Mo Shuile Togam Suas

Since this has been an unschooly week I’ll just summarize the eclectic odds and ends we have been working on.
Art
Kieron is doing gif animations now. He downloaded a program to try and add music and sound effect midis to the “movie”. So now he is working on that [...]

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This is actually about Wednesday, which is confusing.
The little ones went on a literacy spree yesterday. We got the Handwriting without Tears catalog in the mail a couple of days ago and both Aidan and Paddy have been taking turns marking it up, tracing the sample pictures and having a lot [...]

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In the past week my older kids have watched a couple of fairly deep movies with their dad.   Citizen Kane (they’ve seen this one before) and Mildred Pierce.   Like serious books, serious movies bring psychological insights and exploration of  universal themes.     Movies have an auditory and visual language,  not the written [...]

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Sean:

Math
Ways of the Woodland Folk
History of English Literature
Landscape with Dragons (we don’t agree with all of O’Brien’s thesis about “gnosticism” and some of the books and movies that he pans are favorites of ours but the book raises interesting questions which I think are appropriate for children at the middle-school/high school age to ponder – [...]

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I think that JoVE has it right in Accessible Poetry when she talks about what accessibility is to a child:
…A Midsummer Night’s Dream was accessible to Tigger (at age 7) because it is about fairies. And the Lady of Shallot is about knights and ladies. A lot of what children read is incomprehensible to them, [...]

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