Category Archives: Educational Television

Lego Nativity

December 1, 2008 – 3:20 pm
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Opera and classical music via Bugs Bunny

June 13, 2008 – 2:57 pm

Yes, I did. I had him on YouTube this morning looking at different clips of Bugs Bunny classics like “Kill the Wabbit”. He loves classic cartoons and classical music, so I figured why not? Learning has to be fun sometimes or both of our heads would explode. His favorite was my favorite: Presenting What’s Opera [...]

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Penguin followup

November 25, 2007 – 10:06 pm

Well tonight we got an impromptu follow up to the penguin learning session. March of the Penguins is on tonight. It just came on the Animal Planet channel. My son is engrossed already. He even said “look those are like the penguins we saw on the computer”. I love it when it all comes together. [...]

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Decency in broadcasting

September 20, 2007 – 12:16 am

A new bill for decency in broadcasting was introduced to the House of Representatives. It’s all about trying to get television to clean up its act. Every broadcaster is being put under spotlight to see if the content they are presenting will be harmful to children. I, for one, am happy that someone is finally [...]

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I can glue it myself!

April 3, 2007 – 11:34 am

That he can. Yesterday we were doing some follow up work to watching Blue’s Clues. He is adept at gluing and figuring things out. He did sequencing, matched similar letters, and he matched sounds with letters. Watching Blue’s Clues was a joy yesterday. They were working with phonics and letter recognition. Taz was spot on [...]

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Slacking off

January 24, 2007 – 8:02 am

We haven’t been doing too much by way of formal training. Unschooling is fun that way. You don’t have to run around making plans all the time. We have been reading a few books of his choosing. One talks about the inner workings of the body. He is fascinated by the inner human form. I [...]

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Our Christmas projects

December 14, 2006 – 1:42 pm

Okay so we did make the angels for the tree, only 2 of them, and they are made from a spoon and a rag. My son decided to make multi-cultural angels, though, so one of them has a black face. We didn’t have any other marker colors out, so I guess he thought that was [...]

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Yesterday’s fervor & Today’s task

December 1, 2006 – 12:59 am

My son had the wind of inspiration with him yesterday as he breezed through about six pages of his new workbook from Brighter Vision and helped me make stand up animal cutouts. He was still asking for more workbook pages when I got tired! His phonics skills are getting stronger. He only made a few [...]

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latest stuff

August 27, 2006 – 3:00 pm

He hasn’t been too into working in his books, only his video games. Reader Rabbit Bouncedown to Balloontown is his favorite. It is teaching him relational things like big, bigger, biggest. He has a good grasp of that. He decided to write his numbers in one of his workbooks. He also came to me to [...]

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