Starfish and Poetry

Zoe started off with some Life of Fred Algebra.
Then she wrote three poems with instructions from the back of the MCTLA poetry book.
Then she read a chapter on the history of New Netherlands aka New York and New Jersey.
She loved dissecting a star fish for science. She was not squeamish at all.
She did her Professor Carol music history homework.
For lunch she watched a British television show called Primeval. It is from the people who did Walking With Dinosaurs. It is fictional but has dinosaurs in it.
Then for Mommy Time she wanted to take turns reading from Midsummer Night's Dream.
Then she read 4 chapters from Uncle Tom's Cabin and did a little narration on it afterwards.
Lastly she spent an hour working on her piano piece for the Stickley competition.
After homeschooling she had her Pet Shop dolls perform Shakespeare's MSND.
and she helped her father make a google site for his music and created a google presentation... for me.

If you are squeamish about dissections don't look below
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Math - factorials and exponents

Language Arts - Read bit of of U.S. Grant memoirs and looked on a globe the geography around the Aegean Sea, and created a Works Cited page for her DNA essay.

History - the Dutch colony in America. Identifying primary and secondary sources.

Science - Hatching brine shrimp for her microscope. And compared a Zoe hair to a Charlotte hair under the microscope. And looked at a Cicada leg.

Japanese - Describing people using nouns and modifying clauses

Reading - Finished The Minotaur in Nathanial Hawthorn's Tanglewood Tales and began reading Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing

Art - painting

Music History - OnlineG3 Webinar The effects of the printing press on music and the gramophone.

Lightening Literature - Walt Whitman and Voice Thread on Leaves of Grass.

Piano - practicing for Stickley competition.

Zoe's 9th Birthday and Slumber Party

A salt snowball from the Mojave desert from C.T.


Matching Outfit and clothes for American Girl Rebecca from Grandmere and Grandpere


Mircoscope from Tante Juliet


Look of surprise at the Night at the Museum gift.


Dissection Kit


Cool but ewwww! :)


SLUMBER PARTY

Happy Birthday Zoe!!!

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Learning this week

Math
Platonic Solids- (prisms,dodecahedron, tetrahedron, anti-prisms)
probability
two problem-two variable algebra, and graphing

Language Arts
Online writing seminar through Davidson Young Scholars, informal, formal, first person, third person, second person, and writing great openings.
Wrote poem with two quatrains and a couplet for Neuroscience Poetry Contest
Five paragraph essay on DNA


Science
Researched and wrote a poem on the functions of the Right Brain
Sharks
The science of spending and saving
DNA

Piano
Study several different style pieces.
Castanents by Catherine Rollin (Spanish style)
Ragtime by Christopher Norton (jazz style)
Gavotte by Telemann(a dance)
Arabia by Alexandre Tansman(Arabian flavor)
Sailing by Moonlight by Joan Last

ART
Painted a pastel picture inspired by a piano piece. (inspired by her Sailing by Moonlight piano piece)


Matryoshka dolls



THEATRE
Acted out A Midsummer Night's Dream with her dolls
Watched live performance of Romeo and Juliet by Actors From The London Stage

READING
The Lightning Thief (again, with Pere)
Tanglewood Tales - Nathanial Hawthorne (with Mere)
Midsummer's Night Dream
Greek Myths (by D'Aulaire - again)
Starting City of Ember, Gregor the Overlander, and The Boggart.

Ballet and Tap dance class
Hebrew and Japanese lessons

MISC.
Baked banana bread with Pere
Played Quiddler, and Quelf with Mere
Watching Dr. Who
Chatting online and emailing with friends

Technology Rocks!

So I live in a small town and the gifted population is rather smaller than was I could avail myself to in Los Angeles.

I have been able to stay connected with my friends back in Los Angeles and new friends I have made through national gifted organizations via blogs, online bulletin boards and groups, Facebook, Instant Messenger, and Skype. I like those as well a as a phone call.

Zoe really enjoys participating with her friends in her online classes and forums, chatting online, emailing, and Skype playdates.

Now if only we could invent the teleportation machine...

outpouring

Zoe has been writing poetry all week. In her Lightening Lit class she is studying Shakespeare's Sonnets and she wrote a rather nice sonnet yesterday.

She is also taking an online class with Michael Clay Thompson this week. She is really enjoying it. He is really teaching them to think about poetry, to listen to the sound, think about the choices the poet makes.

She has written at least two poems a day in that class. She likes the assignments MCT is giving her.

Then, this afternoon is wrote a piano song and recorded it on Garage Band.