Picture Post!

Daddy on a rare day off

Rather than buying all the books on the Ambleside Online book list we're using for direction, we've been getting them from the library. We use the (simply fabulous) NB library app to order books at home, and pick them up at the library in one nice tidy stack. This keeps us safe from books with good pictures but bad plots (a serious hazard you face when your kids help choose books)! Clifford, anyone? 

E, adding glitter to her drawing. 

K's leaf to copy was green, but she painted her drawing red.

This week we combined nature study with art. Even baby O joined us, colouring away on his paper w enthusiasm.

Nanny

My leaf

You may be noticing that I love to post pictures from Drawing Monday. It's partly because I love it so much, and partly because math and reading are not nearly so photogenic!  Imagine it with me:
"Here is a photo of K showing which hand is her right hand." "And over here, we have K counting beans. Notice the pinto variety..."
And reading, well, we do our reading after naptime, on the bed. K is usually upside-down or backwards or underneath a pillow.  "And here is a picture of my unmade bed; notice K under the pillow on the left..."

The girls have been sewing a little bit, too. I find it is a very good way to keep them from exploring the sewing box while I do my mending! If I add handicrafts to our curriculum, we'll probably start with something like this.

drawing monday

We tried something simpler this week, to get E re-interested. And it worked! Her attention span is still shorter than I like, but she is only 3, after all.

 Top picture clockwise from top: Nanny's, E's, mine, Charlene's (Nanny's current home care).

Drawing Monday

We have been enjoying drawing for almost a year, now. Our first sketch book is filled - or, in K's case, used up, because she ripped out every drawing she liked to share with her public.
I am enjoying the fact that we all can do this together, including Nanny, and her home care worker.

We had gotten into some fairly complex drawing, using the step-by-step method recommended by Monart.(drawing by myself)

(d rawing by K, age 5)

We also played with watercolors and oil pastels, which was fun. 

However, I found that E (3yrs) was acting a bit defeatist about the whole drawing thing, so I stepped back to try easier pictures. Here is a recent caterpillar; first K's, then E's. 

 

It has been such a pleasure to do this together.   

      If you look closely, you will see that the caterpillar is smiling. 

Drawing Monday

I really like these kids. God is good.

Our drawing, using the Monart Method, has been progressing wonderfully.  We've been getting together with Nanny and her home-care worker every Monday and enjoying a drawing time.
Today, Katherine drew a fabulous parrot. Unfortunately for me, she gave it to Daddy to take to work.

The 'drawing tip' of the day was "Use the whole paper," because it looks more like art if you do that.