Arts Week!

We're in the midst of Arts Week and we're having a good time!

Yesterday we listened to some Beethoven and started reading Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol, which we finished today. It's a series of letters between a little boy and his uncle and is a very entertaining read.


We learned that El Greco had a way of stretching out the people in his paintings, so we played around with drawing tall people, too.



Abby and I read Little Nino's Pizzeria and started the lessons yesterday. Today she made a paper pizza and played around with a game which teaches about the food pyramid. This USDA website is very informative and we spent a good deal of time there.

For history, we've read Samuel's Choice and Nathan Hale, Patriot Spy. I especially like the book about Nathan Hale. It's a short book and could be used as a reader. Samuel's Choice is very exciting, too.

Today's art lesson was about Rembrandt, one of my favorite artists. We looked at the expressions on the faces he drew and painted and then the kids stood in front of the bathroom mirror and drew their faces with different expressions. It was hard for them to make mad or scared faces because of all the giggling that was going on!

And we've mixed in some animal study and drawing lessons and cooking for Thomas.