Starting Back Up (November 24)

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

I've been telling myself for a year or better that I've got to get back to blogging.  The boys are growing unbelievably quickly, doing lots of fun (and funny!) things, and I haven't been taking the time to record any of it.  Starting today, I'm going to try to remember to update at least a couple of times a week...we'll see how this goes. 

We had a pretty mellow day today.  Tyler finished his World War I study and Ryan worked on his numbers and the letter n.  James and Ryan both made cute handprint turkeys in preparation for Thanksgiving.  Tonight is fencing class for Tyler and then all three boys need to finish working on their Christmas gifts for their Popo and Mame. 

No pictures from today, but I'm going to work backwards and post some from earlier this month.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Posted by 4sweetums

Welcome back! I hope you are doing well.
blessings,
Dawn

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Egyptian Art (November 19)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

I'm teaching a class called "Art Through History" for our homeschool group this year.  Tyler and I have used Harmony Fine Arts as our art curriculum for the past couple of years and have loved it, but had trouble actually finding the time to get the projects done.  This class is the perfect solution - I'm still using Harmony as the base, and the scheduled twice a month slot forces us to make the time. 

Our first four classes focused on prehistoric art - I hope to get those pictures up here soon.  Our November, December, and early January class will all be about Egyptian art.  The first class of this month, we started a canopic jar project.  The jars are Wilton's candy making bottles built out on the bottom with paper towels and masking tape, then covered with plastered gauze.  We built the head on the bottle tops/spouts with Model Magic.  For today's class, we painted our jars, discussed the style of Ancient Egyptian paintings and did some small-scale "murals" in the same style. 

Two weeks ago, Tyler and Allison molded their jars' heads.

Today, Tyler, Efrain, and Karl worked hard on their painting (Tyler's is some sort of alien creature called a Hole-Head - Efrain made a dragon and Karl created a Volcano God.)

James stayed with Grandma for a nap last time, so he didn't have a bottle to paint, but he did enjoy smashing a piece of Model Magic and then painting it.  Ryan opted to stay with Grandma both days. 

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Posted by 4sweetums

How cool! That looks like so much fun.
Blessings,
Dawn

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Numbers & Games (November 18)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Ryan's been working hard on learning all of his numbers and how to put them in order.  He loves to work in his math book - updating the calendar is his favorite part of each school day.

Of course, what Ryan does, James must do, too.  He has lots of fun playing with the number cards, even if he hasn't learned what most of them are quite yet. 

This afternoon was our monthly Game Club meeting with our homeschool group.  Tyler most enjoyed playing Battleship with his friend, Efrain.  Ryan flitted from activity to activity.  He fished for letters, watched Battleship, which he desperately wants to be able to learn to play, played with our Look and Find game, and beat me soundly at animal dominoes. 

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