“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Crisp Fall Day
We’re spending the day at the Dallas Arboretum looking at their houses o’ gourds. We also may do this great fall mixed-media art project from That Artist Woman. I’ve saved my egg shells and everything. It’s a new month so new songs. Our folk song is an Irish tune called “The Rose of Tralee.” […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Can’t stop laughing
A new month brings us new songs (and a new picture). We’re still studying Copley. We’re looking at “The Death of the Earl of Chatham” which depicts the collapse of William Pitt the Elder during a debate in the House of Lords on the American Revolution. How weird must that have been for the American […]
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Fine Arts Friday: First Term Tunes
Ah, September and the back to school bliss even when we don’t go to school. We’re starting new everything this month, so I thought I’d cover the music we’re listening to this week. Our composer this term is Franz Joseph Haydn. We read this short bio geared to kids, and we found Austria on the […]
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Fine Arts Friday: sing and dance!
We’re still off the Ambleside schedule since they break for July and August, so we’re picking up some songs we missed. This month, we’re adding some folk dance to our folk song. The song is “Mairi’s Wedding” (or “Marie’s Wedding”), and it’s a Scottish tune not even a hundred years old. John Bannerman wrote it for […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Random
Mid-July isn’t the best time for thinking. Frankly it’s too dang hot to engage any muscle, including the brain. But you can listen to music and look at pretty paintings without much effort, so today’s fine arts post is a bit of random beauty. We haven’t faithfully followed the Ambleside schedule for folk songs, so […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Birthday happenings
Today is MTG’s birthday, and he’s taken the day off. We’re going to see the decidedly unfine-artsy “Star Trek: Into Darkness.” Then we’ll probably take the kids to the nature preserve or something similar, and I’ll make him a birthday cobbler. That is to say, we aren’t going to be concentrating on a lot of […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Folk Songs
The idea of teaching fine arts to our children can be intimidating. The term calls to mind images of well-lit studios, beautiful (and expensive) instruments, and advanced knowledge and skills that require an expert to teach. (That’s not actually true, as I’ll demonstrate with my exquisite in-expertise in coming posts, but we’ll save that for […]
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Songs of my grandfather
I’ve been thinking of my grandpa a lot lately. My grandma gave us his recliner and my parent’s were down (up? over?) a couple of weeks ago to deliver it. I can just see him propped up “reading” the newspaper with eyes closed. I have a screensaver that scrolls through my digital photo albums. Pictures […]
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