Art is the highlight of Tuesdays! At ten o'clock Graham, Abigail, Joy, and Esther all assemble in our school room/office to have art. We're learning lots of things. Today we talked about thin and thick lines, horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines, primary colors and spectral colors (colors in the rainbow) AND we learned how to take care of paint brushes so they stay nice (hopefully) and how to use our paints and not get them all yucky colored (clean the brush before dipping it in a different color paint) and they enjoyed mixing colors and lastly they learned how to clean the brushes and reshape them at the end of the painting time so they will be ready for the next painting session. But mostly they just enjoyed the treat of getting to paint. Graham experimented with mixing colors...two of his papers he called "test kitchens!" Esther jumped right in and started painting objects...from people to flowers to shapes...she painted the most pictures (she's fast!). Abigail painted a scene with a flower and sun first and then for her second picture she painted different colored horizontal lines and then went back and painted vertical lines and made a very pretty plaid (that's what the sew-er in me saw anyway). Joy enjoyed painting a multicolored heart and then on her other paper painting a vertical line and then a horizontal line and "dragging" different colors down the line to see them change color. They all enjoyed seeing what colors they could make out of the primary colors AND then when I gave them some white paint how they could make colors get lighter (tints of the color). I would say that we had a successful art day. They want to paint the next time we have art too!!!!! Elijah got in on painting too as Kathy let him paint at their house. He joined us in our gallery of art portrait after class! Oh, and the art smocks that Graham and I revised worked great!
Before art Elijah had his school time and then time with Woody...they look at books and talk about the pictures in the books. Esther came over after Elijah. She started back on the movable alphabet today and also did a page of addition. Yeah Esther! Right after art, Graham had his sewing lesson. He is in the preparation stage of making a blanket for his little baby brother-to-be. He is learning to applique so he is going to applique a sailboat on a blue flannel blanket. He chose the fabrics for his applique today and got them all cut out.
I have been a bit tired this afternoon...I wonder why! Woody also seemed to be a bit tired...he seemed to sleep quite soundly for a while this afternoon in his recliner. He has also read today and worked on his Fresh Encounters workbook. And, he has done a little watering of plants (our eggplant plant looked pretty bedraggled this afternoon...the eggplant continues to grow...I'm looking forward to cooking and eating our very own homegrown eggplant. It has been so hot and no rain...rather rough on the plants. He walked to the prayer room at church a while ago. Tonight for supper we had Burrito Pie. When I made this recipe the last time I made up one in a pie plate and put it in the freezer to have at a later time. It was nice to pull it out or the freezer and pop it in the oven for our supper tonight...I needed easy!
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