kalanamak
02-07-2009, 11:46 AM
My son watches Sister Wendy and David Attenborough and other BBC things like How Art Made the World, plus the old Bernstein concert-lectures for children, very carefully, and brings vocabulary, bird calls, and other things into our conversations (like recognizing a piece of art, or sitting up at a piece of music and telling me what was going on in a video when that clip was used).
I'd like to try him on something a little "drier". I've listened to some of the Teaching Company's CD's and I was wondering if there was a DVD with visuals that is on the level of/as engrossing as David Attenborough. Kiddo loves music, art, and war, not in that order. I know this is an off chance, but looking at some of the courses, I just wondered if the extra price of the DVD might be worth it to beguile kiddo. He would probably start by doing his history or biology coloring while I have the DVD on (I introduce new stuff to him that way, and after a couple times through I hear him use words I know he got from them). He then gets "favourite parts" and from that pays attention to more and more.
Any ideas on one worth a try?
I'd like to try him on something a little "drier". I've listened to some of the Teaching Company's CD's and I was wondering if there was a DVD with visuals that is on the level of/as engrossing as David Attenborough. Kiddo loves music, art, and war, not in that order. I know this is an off chance, but looking at some of the courses, I just wondered if the extra price of the DVD might be worth it to beguile kiddo. He would probably start by doing his history or biology coloring while I have the DVD on (I introduce new stuff to him that way, and after a couple times through I hear him use words I know he got from them). He then gets "favourite parts" and from that pays attention to more and more.
Any ideas on one worth a try?