Piggy pedagogy

Piggy pedagogy

Friday, December 4, 2015

Media today 278

Reading: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Nussknacker und Mausekönig, loc. 140 - 220/901 (kindle edition). Listening: Rolf Krenzer, Die kleinen Wikinger, 55:00 - 1.11.

The Krenzer stories are delightful and very realistic tales about children growing up in a Viking community. Up to this point they have been about life on the Viking homestead in Scandinavia and the attendant routines. The last chapters have been about constructing a Viking ship. Now the older boys are about to join their first raiding expedition. I'm very curious about how the violence aspect will be handled. Up until now everything has been very true-to-life.  

J continues to really enjoy the Nutcracker, despite the difficulty of the language. We have gotten up to right before the first battle between the mice and the soldiers, and J protested rather vehemently that we had to stop. He loved it when the Nutcracker taunts the mice:

"Knack knack – knack – dummes Mausepack – dummer toller Schnack – Mausepack – Knack – Knack – Mausepack – Krick und Krack – wahrer Schnack." 

2015
Total audio: 64.15 hours
Total video: 94.65 hours
Total gameplay: 7.38 hours (category added 8.25.2015) 
Age 6.02.2


No comments:

Post a Comment