Sharks Unit I (FREE Skip Counting Cards)
Thursday, July 25, 2013
[REPOST] Continent: Australia
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Now the materials I made were: the maps, flags, postcards and stamps. I also skipped printing the currency because my son isn’t interested with it at the moment.
My son also created the Australian flag out of cardstock (with a little assistance from me). He knows by heart the number of stars on the flag LOL.
I printed cards for the landmarks and foods in Australia. We were supposed to make Pavlova, but since we’re not really a fan of sweets and pastries, I rejected the thought of making it in order to save time and money :) Instead, we made BBQ ribs!!
Also, I made control cards for the animals in the Safari Toob Down Under for matching game. You can download it from here. Images were googled and if you wish to share it, kindly redirect them to my blog or on this post for the link. Thank you!
We plot the animals on the map where they’re mostly seen in Australia.
The next time we do Australia, I promise to add more materials and age appropriate activities. For now, I think these are okay :)
Artist Study ~ Vincent Van Gogh (Starry Night)
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
We concluded our Van Gogh study with Starry Night. We previously had Sunflowers and my son had a wonderful time painting like Vincent!
We discussed about the colors. With Sunflowers we were using bright colors... with Starry Night we're using darker shades like blue, violet and black.
I also paint with him :)
Here's my son's Starry Night rendition :)
Next would be either Seurat or Mondrian. I'm hoping we could do a lot of Artist Study before the school starts this fall.
I wonder what have you been doing this summer?
Have a nice day!
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Artist Study: Vincent Van Gogh
Friday, July 12, 2013
We're doing Vincent Van Gogh this week. I plan to give "art lesson" every week till the school starts to keep the little one busy as we decided not to let him join Summer Camp this year.
We have this wonderful book as our reference.
First project: painting Sunflowers like Van Gogh
Learning how to use big brushes for backgrounds and we talked about the different "strokes" in painting.
Here as seen on the picture below, I let him talk about the colors Van Gogh used in his painting.
For painting objects, we used small brushes.
His and hers :)
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