Tuesday, September 10, 2013

More Flutterbies

Hope that you have enjoyed looking at the close-ups of some of Melany's art pieces. I posted a picture of Melany standing next to the blue butterfly so you can get an idea as to how large the butterfly really is! Melany said that she used 3 1/2 blue colored pencils before she was finished with it. Today has been a typical Tuesday. Esther and Joy read to me and then Abigail joined us for art. Graham chose to surprise his mother and have his school lessons all finished when she got home from her Bible study. My artists today drew butterflies (Wonder where I got that inspiration for this lesson?!). They had fun using different mediums...they had the choice of colored pencils, oil pastels, chalk pastels or any combination of the three. We had some very interesting butterflies. After art, Abigail had her sewing lesson. She finished making the headscarves that she was making for her mom, Esther and herself. They are for them to wear when in Africa. Joy is making her own and will work on it tomorrow. After lunch, Isaac came over for his school. Then Elijah came over for his art lesson and a couple of other lessons. He drew a caterpillar, a cocoon, and a butterfly. He had the choice of magic markers, colored pencils or crayons. He chose magic markers. He was very proud to put it in his notebook of papers and art he has done so far this year. He is coming right along with his work. He is doing so great at reading the three letter phonetic words and matching them to the corresponding picture that I think that he is ready to move on to reading lists of three letter phonetic words. He is starting to do more writing...working on numbers and his name. He is doing great! Later in the afternoon Graham came over to show us the latest robot that he has made out of his Lego NXT robot set. Then he, Goosey (Woody) and I had fun looking at Google Earth on my iPad. We looked for all sorts of places in Africa where they will be going. He followed the Nile River from its source at Lake Victoria all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. And also followed one of the roads that they will be traveling while there. It is amazing what one can do with technology these days. It really makes places in the world so much more tangible and understandable. Earlier Woody walked to the prayer room at church and has just returned.

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