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I had a minor surgery today. When I came home, he had done his ENTIRE Handwriting without Tears workbook. Ugh... 😑
We did his Sonlight B readings + Timeline Figures.
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https://virtualpiano.net/?instr=classical-piano
My kids have spent so much time on this website. You can play this virtual piano with a mouse or the keys on your computer keyboard. It can handle chords and sharps/flats. There is also an option to change instruments to different kinds of pianos, the organ, harps, woodwind instruments, brass instruments, etc.
There is even virtual sheet music that you can click on and it loads above the virtual piano. So you can play the sheet music using the keyboard.
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Our school materials seem like a perpetual mess, so I'm trying this now.
Today, we visited the Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
Here's the site: https://kimbellart.org
Admission to the regular collection is free. There are special, traveling exhibits which require a fee for entry. The museum itself is very small, quiet and simple. There is an app that gives an audio tour of the collection.
Most of the artwork is concentrated in galleries on the second floor. There are sculptures from ancient Egypt and Babylon all the way to paintings from Picasso. The collection is small, but incredible. This is our favorite art museum in this part of Texas.
The best exhibit in this museum is a painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (The Torment of Saint Anthony, 1487) that he painted when he was about thirteen years old. https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-200901
There is also a Claude Monet painting (Weeping Willow, 1918-1919): https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-199602
A Rembrandt (Bust of a Young Jew, 1663): https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-197704
A Picasso (Man with a Pipe, 1911): https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-196608
Mondrian Art (Abstraction, 1939-1942): https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-199405
There is an interactive app for teens that I wish I would've known about before we went to the museum: https://kimbellart.org/participate/interact#kimbellteenartscope
My art-phobic 14 year-old really enjoyed this field trip.
UPDATE: After doing some online research, we've figured out that these are Infusoria. They eat phytoplankton. They love decaying plant matter and you can actually culture these (which we accidentally did).
Two weeks ago, the 14 year-old and I collected pond water samples from a local pond. When we looked through the microscope the same day the water was collected, there were a few protists on the slide. We placed the remaining water sample into a jar with decaying plant matter. The water sat unattended for two weeks.
Today, we made new slides of the water to see if anything has changed. There was a dramatic increase in microscopic life. Here are a couple of videos of what we saw under the microscope.
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