For my new camera.
Love,
Samuel
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Happy New Year!
Whew! sure is a lot of kids!
If you ask Samuel what was the best part of Christmas he will respond "Being with all my cousins". I'm still recuperating....
Reading Out Loud
I just thought MAYBE Samuel would be interested in reading to me if he read his book on the Kindle.
It didn't work....
Faces
Once again Samuel complains as I lead him to the sofa for Art class. We look and study Portrait of a Lady in Yellow by Alesso Baldovinetti, Three-Faced mask, Nigeria, and Senecio by Paul Klee. We are studying Faces and how they are portrayed differently in art.
Throughout the 5 minutes of class, Samuel is disgruntled and disinterested. Then I read the instructions for the activity to follow and he becomes an attentive student. I bring out the canvas, tempera paints, new brushes, a pencil and the sound of Mozart's music in the background...
His final words to me? "Mommy, NOW I feel like an artist. I LOVE art class. It is my favorite!"
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Ohio is a Piano!
Samuel has been sick for the past 2 days and he is VERY clingy. So I have stayed close with laptop in hand researching geography stuff for home-school and piano stuff for the studio. And I found this!
In the words of creator Andy Woodruff, "the premise is simply that each of the 88 piano keys is assigned to a single Ohio county. How the keys are mapped to the counties depends on a specified data attribute: the notes and counties are ordered by that attribute and then linked to one another. For example, if the chosen attribute is population, the county with the lowest population is assigned the lowest-frequency piano key, the county with the highest population is assigned the highest-frequency piano key, and so on. The data I have here are a little out of date, but that doesn’t matter for demonstrating the idea."
Updated or not, it is a really cool idea. Click Away!