A few cute pics..... animals always want to be inside!

Learning to Read: youtube videos

 https://www.youtube.com/user/unfrazzled1/videos

This a link to my Youtube channel. There a number of  really excellent, top quality short videos there that are designed to help children who may be having trouble with words and reading. Have a look at them NOW!

 The best thing is for an adult to watch a video with the child and help them to listen and look and remember. There are some work sheets available for some of the videos, and there will be further little videos as time goes on . If you subscribe to my channel you will get to see what is new as I do them. For the worksheets, just contact me at auzzienotes@hotmail.com

Holly and Ivy for Christmas

Here is some typically Christmassy Christmas singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96decVNChdo

 The carol is a 19th century Cornish song and it is another version of the more familiar one "The Holly and the Ivy".
Here is some information from Wikipedia these carols. It seems that there is more to holly and ivy than you may think!

 "The Holly and the Ivy" is an English traditional Christmas carol. The carol contains intermingled Christian and Pagan imagery, with holly and ivy representing Pagan fertility symbols^[1]. Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of English Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they are mentioned regularly in churchwardens’ accounts (Roud 2004). Holly and ivy also figure in the lyrics of the "Sans Day Carol".

more music for Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TUWU_yg4s&feature=related

This one of the most famous pieces of music ever written, sung by one of the most famous choirs!

Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 – January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. This is a painting called "The Annunciation". It's not such a great reproduction as far as colours go, but you can see the quite impressive colour scheme of the angel's wings! The picture is actually a painting on a wall. It is known as a fresco.  There is a lovely Christmas carol about this particular scene, called The Angel Gabriel. here is the youtube link for that :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pliqObTHxUQ&feature=related

Another lovely painting

This lovely picture is called "Girl with a Dove" and it was painted by Picasso. Fortunately he didn't feel that it would look better if the girl's eyes were jammed right together over near her ear, or that she would look nice in bright reds and yellows, separated by strong black lines! This must be one of the few paintings he did that has not only a reasonably realistic image, but also a soft, delicate and fragile quality. Here is some more music of Debussy to complement the little girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

unwind a little...

“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”

―Henri Matisse
 The painting is by Monet, and is named "Cliff Walk at Pourville 1882".
Monet and Matisse were French artists of the 19th/20th century.

 The music is part of a suite named "Bergamasque", written by the French composer Debussy. You can see how the words of Matisse, the painting of Monet and the music of Debussy all combine to bring about a feeling of calm and relaxation.

Click here to listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGcEYALnk8s


Some more beautiful music, with gorgeous pictures here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdnkHGHqQs