Some of the pieces snapped, even though the kids were careful when removing them from the wood sheet. Fortunately, a hot glue gun was able to remedy the breaks (unfortunately, a hot glue gun always = burns!).
However, in the end it was all worth it. The kids were quite pleased with their creations. We took them outside, to their "natural habitat" for a photo opp (although a pond would have been more 'natural' for Annabelle's plesiosaur).
LIKE A ROLLING STONE: Today's rock history class for us was a couple of lectures about Bob Dylan. We learned a lot. For starters, CJ and Annabelle learned their brother Kennedy's middle name is Dylan, after Bob Dylan.
Not surprisingly, the lecture touched upon Dylan's no-turning-back performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, where, during a performance on the main stage, he had the audacity to go electric and play with a band. Branded a 'sell out' by some, he was loudly booed. We found a promo for "The Other Side of the Mirror Bob Dylan : Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965" where the crowd could be heard turning on him. Here's a link to that short trailer: http://youtu.be/S1TKUk9nXjk. (Immediately after watching the trailer, I hopped to our library's Web site and put the DVD on hold for us - can't wait to see it!)
http://youtu.be/OeP4FFr88SQ
And then we had to watch an all folk-star cast of Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan sing "Blowin' in the Wind" at Newport in 1963.
PLAYING POMPEII: I feel like most of today's post is about how much I love the Internet, but really, we use it so extensively for so many things, including how to figure out how to play some of the songs the kids want to learn on guitar. Today's project was "Pompeii," by a group called Bastille. We looked at several sites where people post the chords they've supposedly figured out on their own, and found many conflicting versions. Not sure which was best, or easiest, I decided to hop over to YouTube to see if someone had posted a tutorial. Lucky for us, I quickly found a video by a user who calls himself onlineguitarschool.
Not only did he teach the kids which four chords to use in the song, I loved the time he took to talk about technique - how to play it well. Bravo! If you're interested ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yBnA1MO7nw
SPACE TOURIST TIPS: We returned a stack of books to the library today, including the hilarious 'how to' book, "How Do You Burp in Space?" by Susan E. Goodman. If you're planning on becoming a space tourist in the future, you'd do well to hit this book up first.
It proved to be a source of much giggling and many an "ah ha!" as it has traveled around in the backseat with us for the past couple of weeks.
WORD OF THE DAY: Annabelle was practicing playing The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" on guitar this a.m. and after singing the first line she stopped and asked, "What's pataphysical?"
Heck if I knew. Thank heaven for Wikipedia. From it, we learned:
And then we had to watch an all folk-star cast of Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan sing "Blowin' in the Wind" at Newport in 1963.
PLAYING POMPEII: I feel like most of today's post is about how much I love the Internet, but really, we use it so extensively for so many things, including how to figure out how to play some of the songs the kids want to learn on guitar. Today's project was "Pompeii," by a group called Bastille. We looked at several sites where people post the chords they've supposedly figured out on their own, and found many conflicting versions. Not sure which was best, or easiest, I decided to hop over to YouTube to see if someone had posted a tutorial. Lucky for us, I quickly found a video by a user who calls himself onlineguitarschool.
Not only did he teach the kids which four chords to use in the song, I loved the time he took to talk about technique - how to play it well. Bravo! If you're interested ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yBnA1MO7nw
SPACE TOURIST TIPS: We returned a stack of books to the library today, including the hilarious 'how to' book, "How Do You Burp in Space?" by Susan E. Goodman. If you're planning on becoming a space tourist in the future, you'd do well to hit this book up first.
WORD OF THE DAY: Annabelle was practicing playing The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" on guitar this a.m. and after singing the first line she stopped and asked, "What's pataphysical?"
Heck if I knew. Thank heaven for Wikipedia. From it, we learned:
'Pataphysics (French: 'pataphysique) is a philosophy or media theory dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. The concept was coined by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), who defined 'pataphysics as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments".[1]A practitioner of 'pataphysics is a pataphysician or a pataphysicist.Speaking of words, earlier this week I wondered aloud why a leg cramp is called a Charlie (Charley?) horse. Turns out no one is 100 percent certain as to its origin, but there are commonalities in citing its origin, specifically baseball players and a gimpy white horse named Charley. Wordorigins.org has about the best account I could find on the topic: http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/charley_horse/
thanks for the definition of "pataphysics" - now if you could just define the definition for me.
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