Happy Monday! We hope you’ve had a chance to walk through our new website. If not, please make sure to take some time today to look around. Our new site showcases one of our strategic anchors: PURSUE beauty and order in all things. Not only is it beautiful, it is also comprehensive and exhaustive where you can get most, if not all, of your school-related questions answered.
For this week’s Mix-Ins, we have a lot to share with you! Firstly, we are going look into the themes of Philosophy and Religion as we explore the rise of monasticism along with exploring the Byzantine world. We highly encourage you to read through the history overview packet. The packet was sent out in our Bear Necessities email last week. It is rich with information to help with your lessons. You can also find it in the Parent Portal of our website.
Secondly, we are throwing in a couple of level specific resources for those of you studying specific topics. This will include: mapping, Wassily Kandinsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Metric System and Weather Science. Make sure to check out those links below.
Lastly, if you missed last week’s Mix-In, make sure to read it, as it also includes a brief reminder on the purpose of Monday Mix-Ins. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or if you have any of your own resources you’d like to share with our community!
Thank you for reading and enjoy the links below!
Resource Links:
Barbarian Treasures | See examples here
Barbarian Metal Work | More examples here
Met Museum in New York | See medieval artwork and artifacts here.
The Age of Monasteries | Take a virtual tour of a medieval monastery, listen to monks sing and find out about the wealth, power and daily life of monasteries.
The Book of Kells | Zoom in on pages from the Book of Kells.
Lindisfarne Gospels | See pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels, a famous manuscript, written by a monk on an island off the coast of northwest England.
Byzantine Mosaics | View Byzantine mosaics from Emperor Justinian’s palace.
Art from Byzantine Empire | See ivory carvings and other art from the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Timeline | “The Byzantine Empire lasted for over a thousand years, and it was home to the largest and most powerful empire in the world. This is a timeline of its history.”
Byzantine Games and Activities | Fun for kids!
Mapping | How to Draw a Map of the World using Blobs
Primary Art | On Wassily Kandinsky
Music | On Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Science | Metric Systems through 2 songs via Numberock (super fun website!)
Science | Weather Science website designed by a meteorologist as an educational for teachers and parents to use.
Short Videos:
*Parents, please preview for your students first.
Saint Augustine | Apostle of England
Constantinople | Watch the fall of Constantinople and how Sultan Mehmet II and the troops of the Ottoman Empire captured the city:
Hagia Sophia | Learn about the Byzantine Empire from the history of Hagia Sophia, a church in Justinian’s time and now a museum in Istanbul (Constantinople):
Emperor Justinian | Justinian‘s short biography:
Beowulf | An animated TV movie from 1998 *Parents, please note that this may be too graphic for younger students so please preview it first:
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