Some of their work...

Our kids like to draw like many kids do...they have fun working in their own style. They do have a great art program called Artistic Pursuits. It uses many styles and famous works of art so show different aspects for study. Also during this school year they will be doing many projects during their history/geography study of the countries in the Easter Hemisphere.

Tall girl had picked a volcano project and made a visual aid describing how they erupt.



Little Man chose to make his own island complete with water park, scuba diving, dolphin watching, fishing trips, golf, hiking and a maze. He had to make a map key for it as well. There was a red hotel, but he also had huts for people to stay in if they wanted to. He named it Tohii.



A galactic battle scene with various lego men, lol-I'm sure you could guess who did this one!

Art...

We started their new Art book today. I like this program. It's called Artistic Pursuits. There are different books for different age levels and the artwork they use can be found in the National Gallery of Arts. Chagall, Monet, Jean-Baptiste, Renoir, Signac are just a few of the ones that we'll be seeing in our book this year.

Today we studied a picture from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot called 'The Pond', a painting of a tree lined pond with a few cows being watered and cooled off by a man sitting under some trees, who you didn't really notice except he had a small red cap on . I pulled up some of his paintings from the National Gallery of Art. That is a neat website. We talked about the details in the painting and then they were to go outside, sketch pad and pencils in hand, and find detailed things in nature...leaves, twigs, insects and then moving on up to bird's nests, trees, cloud formations, and animals. They were to draw some of the things they saw. I think they did rather well!