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Saturday – Electives!

January 15th, 2000

Hi!

It’s Saturday, January 15, 2000 and time for Electives at ClickSchooling! Today we will focus on Art!

We have found what may be the most wonderful site on the web for an introduction to art called “A. Pintura: Art Detective”.

Pasted below, is the explanation taken directly from the website — but let me tell you, it doesn’t do it justice. The game is fun and interesting and it draws you in to play — even if you know the answer or discover it early on in the game. Just go to the site — you won’t be disappointed. Explanation from the website:

What is It? A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940’s noir detective with a degree in art history. A distraught woman asks you to identify the artist who made a painting she found in her grandfather’s attic. To do so, you must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh. Each example highlights an art concept such as composition, style or subject. The story concludes with an appropriate noirish twist, as the woman’s true identity and motives become apparent.

Art Concepts/Vocabulary:

  • subject
  • portrait
  • style
  • Renaissance
  • abstract
  • composition
  • color
  • perspective
  • brushstroke

Artists featured:

  • Raphael
  • Titian
  • Millet
  • Van Gogh
  • Gauguin
  • Picasso

Diane Keith for ClickSchooling

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Electives – Music

December 18th, 1999

Hi! It’s the weekend and time for Electives at ClickSchooling!

Again, I am allowing the season to direct the activities. Music is such a big part of the holiday season that I couldn’t resist introducing you to a site where you can hear a singing Christmas tree — or click on an ornament to hear your favorite carol.

Now that you’re interested in music – how would you like to learn to read music? This next site has FREE music worksheets that were developed by a mom (you can see her kid’s pictures at this site) who taught her own kids to read music. You can print out the worksheets and use them to teach kids the names of notes on the piano keyboard, the names of notes on the music staff, how to read “rest signs”, how to count rhythm, and much more. Go to: http://www.nspace.com.au/~mvisser/musictut/


 If you really like music worksheets — and would like a full range of FREE worksheets with varying ability levels — go to: http://www.sheetmusic1.com/MUSIC.RACK.HTML
Have fun!

Diane Keith
Homefires~The Journal of Homeschooling

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Weekend Electives

December 11th, 1999

Hi! The weekend at ClickSchooling is reserved for electives. This weekend we have found two websites to recommend to you — one for art and one for music.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tour the various galleries at one of the greatest art museums in the world.
http://www.metmuseum.org/

This section of the MMA is designed to help educators prepare for educational experiences with images of works of art. It also gives teacher notes on how to go about a study of artwork with students of all ages.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/classroom.asp

This section of MMA includes “Looking at Art” which examines composition and themes in art. There are also many more online activities here for children to explore and learn about art.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/index.asp

Music Anyone?
At this site you can play a Piano / Synthesizer / Oscilloscope. Play the piano using your mouse or your computer’s keyboard. As you play the piano, you’ll see the wave forms as well as hear them. The piano can also play a song for you, while you watch.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/play_a_piano.html

Diane Keith
Homefires~The Journal of Homeschooling

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