Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes

Multiple Intelligences: Random

Multiple Intelligences: Random

 

Disney Imagineering In A  Box

 

LEGO Engineering Workshop

 

Skype A Scientist

 

LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems

 

#GADBookClub : Actor Josh Gad (Olaf from Frozen) is reading bedtime stories live on his Twitter every night.

 

National Geographic Kids

 

PBS Kids: Design Squad Global 

 

Scholastic Learn At Home : Day by day projects to keep kids thinking, learning, and growing.

Multiple Intelligences: Just About All of Them

Learn Something New 

 

Learning something new doesn't need to cost money. You can keep your brain active and learn a new language in just five minutes a day. Perhaps you would prefer to learn how to draw or code?

 

Learn a new language in as little as five minutes every day. DuoLingo will even let you set up a "classroom" so you can have accounts for kids to study. 

 

Drops is app that makes learning a new language fun.

 

Yale University is offering a free course online - The Science of Well-Being - that teaches you how to be happier.

 

Take a University Art Class - Artsy.net has a list of 10 classes you can take for free online.

 

Coursera offers free online courses from many of the world's top universities in a wide variety of subjects

 

 Become an Artist with Art ala Carte on YouTube.

 

 Code Academy offers a free online coding course.

Multiple Intelligence: Musical Rhythmical

Online Concerts and Shows 

 

You can stream nightly concerts and Broadway as we all ‘shelter-in-place’ 

 

15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home

 

Stream the Met Opera nightly for free

 

 Check out STAGEIT for access to "Shut in and Sing" events and online concerts.

 

NPR is keeping a live list of Virtual Concerts which is updated daily.

Multiple Intelligence-Virtual Museum Tours

Virtual Museum Tours  Many museums have closed their doors but they are open for business online. Here's a list of museums that have put their collections online for you to enjoy.   1.       British Museum in London   2.       Guggenheim Museum, New York   3.       National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   4.       Musée d'Orsay, Paris   5.       National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul   6.       Pergamon Museum, Berlin   7.       Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   8.       Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam   9.       J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles   10.    Uffizi Gallery, Italy   11.    Museu de Arte, São Paulo   12.    The Louvre, Paris   13.    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Multiple Intelligences 2

This post follows the format of this YouTube Video Multiple Intelligences 2. (Clink the Link)

Objectives:(What We Gone Do Is)
Review Multiple Intelligences Video 1
Introduce Musical Rhythmical

1. Create a chart listing the 8 intelligences in rows on the left. List days of the week in columns at the top.  (See illustration in MI 1 post below.) 

2. Naturalist: Take a photo of a particular tree, flowers, shrubbery, etc. Wait a few days, then take a photo from the same vantage point. Observe the changes. This can be a year long activity as the trees changes with each season. 

3. Verbal-Linguistic: Read everyday. A fourth-grader should read about 40 minutes each day. If this seems too much in the beginning, start with 20 minutes and add 5 minutes each day. 

4. Intrapersonal: Write in a journal. An 'ABC Journal" is one of the easiest way to get started. 
    A: apple muffins
    B: bounced on trampoline
    C: Carla-counselor in There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom
    D: Dunked donut in milk
    E: Etc . . . 

Children don't have to write in complete sentences. Journals don't necessarily need to be corrected for spelling.
But, sentence starters can be used: 
The best part of today was ____________________.
I like this about me. ________________________.

Visual-Spatial Quote:
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.  ---Pablo Picasso

"Purple"
In first grade, Mr. Lohr said my purple teepee wasn't realistic enough, that purple was no color for a tent, that purple was a color for people who died, that my drawing wasn't good enough to hang with the others. I walked back to my seat counting the swish-swish-swish of my baggy corduroy trousers. With a black crayon, nightfall came to my purple tent in the middle of an afternoon.
In second grade, Mr. Barta said, "Draw anything." He didn't care what. I left my paper blank, and when he came around to my desk,  my heart beat like a tom-tom while he touched my head with his big hand and in a soft voice said, "The snowfall. How clean and white and beautiful. You are an artist. "

MUSICAL-RHYTHMICAL:

If you want children to remember something, teach it through or with music. One of the best ways to build a child's math reasoning is with music. Music helps us make connections. Have you ever heard a song that caused you to flashback to years ago? You remembered where you were? Who you were with? What you were wearing? Music is powerful in how it can stir up memories. It helps to make connections. 

The power of music can heal the body. It has been used for treatment of migraines, substance abuse, trauma, Parkinson's Disease, anxiety , high blood pressure. . . it is used during childbirth, with cancer patients . . . used to help calm down that ADHD student . . . 

Music can affect your mood. It can make you feel happy, enchanted, inspired, wistful, excited, empowered, comforted . . . have you ever turned up the volume to your tunes while cleaning house or working out, or running? 

Armies have marched to war with music. We lull our babies to sleep with lullabies. Stories have been handed down from generation to generation through chants. Cultures communicated with drum. 

When scheduling your day, offer your children choices from different genres of music:

Classical
Jazz
Blues
Patriotic
Rag Time
Piano
Acoustic guitar
Indian flute
Gregorian chants
Latin pop
Broadway hits
Gospel
And on and on. . .

Example:
Classical-Moonlight Sonata (Piano Sonata #14) and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Do some research on Beethoven. Did you know many times he dipped his head into cold water before composing? That he began losing his hearing at age 26? That he sawed off the legs of his piano to feel the vibrations and composed music with his ear to the floor? That his handwriting was so bad that musicologists had difficulty authenticating his works?

The 'assignment' doesn't have to be anymore in depth than this to being with. 

Three of my students' favorite pieces were:

'Moonlight Sinatra'
'Beethoven's Fifth Sympathy'
'Canon Indeed by Johann Tacobell'

My students were making connections with words they already knew to new words: Sonata, Symphony, Pachelbel...
The Velcro Technique of Learning and Teaching.

Music is the Universal Language. We all understand it in some way or another. 

 

 

 

Multiple Intelligence - Interpersonal: Establish a Routine

 One of the most important things that you can do to make children feel safe is to establish as much of a routine in their lives as possible. Not only children, but adults feel the most secure when their lives are predictable. When adults provide environments that feel safe, children learn that they can trust others to take care of them and meet their needs, so they become free to relax and explore their world. 

Many parents are now finding that their usual routine of getting ready for work and their children ready for school in the morning has been drastically changed. Instead of a very structured school day, children are finding themselves probably with their parents working from home. 

Enter...Stage Right: Some type of schedule for about TWELVE hours at least FIVE days a week! Impossible?

No. 

 

Some children, and a few adults who I know, do not yet fully understand the concept of time, so they do not order their lives by hours and minutes, but rather by the events. When events happen in the same order every day, children have a better understanding of their world, and therefore feel more secure.  Being at school provides this by providing a regular schedule giving children a way to order and organize their lives. When children AND adults know what to expect, they become more confident in both themselves and the world around them. For the most part, know they will not be confronted with unfamiliar tasks for which they are unprepared, 

Routines also help children develop self-control because they know they have to wait until a certain time to do a particular activity. A regular schedule fosters responsibility and independence because children will be able to perform more activities on their own if they have done the same activities many times before in the same environment.

 

A routine is especially important during particularly difficult times such as what we are all experiencing now. It’s probably safe to say that we are all undergoing a change in our routines which may cause varying degrees of  apprehension, especially for young people. 

 

During ‘normal’ times, we probably had specific morning, after school,

and bedtime  routines. But what about now? When there is a routine in place, there can be little argument because the expectations for behavior are taken for granted. Therefore, a major benefit of establishing a Monday-Friday routine is that you will cut down on stress for yourself. Keeping to a routine may sound like an impossible task when you are overwhelmed with balancing a constantly changing schedule for multiple members of your household. However, even implementing the smallest routine can make a big difference.