The Slow and Careful Daily Home School

Monday, April 2, 2018

"Tainted meat!" ... why watching some TV shows will improve a student's vocabulary

Here is the list of words that were studied during Easter vacation and how soe of them were learned.

tainted
"Oh, I heard about that on the Walking Dead. Some guy shouted TAINTED MEAT and it looked like a bad thing. So I think taint means to make something bad."

Other words included
cognates

derivation

roots

prefix

affix

suffix

photo - light

graph - writing

litho - rock

etymology

alliteration
the roaring river runs roughly over rocks

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Teenage Teacher: things i learned from a 14 year old

Here are some things that i learned from a 14 year old

it's okay to fail.
just hit start and play the sequence on the video again. The previous tie he got shot, so this time he knows someone is behind that rock and he is prepared.

turn the wheel
we were driving past MAC ART GALLERY and Ive driven that route for 8 years. He said, "what's that?"
so I stopped. I turned the wheel and parked. we spent 30 minutes talking with Adam an artist and curator of the gallery. Adam had the attitude that the guest is god and he gave us his full attention and even took us behind the warehouse door so we could see other works not yet on display. remarkable. we ended up offering to improve his youtube hits.

pixlr
photos need to be made BIGGER to fit in a box that Apple has determined is appropriate for iTunes. The 14 year old showed me how to use Pixlr.

... thank you

Sunday, November 13, 2016

We watched BLUE PLANET on Netflix and learned about a lot of fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1GE-dujUI&feature=youtu.be

This is the series

There is an adult and a baby inside this jellyfish.

This creature inspired the ALIEN monster

This is a colony of hundreds of thousands of organisms
that work together

large eyes can capture the small amount of light

you can see a silhouette

light underneath can match
the light coming around the fish

this fish can see the difference between biolumniscence
and the light from above

you can see the fish from below

before the color matching

the colors match the light coming from above

before the colors are changed

Publix or McDonald's? Which has the better cost for coca cola?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MrNOWJ4VU&feature=youtu.be

The Analysis of the cost of a soft drink (with 9 teaspoons of sugar in a typical soda)

How Many Teaspoons of Sugar Are There in a Can of Coke ...

www.livestrong.com › Food and Drink

Apr 14, 2015 - As a man, you can have up to 9 teaspoons of sugar daily, or 38 grams of sugar, which is around 150 calories from sugar. No matter your gender, a single 12-ounce can of Coke goes over the maximum sugar allowance for the day.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

"Students should do things because the things seem important and worth doing. Knowledge and skill should be shared rather than hoarded." -- John Holt

Dear Leo

I just read an interesting paragraph from a book

Though Holt later wrote about peace and counseled draft resistance, he described the

submarine as “the best learning community I have ever seen or been part of.” In Instead

of Education he wrote, “We were not on [the submarine] to ‘learn,’ but to help fight the

war. Like millions of other people at the time, we did not talk or think about ‘learning’;

we learned from the demanding work we did together, and we shared our experience and

skill as widely as we could. The submarine experience exemplified two of his central

beliefs about education: that one should not do things in order to learn, but because they

seem important and worth doing, and that knowledge and skill should be shared rather

than hoarded.

I want to put two of those points in big letters

Students should do things because the things seem important and worth doing. Knowledge and skill should be shared rather
than hoarded.
John Holt

THE LINK to the book
Go to 83 books and then go to "A LIFE WORTH LIVING by John Holt"

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