Ok... so its our second week of school, which gives you a good timeline on when my last post was!

We are in Konos Vol. 1 Attentiveness using the virtual Co-op. We are doing a lot of activities on sound/music/etc. Here is our day.

First we wrote poems about the sounds of fall. I left this up to the kids' interpretations, since I was just happy to have them be creative with their writing and keep it short and sweet!

Did anyone ever see "Deep Thoughts... by Jack Handy" on Saturday Night Live?

I think my 6-in-7-more-days daughter should get a job writing for them!! Here goes:

When the sun is up

I will wake up

in the morning time.

When the leaves change colors

I will pick them up off of the ground

and crunch them.

When I bring Ricotta outside

to play with her in the leaves,

she rolls around in the piles

and looks like ice cream

covered in sprinkles.

 (Side note: Ricotta is our 2 year old Great Pyrenees female)

My 9 year old daughter:

Autumn

Crunchy, crispy autumn leaves

underneath my cold feet.

Neighbors laughing,

Kids playing

in the autumn leaves.

My 11 year old son:

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The wind is blowing.

The leaves are falling.

Kids are playing.

I wish winter would never come.

Short and sweet! They really had fun writing these today.

Studied the sound barrier, looked up YouTube videos of planes breaking the sound barrier - sonic boom and all with the cone-shaped vapor cloud. VERY cool!

We talked about the Doppler Effect since we live right next to the train crossings... they immediately knew what I was talking about! We also decided that the sound you hear like at a Nascar race when the cars zoom around the track where the pitch is higher before it gets to you, then lower as it moves away...we decided that was the same thing (Doppler Effect)... even though I couldn't find any info to back it up online.

We tried to find info online on how they put music on tape or CD, but could not find ANY information other than how to burn a CD.

This afternoon for a break from the book type stuff, we took apart an old rotary dial phone and identified the receiver, microphone, speaker, bell/notifier, and saw the other mechanics and wiring.  

I think that's it for today.............

After our slow start (I was cleaning in the pantry when I must have sprayed cleaner stuff on exposed wiring - made a big loud pop sound, smoke, etc... had an electrician come...can't do school while a fix-it guy is here.) I think we got a lot accomplished today!