Projects and Crafts

This year, we decided to include a more formal Art program called "Art With A Purpose". It is nice and we all seem to enjoy it. The program introduces concepts like "feathering", "vivid", "3D" and other artistic concepts and words (an area I seem to lack). We have always done projects but this gives us a spot in our weekly curriculum where we have a project already planned out - the children look forward to Wednesday "Art Day" in our school. Here are some of the projects we have done - some are from the art program and some are from other curriculum:

Lil' Farmer's favorite project!

Here Kind Heart is showing his origami "boat". Straight Arrow is a wiz at origami and actually helped out the teacher in a few spots! He has a great mind for construction.

I will explain this picture in a future post!

Feathering - taking an eraser and moving the color from the line into the body.

Our 3-Dimensional assignment. The boys added their features which was not a part of the original assignment. Who says boys don't like to play house?! They added beds, tables, chairs, parking spots, cars, and the ability to tip the house back.

Science Experiment

Today we took a break from the normal routine, and added a science experiment! This quarter, we are learning about water, while we continue through the Bible. Our nature is always presented together with the Word, as it is His Creation. Today in school we covered the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Yes, I know there is a fourth, as Professor so astutely pointed out, but a child needs not to know about plasma at 8 years old. Anyway, back to the experiment. We made juice slushies by lowering the temperature of ice. It was quite fun! I used a book called "Science Adventures"

Straight Arrow putting the homemade snow into the ziploc bag.

Measuring the salt into the snow.

Pouring 1/2 C of grape juice into smaller baggie.

Duct-tape over baggie, to ensure it will not bust open!

Kind Heart getting into shaking the bags! This part was very cold, one needed gloves or towels to hold the bag.

And the slushie is made! The first batch took about 2 minutes, the second batch took about 20 seconds.

Delicious!

Happy Customers!

First Day of School

This past week we celebrated our first day of school! Always a big day in our Family. Enjoy the pictures!