Saturday, February 16, 2019
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Ancient Greece - Can Your Child Learn From Past to Build A Better Future?
Acropolis, Greece
Ancient Agora, Birth of Democracy, Athens
Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece
Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, Greece
Ancient and Modern Olympics, Basia in Olympia and Athens, Greece, 2019
Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece
Realm
of History, The Future Lies in the Past
www.realmofhistory.com A Tour of Ancient Athens
Greek
Mythology
Greek
Gods
Twelve
Olympians
Percy
Jackson Greek Gods, book to read, 314 pages
Greek
Mythology
12
Olympian Gods
Greek
Gods Explained In 12 Minutes
Time
Stamps: Zeus 1:55
Poseidon 2:43
Hades 3:36
Hera 4:44
Athena 5:43
Ares 6:57
Aphrodite 7:44
Artemis 8:35
Apollo 9:05 Hermes
9:32
Demeter 9:54
Hephaestus 10:57
Dionysus 11:24
The
Mount Olympus: The Home of Gods - Mythological Curiosities - See U in History
See
U in History / Mythology
Monday, February 11, 2019
Historical Fiction - The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
"Super funny. Simply supercalifragilisticexpialidocious /ˌso͞opərˌkaləˌfrajəˌlistikˌekspēˌaləˈdōSHəs/
Read this book." - Basia P.
Read this book." - Basia P.
Sock Monkey by Basia P.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis,
published in 1995, won the Newbery Honor, the best prize the writers can get
for children's literature in the United States.
Timing is very important in the book - the story takes place during the Civil Rights Movement. The Watsons are an African-American family living in
Flint, Michigan (Up North), but they decide to take a road trip to
Birmingham, Alabama (Down South), where its youngest member is involved in one
of the darkest incidents in American history.
To read more go to https://www.shmoop.com/watsons-birmingham/
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Happy Lunar 2019 – The Year of The Pig
Pig Mask By Basia P
Pig
Occupying
the last position in 12 Chinese Zodiac animals, Pig is mild and a lucky animal
representing carefree fun, good fortune and wealth. Personality traits of the
people born under the sign of the Pig are happy, easygoing, honest, trusting,
educated, sincere and brave.
The possible dark sides the Pig people are
stubbornness, naive, over-reliant, self-indulgent, easy to anger and
materialistic. They are sometimes regarded as being lazy.
Corner Pig Book Marks by Basia P
Chinese: 猪 (Zhū)
Earthly
Branches: Hai (亥)
Energy: Yin
Five
Elements: Water (Shui)
Lucky
Things
Lucky
Flowers: hydrangea, pitcher plant, marguerite
Lucky
Gemstone: Ruby
Lucky
Numbers: 2, 5, 8
Lucky
Colors: yellow, grey, brown, golden
Lucky
Directions: southeast, northeast
Best
Match: Sheep, Rabbit, Tiger
Unlucky
Things
Unlucky
Numbers: 1, 3, 9
Unlucky
Colors: Red, Blue, Green
Unlucky
Direction: Southeast
Worst
Match: Snake, Monkey, Pig
Cookies by Cathy
Friday, February 1, 2019
Science Instruction and Writing Skills
For
a long time science learning and language learning were considered to be two unlike
fields. In reality the integration of these apparently different zones brings
advantage to both of them.
R wins over S,
The
direct and pleasing experiences of inquiry-based science can offer a rich framework
for the development of language when students share their findings and remarks.
Equally, the use of language to talk about own views is vital to the
development of scientific understanding.
One of the project my daughter plans to propose the science fair
How to Win “Rock-Paper-Scissors” - Science Fair Experiment
The
Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) game is a non-cooperative game and has three actions:
R (rock),
P (paper) and
S (scissors).
There are the following non-transitive dominance
relations among the actions:
R wins over S,
P wins over R,
S win over P
No action is better than the others.
In the simplest settings the
payoff matrix is characterized by a single parameter, the payoff the winning
action (a > 1, see Fig. 1A).
Founding
"If a player
wins over her opponent in one play, her probability of repeating the same action in the next play is considerably higher
than her probabilities of shifting actions.”
"If a player
has lost two or more times, she is likely to shift her play, and more likely to shift to the play that will beat the one that has just beaten her than
the same one her opponent just used to beat her.”
Per the research, this is a "Win-Stay, Lose-Shift" strategy.
For
example
“If Megan loses by playing scissors to Casey's rock,
Megan is most
likely to switch to paper,
which would beat Casey's rock.”
The Best Strategies to Win “Rock-Paper-Scissors”:
If
you lose the first round, switch to the thing that beats the thing your
opponent just played.
If you win, don't
keep playing the same thing, but instead switch to the thing that would beat
the thing that you just played. In other words, play the hand your losing,
opponent just played. To wit: you win a round with rock against
someone else's scissors. They are about to switch to paper. You should switch
to scissors.
Check the articles for more reading:
Developing
Language in the Context of Science: A View from the Institute for Inquiry
Institute
for Inquiry Exploratorium www.exploratorium.edu
Developing
Language Skills in Science Classrooms
Science
Activities to Promote Language and Communication by Katie
Playing
With Words 365
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