Curated Video
I Dream of the Letter T
Miss Palomine describes a dream she had in which she found herself in a video game. The object was to find doors that had pictures of animals that begin with the letter -T. With every door that opened, she was able to move up to the next...
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Writing the Letter V
Miss Palomine introduces Valerie Violin. She then talks about how writing Valerie’s -V with straight lines is different from writing Unity’s -U with just one, curvy line. She and the student review the lined paper and then they practice...
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Xtra Special Writing
Miss Palomine talks about playing Tic-tac-toe with Socrates. As she was writing the letter -X, she thought about how much fun it was. She and the student review the lined paper and they then practice tracing and writing the uppercase -X...
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Words around My Home
Using simple objects around the house, Miss Palomine and the student sound out simple words, identify the letters in those words, and then practice writing the words on elementary lined paper.
Curated Video
Drawing and Tracing
Miss Palomine introduces the shape of the week, the rectangle, and the color of the week, orange. Together, she and the student look for rectangles and objects that are orange.
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Introduction to Cursive Writing
Explore the star writer focus points and cursive writing strokes and achieve an introduction to forming both lowercase and uppercase cursive letters.
MarketWatch
Does job hopping still increase your salary?
Switching jobs used to be a reliable strategy to get a significant pay raise, but MarketWatch reporter Andrew Keshner says peak job hopping may be behind us. Here's what to know.
Music Matters
Using Suspensions to Harmonize a Descending Bass - Music Composition
Here's an idea for writing a sequence based on using a chain of suspensions above a descending scale in the bass line. Descending scales in the bass can be awkward to harmonise satisfactorily without generating parallels. This pattern...
Music Matters
Two-Part Canon at the 5th - Writing Canon
Learn how to go about composing a strict canon at the 5th in two parts. This lesson explains the most useful technique for constructing a strict canon bar by bar, in such a way that the melodic line has shape and direction, while...
Music Matters
Bass Sequence Using Falling Thirds - Music Composition
This music composition lesson explores one idea for writing a sequence based on a pattern in the bass line. In this case, the bass alternates falling thirds with rising seconds to generate a melodic pattern at the bottom of the texture,...