Arts Week (October 09)

We did something interesting today. We studied Giotto di Bondone, who was an artist during the Italian Renaissance and we made paint with colored chalk and egg.

First, Carrie and Thomas pulverized the chalk.

Then we mixed in an egg yolk, beaten with 2 teaspoons of water, and divided among our bowls to make the right consistency of paint. Then we painted.

Thomas' picture is first; Abby's picture is second. The colors are so vivid!

Thomas and I also studied Correggio, who was an artist during the Renaissance. We finished reading The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell, which went along with our unit study. And we learned to play a middle-ages board game called Fox and Geese.

Carrie happily finished up her geography unit on North America today.

And Abby and I started Grandfather's Journey by Allan Say. We learned a lot about Japan from a couple of websites and looked at the atlas.