Piano

• Intro to Keyboard
   
• Hoffman Academy Piano Lessons
   
• Piano Fingering 101
   

Learn songs:
• O Christmas Tree
   
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
   
Advanced Challenge:

• Beethoven Moonlight Sonata
   
• Little Drummer Boy
   
• We Wish You A Merry Christmas
   

Reading Music

Orchestra Instruments

• The Remarkable Farkle McBride by John Lithgow
   
• Learn all about each instrument of the orchestra
   
• Description of the instruments of the Orchestra based on how the sound is produced
   

Music Performances

Watch Tati and her high school classmates reunite and sing: Finale of show Rent

Andrea Bocelli Music For Hope - Easter Sunday performance from Duomo di Milano

Students and Alumni from Juillard perform over Zoom to Bolero.
Mom fell in love with this piece when I was 8 and it was on the Olympics

Music Quizzes and Games

Games and Quizzes to learn along with

Guitar

• Justin Guitar Free Lessons - Lesson 1: A & D Chords + Songs
   
• Essential Chords chart
   

Ukelele

• All about the Ukelele - First Chords
   
• All about the Ukelele - String Chords
   
• Two Chord Songs like Row Row Row Your Boat
• One String Riffs - Smoke on the Water



Mom's Challenges

• Three Little Birds - Video and Song Sheet

Xylophone

• You Can Play It Songs Tutorials
   
• 5 Christmas Songs: Angels We Have Heard on High
• Star Wars theme
Learned:

• Happy Birthday
• Amazing Grace
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Learn a Song

• Wakko's 50 State Capitols with Lyrics/Subtitles
   
• Recu�rdame
   
• Believer
   
• Bonito
   
• Lluvia
   

Songs Learned

• Thriller ** Learn to dance it! A dance tutorial

DIY Instruments

• 42 creative homemade musical instruments

Animal Shows

• Lizard Lady - Get up close and personal with lizards and snakes while learning about these riveting reptiles
   
• Underwater astonishments
   

ZooCams

• San Diego Zoo
   
• Elmwood Park ZooZoo School Videos, Games and Giraffe Cam Live
   
• Philadelphia Zoo zookeeper videos and live cam
   
• Cincinnati Zoo - at Noon daily there is a Live Video; also check out Fiona the Hippo, Lion Cubs and other animal videos
   
• Denver Zoo has baby rhino and lots other animals on Videos and Virtual Safari live at noon.
   
• Fresno Zoo's Behind the Scenes Videos
   
• Georgia Aquarium Live Cams
   
• Experience Polar Bears on the Canadian Tundra
   
• Smithsonian's National Zoo Panda Cam, and other animals
   
• List of Zoos with Webcams
   

Rhinos

• Northern White Rhinoceros
   
• Rhino Keepers for A Day
   
• What a baby rhino sounds like
   
• Nat Geo Kids' Rhino Facts
   

Dinosaurs

• Take a look at 6 dinosaurs in depth at Smithsonian�s new Hall of Fossils
   

Bees

• Honey Bee Anatomy and Honey Bee Unit Study Resources
   

Birds

• Audubon Society's video on hummingbirds,
  Then read a news story about hummingbird vision
   
• Audubon for Kids
   

Learning about Animals

• SeaWorld Cheetas, Elephants, Tigers, Wolves, Penguins, Polar Bears and Sea Turtles
   
• A to Z Animals List with Pictures, Facts & Information
   
• Sea Curious - Dive into questions about animals from Shedd Aquarium
   

All Things Shark

• Smithsonian Ocean teaches you all about: Narwhal, Sharks & Rays
   
• National Geographic Kids Quiz Whiz on Sharks
   
• Learn about how tagging lemon sharks and other ocean predators has taught scientists about coastal ecosystems.
   
• Have you heard of a thresher shark? It is a very rare type of shark that is not seen by divers often! Learn more.
   
• Oceana tagged 45 sharks, created an interactive map and have lots of facts about different types of sharks.
   
• Images, quick facts, and details about different types of sharks
   
• Shark Kids Video Page with LOTS videos like Satellite Tagging Sharks
   
• Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's cool Shark Lessons And Resources and video on Deep Water Sharks
   

• What do you want to know? What have you learned from researching sharks? Which Shark is most interesting to you?
• Imagine that you are a shark for a day. Write about your life as a shark. What type of shark are you? How fast can you swim? What do you do? Where do you go? How does it feel? How is it different from your life as a human?

• Garden:
  Maestra Carrie's School Garden Doctor blog
• From Maestra Carrie: Cover Crop Blend from the Napa Seed Library
   
• Organic Growers School Basics of Cover Cropping
   
• How to Start Vegetable Seeds Indoors
   
• Maya Angelou - Little People Big Dreams - Maya Angelou
• Civil Rights Activist & Author
• The Evolution Of Maya Angelou
• Her most powerful quotes
• And Still I Rise
• I'm a Rainbow in Somebody's Cloud
   
• What, where, why was the deepest hole dug in the ground? How deep are oil rigs drilled into the ground?
   
• Why Are Honeycomb Cells Hexagonal?
   
• Otters
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium's Wild about Otters?
  • 5 Otter Facts You Might Not Know
  • Sea Otter Trivia - test your knowledge
     

In your presentations, these questions should be answered. You can add anything else you want.

• Where do you want to go? What do you want to see? Learn about?
• How long does it take to get there? Do we fly, drive? Any stops along the way?
• Plan the order in which we see things. Map it out so it makes sense.
• Any restaurants (that exist today and hopefully will be there in the future).
• Search for top tourist sights in the city/country to get ideas and see what interests you.
   
• Road Trip once pandemic is over. Where do you want to go? see? stay? eat? how long is the trip - a weekend where we leave Friday afternoon and return Sunday night?
• Answer all the above in your presentation.
• Where are we staying on night 1?
  We need to check into a hotel that night. Do we continue driving the next day to the destination? Or are we there already?
   
• Argentina
Bonus: Add things Mom wants to do and see:
• Mendoza - where Grandpa Vic was born
• Visit Bodega Familia Blanco - winery that makes Mairena wine and other wineries that look interesting
• Iglesia San Francisco - simply for Papi and it's name!
• Argentina soccer team - stadium tour - Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti
• Is there a Havanna factory to visit? They make mom's favorite alfajores
• Visit the link in States & Countries section on learning more about Argentina.

Tips and Tricks

• How to cut out paper shapes with one cut
   
• Jenga blocks counterbalance
   
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Paper Airplanes

• Paper Airplane Designs database with tutorials
   
• Paper Airplane Science
   
• Build a Paper Airplane Launcher
   
• How to build the Eagle - fastest paper airplane
   
• 5 Paper Airplanes that fly FAR
   

DIY Craft Projects

• Make a cardboard pantograph - a device that simplifies the enlarged copying of pictures.
   
• Paper craft animals - including a peacock that can fan its feathers out and show off
   
• How to Make a Mini Robotic Arm at Home out of Drinking Straws
   
• How to Make Basketball Game
   
• Build your own Marble Run
   
• Pom Pom Challenge Game
   
• Pom Pom Launcher
   
• Slingshot Straw Rockets
   
• Pipe Cleaner Animals
   
• Foil Transfer Art - Similar to Sumonagashi but using foil and water spray
   
• Star Wars Perler Bead Patterns

Do with Mom or Dad - special supplies or drill needed

• Build a hydraulic elevator
   

Sign Language

• Signing Savvy - visual sign language dictionary
• Basic Signs and More Basic Signs and Learning You are My Sunshine
   
• Alphabet and Basic Signs and Numbers and Expressions, More Expressions
   
• learn your ASL ABCs
   
• Beginner conversational words and phrases in ASL
   

Art Projects

• Learn and Recreate art projects from a famous artist
   
• Art with Mati & Dada - Mati is a girl who is magically transported into the lives of great artists by her friend, Dada, in a fun cartoon series.
   
• Get inspired by Keith Haring
   

Painting

• Sunflowers in a Vase
   
• Alejibre Mickey Mouse
   
• Dragonfly on Rainbow background
   
• Butterfly / Mariposa
   
• Succulent and nopal
   

• Layered Watercolor flowers
   
• Watercolor Tulips
   

• Symmetrical Butterflies
   

Rainbows

• Rainbow Painting
   
• Rainbow Paper Crafts
   
• Rainbow doodling idea 1and idea 2 - perfect for a card background
   

Origami and Paper Crafting

• Tissue paper flowers / Flores de papel
   
• How to Make a Paper Balloon and lots of ideas
   
• Paper Crafting Ideas - Minion bookmark, Paper flower craft
   
• Flower Card
   
• Scrapbook Challenges
   
• TED Talk on using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs
   
• Origami USA has free classes and downloadable folding instructional diagrams
   
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All kinds of Crafting Videos

• Follow some easy steps to learn how to tie eight basic knots.
   
• Top 12 stitches in hand embroidery
   

Mom's Challenges for you

• Red Truck with wheels and a surprise for Mom in the bed of the truck
   
• Finish my sunflower
• Hummingbird for Grandmom
• Seahorse from Mom's Lego My Eggo Pinterest Board
   

Fun Builds

• Get inspired by this Pug Money Box to add a build a trap door inside a box
   
• Air Hockey Table
   
• Build a desk organizer with working drawers
   
• Ocean LEGO Projects to Build (Sea Turtle, Crab, Otter, and Fish!)
   

COMPLETED!

• How to make a LEGO Puzzle Box
   
• Learn how to Build a Trammel of Archimedes, and how it can be used to draw ellipses
  
• Build a Coin Sorter
• Build a gravity defying Tensegrity Sculpture and then check out this version
• Sails out of Lego, Paper, and Fabric that you can add to your Lego cars and have some fun on a windy day.
  Other ideas for building a Wind Car and Wind Sail Ideas
• Grandmomma's Challenge: Eiffel Tower - your Pinterest board

Tips and Tricks

• Roof tops 
• Using flat bricks to build movable animals (Check out beginning of video to see how to build a cool little ladder!) 
• LEGO gravity rollers
   
• LEGO Stairs
   
• LEGO Working Garage Door
   
• 10 Secret LEGO Building Tricks Only Experts Know
   
• Make A BASIC LEGO House in 5 Minutes
   
• How to Build LEGO furniture
   

Inspirations

Cars

• LEGO Balloon Car
• LEGO Rubber Band Car and Idea 2
• Long Distance Rubber Band Car - how can you apply this to a lego car?

Engineering

• Build a LEGO Pulley
• LEGO Catapult and idea 2 for Catapult
• LEGO Zip Line Idea 1 and Idea 2
• LEGO Marble Run and super idea 2

LEGO Instructions

• LEGO 8844 Helicopter

Sharks

• Build a movable Shark
• Build a Shark or a Narwhal

Other Cool Builds

• LEGO Candy Dispenser and idea 2
• How to build a Star
• Spinning Tops
• Five LEGO Dinosaurs to Build
   
• Build a Rainbow
   
• Emojis - sort all yellow pieces out first
• Minions

NASA learning
 

Earth

• Dad thinks this is one of the coolest animations that he has ever seen!
  Scale & Composition of Earth�s surface : Major constituents of the crust, water and atmosphere (Dec 17, 2019)