Arts Week, Saturday

Today is our last day for Arts Week. We've had a great time away from the usual school books!

Besides working on unit studies with Thomas and Carrie today, Carrie helped with lunch. We made our own recipe, which is a layer of shredded beef or pork roast in a baking dish with a layer of BBQ sauce, a layer of cheese, and on top, a layer of cornbread batter, which is then baked until the cornbread is done. The kids like this a lot!

Abby and I had fun reading The Thanksgiving Story. We made Snickerdoodles, which I understood were made during colonial times until I consulted foodtimeline.org and learned I was wrong. Oh, well, we had a good time making them and will enjoy having them for lunch tomorrow.

And for our last day of Mirette on the High Wire, we did the science lesson on copper and cleaned some pennies.

Next week: Read Aloud Week, our very favorite school time together!

Arts Week, Thursday and Friday

We're having such a good time this week!

On Thursday afternoon, Thomas and I made ww herb bread to go with his DITW unit study. He had a good time mixing and kneading and everyone enjoyed eating the hot bread with butter. It was gone in a matter of minutes!


I helped Carrie made another notebook cover and Abby and I read The Happy Lion, which is such a cute book, to go with Mirette.

Abby (We decided she should be a French girl, Abbee') and I made a boardinghouse on Friday. She helped with our weekly cleaning and helped prepare French food for lunch: bacon quiche, French onion soup, baguette, and chocolates.


We went out to the local mission to stock the pantry, leaving the sign on the front door. When we got back, the bug man had been here and left the bill in the door. Wonder what he thought of Abby's sign??


Thomas and I worked on The Door in the Wall and Carrie worked on Around the World in 80 Days.

The week is going well!

Arts Week Project #2

Today's artist was Henri Rousseau. We made jungle prints by painting the backs of leaves, laying them on the paper, covering the paper with another piece, and going over it with a rolling pin. Then the kids added flowers or drawings.


Abby made muffins, Anna helped make chicken pies for lunch, Abby and I read Old Bet and the Start of the American Circus to go with Mirette and talked about compound words and vocab words. We listened to our Mozart CD and Thomas listened to some chants. I helped Anna make a new dresser scarf and we shelled butterbeans.

A pretty good day!

Arts Week Project #1

We're having Arts Week!

Today we studied the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe. She liked to paint flowers that covered the canvas. Carrie, Thomas, and Abby enjoyed painting flowers, too. We found the project in Discovering Great Artists.

We also listened to part of a new Mozart CD and read about him in Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers.

Thomas looked up and drew some English wildflowers to go with his chapter in The Door in the Wall.

Carrie worked on Around the World in 80 Days, reading about the Reform Club and making a minit book for her notebook. We also sewed a notebook cover this afternoon and she hemmed a pair of pj shorts.

Abby and I started reading Mirette on the High Wire for her FIAR book. We read Madeline, too, for comparison and looked at the atlas and Children Just Like Me. She helped Rachel make the eggrolls at lunchtime, too.

More tomorrow.....