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Friday the 13th (again?)

After 4-4.5 years homeschooling, we might seen that flash of bright light. Before that, it seemed to be just faint twinkling everywhere. Or maybe I should get a better prescription glasses. Maybe...

Application of our Art Journal. Can you spot the number 13?

The new year had make us planning on a new trip abroad, and one of the class I found for LM (and myself, why of course :D) is a gamelan. Youtube has plenty of the videos for it. So what the difference? in a short, Javanese is like ballad song, and Balinese is like party song. Breakup song vs dating song. I think you got it by now. 

So while that become one of new addition in our trip, studying about a topic with language art, social study, math, and a little bit on mind science boiled into one was groundbreaking for us that it flabbergasted me for a half day after. And that happened yesterday, Friday the 13th. Dum dum duuuuuum.

I woke up and not knowing what to do today as well as LM. Then we remembered reading about a post regarding superstition. Well, it’s Friday, it’s the 13th so there you go. 

So we researched and made questionnaire about the oddity of Friday the 13th. After breaking the topic down to Friday then 13, LM were able to understand the reasoning behind the superstition. 

 What took me by surprise was that Friday the 13th superstition has a lot of background in Judeo-Christian history, especially for the Friday part. But 13 also has fair and share. On the other hand, there are some places in the world that looove Friday and 13. Case in point is Italy. 13 means jackpot for them, there is even a phrase for it,  fare tredici. So Italian or those who is fluent in Italian out here, please correct me if I’m wrong.

And LM also found out the Prime number quality of 13. Which then proceed to tol me that Prime numbers are the most boring number in math because it’s the easiest. Should I be proud or should I be scared? 

Snippet on Friday the 13th research by @wingedschool

What did you do on Friday the 13th?

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Out of comfort mold

After pushing LM’s out of comfort zone, the entrepreneur bug has finally caught on. Success!! With a price, now LM keep on asking to sell our bathbombs, even to the neighbor. Whoops, not sorry.

So we used that topic for our open end math. LM decided to draw and it really made it a lot easier, with a lot more dollar sign. Gotta like that dollar sign.

Have you catch the entrepreneur bug? So now you would like to sell bathbombs and get $15.00 or more. Each buyer usually buy 2 bags bathbombs. How many buyer will come to your place? How much does one bag bathbomb cost? How much then do you get after selling?



Whoa, the living expenses were pretty high there or maybe the bathbombs are as big as both palms (watch out LUSH, you got a rival here). :D. After a short break, we chose Kente cloth Legend for our open choice reading. LM needed some review on her long a (a_e). We started on these instant flash card idea a couple session ago. It helped tremendously, since our old flash card disappeared behind the couches (or washed) and our file got stuck inside an unconnectable hard drive ( sobbing on long hours of filing it).

It’s a work in progress now.  

Back again on Kente Cloth, we found out that different places in the world always have this colorful fabric, wonder why there are more muted cloth nowadays. These are pretty!

courtesy of http://www.mariespastiche.com/2015/02/learn-all-about-ghanaian-kente-cloth.html

made by @wingedschool​

It was so great that this story somehow also teaching not just LM, but me, that things just don’t fall into one specific mold (or in this case category). This is a legend from Ghana that is also a folklore/tales and a myth. Had quite a few raised brows before we settled on just having all three. It was challenging before we decided to make flash card about different kind of fictional stories to answer the first question above. We will definitely post it next time so ya’ll can use it too!

LM’s summary on The Legenday Kente Cloth.

We learn to help making the summary by asking Who and What for now. There’s a lot of what, maybe should’ve slip a little bit of how there. Then of course...the Kente Cloth craft!!! Needed : A couple of construction papers. (We use 2 for the straight thick ones and use leftover construction paper for the edging ones) Edging scissors (we use fiskar’s , bought it either on ebay or craigslist, it’s used but awesome). Glue (get it in Staples on back to school sale, 25c for 4, sweet). Color pencils or markers or watercolor and paper tissue (anything left over, optional). 

Cut papers into straight strips about 1-1.5 inch wide, widthwise and lengthwise. Cut really thin strips with edging scissors. Differ the strips with : a. Glue the edging papers on the thick straight ones.  b. Doodle or draw on the other thick straight ones. And/or,  c. Wrung the paper tissue and glue on the thick straight ones. 

Last but not least, start weaving! (we only glued the edges)

Found us in instagram @slothchef. 

LM got a bit frustrated from the paper because unlike fabric or strings it’s less flexible, but we’re learning. If the edges were not cut neatly the end result would have some hanging, but it’s ok. LM decided to cut some of it and left the rest.

We made one with traditional color and another one modern style. Lots of thumbs up for a great introduction to weaving.

Anyone ever do weaving? Care to share your experience?

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Honor the sacrifice.

11th hour of 11th day of 11th month of the year. It is Veterans’ day in USA. Our day begun with much excitement after the sleeping in morning. Flu season is riding on the rising tide and have reached our shore.

It is also mean summer in November, according to SoCal weather. Unfortunately, beach is out of the question for today. So we started with a Veterans’ Day open reading. (Material was made upon LM’s decision).

Not long after, we had a sewing session, to finish a table runner that we started last week for thanksgiving. It’s just like an empty pillow really, for lack of a better word. But ironing with one hand on the back and pressing the pedal for sewing machine felt amazing for LM. With experimenting, mistakes, like letting the machine run all over the fabric, happened.  Oh well. We can undo that.

We found a suminagashi video, so we already know our next project! We will look at Ebru too from Ottoman Empire. Stay tune!

Math open end time. In this story LM will be making a mini sculpture to celebrate today. 

You need to bring sand and rocks to make statue for Veterans’ Day. A cup of sand = 300 gr, pebble = 100 gr, medium rock = 200 gr. Clay and water is provided to glue everything together. You bag can only carry at max 2000 gr. How many each item do you decided to bring?

Hint : use multiplication.

Tips : you could replace zeroes with a letter to make it easy.

Last but not least for this Veterans’ Day, we decided to review on our interviewing skills. Since we are still working on it, this is our first draft.

Maintain eye contact.                        Greetings: Hi/Hello                         Introduce yourself/interviewer           Ask for permission to interview.         Tell the interviewee or people who you ask why you want to interview them. Tell the interviewee how did you find them. Tell the interviewee what do you like about what they are doing. Then ask your written questions one by one.

Does any of you have tips on interviewing skills?