Mr Morton – School House Rock

I LOVE School House Rock.  There’s even a musical about School House Rock!  Click here to see what it’s about.

 

Really cute.  I want the Math Wiz to do it one day.  Or maybe when I become a teacher I’ll do it.  Because even though I have this hunka-hunka-burnin’ love for History, I have a relatively strong background in (my brother says that I am the definition of) theatre.  I will end up doing it eventualy.  Quite possibly.  It’s actually inevitable.

Anyway, here’s an equally cute song about subjects and predicates.  It reminds me of my friend’s music (he’s a composer.  And pretty good too!  Click here.

Lovely Lovely Lovely.

Anyway, after a good chunk of unsolicited advertizing.  Here is Mr. Morton.

Such a sweet man!  And such a good message too.  Feminism for the win!

Piano Pooch

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The Math Wiz would probably die a little inside if he knew someone he knew learned piano off the internet.  Being a Math and Music Wiz and all.  The only reason I call him the Math Wiz is that “Math and Music Wiz” is way too big of a mouthful to say all the time.  So let it be known here that He does music quite well.  Professionally even.

Today’s game dabbles in my instrument of choice.  Badly by the way.  I’m not particularly phenomenal at the piano.  Piano Pooch hops along the keys and you have to remember which ones he hit in which order to play the Chinese New Year Concerto.  It’s a bit hard, but looks like it’s meant for younger children so I’d play this one yourself before unleashing your kids/students on it!

Look at Piano Pooch!  All decked out in traditional Chinese garb, cocked and a the ready to help you move along on the fantastic journey called “music exploration!”

See, he hops along the keys and you have to rebmember which order they go in so you can learn the piano concerto.  The keys are the same as you’d find on a real keyboard/piano, so it’s easily transposable to a real life keyboard.

Hop hop hop.  After each level, you win a composer’s bust too! 

 

 

 

Look!  I won Liszt!

 

 

PIANO POOCH -- LINK HERE

Reccommended Age: Grade 3-6

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On a side note, I went to water my plants today.  Remember?  From my Food Glorious Food post?  Well guess what.  My black thumb didn’t get a chance to kill the plants.  The game has been discontinued!  I failed to notice that it was only for a limited time and a contest.  I was really quite disheartened to see that it was down.  But what can you do?  Those Who Be at The Internet make the rules, and not me.)

Sadly yours,

Wild Wild West! – Reading Game

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Saddle up your horses, we’re going for a ride!

This was a cute game, meant for the yung’uns.  You are a little sheriff, and you have to find the outlaws and lasso them into submission!  Except there’s a trick.  The outlaws say the DEFINITION of their name, instead of their name and you have to puzzle it out!  The game is simple, and fun using only the left and right arrow keys (to move) and the spacebar (to lasso).

I skimmed over the instructions the first time and was a bit confused about them.  Even after I read through them a second time a bit slower, I was still a bit confused, but I definitely got the hang of it once I started playing.

Yaarg… There be my villan!  His name be “Vacate”.  I be catchin’ him soon.  Aarrr….

Except for the part that this is a cowboy game.

There I am on the top in the white cowboy hat.  Below me are the bad guys, and I have to find the one called “Vacate”.

 

 

Catching a villan with my lasso!  PS: Is it Lass-ooo or Lass-oh?

 

 

Look!  I caught him!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILD WILD WEST GAME – LINK HERE

Recommended Age: Grades 2-4

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Food, Glorious Food!

Oh no!  Miss B’s game was taken down off the internet!  Click here to read her shocking discovery.  Read on to hear about how much fun Miss B had. 

Miss B. does not have a green thumb.  Miss B. doesn’t even have a black thumb.   She has more like a black stare.  Or a black presence.  Either way, plants die when Miss B. is around.

But not here!  Miss B. is a gardening FIEND!

You do need to sign up for this site, but it’s so cute and it’s something all your own

Miss B. finds Picture Three to be the most appropriate to her outward appearance.  She also does not want e-mails.  How convenient! 

Look at the cute plants I’m growing!  This site is dedicated to letting kid’s realize where their food comes from and the responsibility that comes from growing your own foods.

You have to water your plants so that they grow.  They actually take approximately the same amount of time to grow as real vegetables!  In 42 days, if I don’t virtually kill them…

Watering my pumpkin seeds…. unlike real life they talk to you and tell you when they’re angry or need more, or if you’re doing the right thing.  Unlike real life where you never know until they a) don’t sprout or b) turn brown.

This is a good, cute game, but it’s definitely something that takes time.  It’d be good for homeschooler’s curriculum or kindergarten.  There will be more updates as I grow things.

But with my luck, they probably won’t grow…

 

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD – LINK HERE

Recommended Age: Kindergarten to Grade 3

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Updates later!

Egyptian Mummy Maker

The Royal London Museum had many piece on tour to different museums and it chronicled different cultures throughout the decades beginning with Early Man, working it’s way through the Egyptian period to the rise and fall of the Holy Roman Empire all the way to the Pacific cultures and Asia.  Concluding the exhibit was “where we are today” with pictures of popular culture and artifacts from today. 

This game instantly reminds me of when I went to the museum in the summer.  We were in line (the Math Wiz and I) and in front of us was this little girl and her mom.  She was talking away about what they were going to see and how excited she was about living in Victoria.  We enter the museum and she makes a beeline straight for the Egypt part of the exhibit. 

I kind of meandered my way through Early Man, not particularly liking the early bits of world history.  The replica of the Rosetta stone was neat… but that’s beside the point.  This little girl hopped right on up to this sarcophagus and starts looking at it.  The museum volunteer starts asking her a lot of questions.  Like, “Who do you think this coffin belongs to?”

“Just by looking at the SARCOPHAGUS you can tell it’s someone royal because of the bird that’s on it and how it’s made.  You can see the gold parts along the top and …”

This little girl rocked.  And I mean really rocked.  The museum volunteer was correcting her along the way “We were told by the London museum that it’s not a royal person, but it was definitely someone wealthy.”

The mom stood there smiling and then gave this girl a big hug.  “She’s my little Egyptologist.  Sometimes I think she knows more than the museum curators.”

This mom rocked.

Either way, the entire situation pretty much rocked.

On with the game.

LINK HERE

It’s an incredibly informative game. So packed full of information, that if I didn’t know what a lot of the terms were I might be a bit lost.  This game is probably for someone a little more Egypt inclined than your average school child, but in the big picture you can learn a LOT in a short time.  The game talks a lot about the cultural importance of Egyptian mummy-making, and why they did each individual step.

You are an assistant to the chief embalmer in Egypt.  You make all the decisions toward a particular person’s mummy.  Get it wrong, and the person will not  be admitted to the afterlife and is doomed to be in purgatory not being alive and not being dead.  There’s quite a lot of weight on your shoulders!

 

There is no holding back in this game for sure.  It details how they extracted the brain and which tool is used.

 

 

 

Very graphic.  All with attributes of Ancient Egyptian art too.  That is a brain pouring into a bowl. 

 

 

 

Picking which organs should be left in the body prior to mummification.

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Egyptian hieroglyphics.  For something fun, but relatable to this topic, click here: Hieroglyphic Alphabet Translator Make your own name into hieroglyphics!

 

 

Miss B had fun with this one!

 

MUMMY MAKER GAME – CLICK  HERE!

Recommended Age: Grades 3-7

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Related Links:

Woodlands Jr. School in the UK – Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt for Kids