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Teaching an Artist

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February 8, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 5 Comments

We discovered these Katie books at a consignment shop and have been lucky to collect quite a few in the series. Of course, my Katie loves them! They are delightful books that follow the imaginative adventures of Katie into the world of art and historical places.

Every day, Katie asks if we can do art first.

Every day, I tell her we have to do math and reading and history and science first.

Currently, Katie’s other favorite thing is Song School Spanish. Review coming up soon!

Art is her favorite subject! I use this as an incentive to get her to cooperate with the other subjects. We try to incorporate arts and crafts into everything we do for her since she loves it so much.

Here’s a picture Katie drew the other day with markers of my cherry limeade drink. Even though the straw is floating, I was impressed by the 3D lid.

We got Katie and Tori a guitar for Christmas. They’d been begging and we’re going through the lessons on Schoolhouse Teachers. Katie is also teaching herself to play piano. We use the KinderBach app and My First Piano Adventure. I am amazed at her musical ability. She’s always singing or humming.

guitar

Little brother Alex wants to do everything his sisters do. Here, Katie and Alex are painting with watercolors. These two don’t often get along.

painting

Alex also joined his sisters here with their Harmony Fine Arts lesson. They drew Giotto angels with chalk pastels.

art time

Everything Katie does, she does it with style. Vacuuming is so much easier when you’re wearing a princess dress!

princess vacuuming

Katie is our free spirit. She thinks outside the box. She excels at everything she does. She can already read chapter books and she’s not even 6 yet. She soaks up knowledge. I pray that she grows up and does radical and amazing things for God.

All About Reading Reader

She is a delightful child and brings us so much joy.

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Winter Nature Walk

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January 12, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 8 Comments

Join us on our walk around our neighborhood?

We ventured out for a winter nature walk.

I love the birches in this area. Their bark really stands out…and has eyes!



an evergreen silhouette with the sun shining through it.

evergreen



a tree that still has leaves on it

bare bracnhes



Just look at that gorgeous bark! I think it’s a striped maple.

bark



crows in the tree. they were eating walnuts.

crows

and, look! a crow footprint in the snow.

crow print

this tree already has buds on it

buds

this birch with buds and catkins

catkins


juniper berries. Tori was good to spot these.

juniper berries

a really big beautiful rock in someone’s front yard

rock

a poignant picture of unpruned withered roses with rocks

roses

Tori was excited by how long her shadow was.

Winter Nature Walk

Rosehips along the next door neighbor’s fence. I love how they stand out against the gray and snow.

rose hips

our new nature display box. I found this at Hobby Lobby. perfect.

nature display box

the girls hard at work drawing the milkweed pods

milkweed

Tori is proud of her tree silhouette page

tree notebooking

Katie is drawing the buds and crows in her tree silhouette

tree notebooking

Alex drew his pictures too. He loves being a part of it all.

tot notebooking

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Sure glad we got in that walk since we’re in a blizzard this weekend!

Tori got a little rock set for Christmas and we’re going to explore that since all our rocks are under billows of snow right now.

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Snow Unit Study

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January 6, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

We’re having fun with winter art and nature study! We plan to learn about snow and winter themes all month long!

We had fun with art and science, learning about snow.

I used painter’s tape to make snowflake shapes and the kids finger-painted the poster.

resistance snowflake art
snowflakes with tape

After the paint dried, I pulled off the tape, and voila! lovely wintry decoration!

finished snowflake art

The kids loved coloring in their winter colors grid. 

winter notebooking

Alex saw orange and purple among all the gray and white. He looked really hard out that window!

bubba.jpg

a fun snowflake magnifying and matching activity with Snowflake Bentley’s snowflake pictures. We will read that book later this week! It’s on hold at the library. also from the winter nature study eBooks.

snowflake magnifying activity

our winter sensory bin table.

When Alex tells you that he’s “making dinner” and then you hear water running, please know that the sensory bin will be soon destroyed. I had originally put packing peanuts in the bin for “snow.” Yeah, those were disintegrated.

snow sensory bin

a fun craft on clearance. little snow fuzzies

snow buddies

our January poem on our monthly theme board

January poem

our January calendar about the Arctic and Antarctica

January calendar board
The Snowman magnets
icicles
snowflake clings
snowman blends
snow playdough
snowflake graphing
making Danish wedding or “snowball” cookies

Our Snowy Activities

  • First Snow Ever
  • Painting Snow
  • Measuring Snow
  • Frozen Bubbles
  • Sledding
  • Snow Fort
  • Winter Tot School
  • Winter Nature Walk
  • Winter Nature Hike
  • Winter Bird Study
  • Winter Unit Study
  • Winter Book List
  • Antarctica Unit

Check out my winter Pinterest board with all the fun ideas I hope to make use of this month!

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  • Year Round Homeschooling
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  • Frugal Homeschooling Mom
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  • Real Life at Home
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  • His Mercy is New
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Chalk Pastel Scrub Jays

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October 22, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We’re studying Leonardo da Vinci in history these next few weeks. Here is one of our texts for Tapestry of Grace Year 2. It’s a biography and it has activities for us to do too! We’re enjoying reading it together. It is very helpful for Katie, a kinesthetic learner to understand Leonardo with a book like this! Tori is a visual learner and loves doing activities too. It helps her remember what we’ve read when she sees her projects completed. Katie has no trouble with narration, but this helps Tori, who stumbles over narration exercises.

We chose to draw a scrub jay since they are prolific in our yard and quite pretty and blue. We looked him up on The Cornell Lab of Ornithology website. Perfect picture to copy!

Western Scrub Jay


This was a new and messy project! We kept paper towels handy.

Blending Pastels


The girls were tickled to learn a new word: scumble. It means to rub the chalk and smear it to make it look softer.

scumbling pastels


Very pleased with herself! Tori is our perfectionist and this gave her a boost of confidence!

Blue Scrub Jay


I like the outline in black. Obviously, I need to acquire more pastels if we’re sharing.

Pastel Jay


My attempt at drawing. I will tell you: I need to do this more often with my girls. It was a bonding experience. It was so relaxing and meditative to sit there and draw. I loved doing this with the girls.

Pastel Scrub Jay

Next time, I will encourage Liz and Alex to join us. I really need to get more pastels then!

We love the pastel art lessons here.

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Texture Painting

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August 15, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

One of our summer bucket list items was to paint and get messy. It wasn’t too hot out yet, so I figured we better get to it. Summer’s almost gone!

First we had some little wooden figures to paint: snakes and tiny birdhouses (from Target dollar spot ages ago). They loved it!

Painting Wood Craft Projects

Painting Toys

Just look at that concentration!

Boy Concentrating on Painting
Girl Painting
Painting a House

Painting with sponges and textures

Then we explored painting different textures on paper with different tools.

We had sponge rollers, mops, scrapers, and everything in between. I love this young artist’s pack.

Sponge Painting
Texture Paint
Painting with Sponges

Here are their finished masterpieces. They look like flower gardens!

I love how they explored color blending and different textures.

Painted Garden
Texture Painting
Fun Painting
Texture Painted Garden
 I did one to show them how to use the tools.
What fun art projects are you doing?
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Painting With Ice

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August 10, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Added food coloring to water and froze it in an ice cube tray.

We painted with it. I think I need to make the colors darker. It was pretty watercolor-looking abstract stuff though. The kids loved it. I think freezing the colored water in muffin tins and using wooden sticks would make for better holding onto. Maybe.

Frozen Fun! Painting with Ice

Painting With Ice
Of course, it was 97* so we painted outside on the driveway.

Ths kids had lots of fun watching the ice melt onto the paper. They explored and learned.

Painting with Ice in the Driveway
So happy they didn’t once complain that their hands were cold. They even saved the cubes to try again another day. They really liked this activity!
 
Finger Painting with Ice
Painting with Blue and Green
Ice Painting

Then we wanted to eat ice!

Homemade frozen pops! I found this cute little pop tray at Walmart, I think.
Homemade Frozen Pops

We made tropical punch Kool-Aid, homemade lemonade, and grape Kool-Aid popsicles. They were yummy and the kids loved them! I like the reusable holders.
 
Liz wants to try yogurt pops, pudding pops, ice cream pops, and root beer pops. My, she’s creative.
 
I can’t wait to explore and try healthier alternatives – with no additives, but we’re using up the pantry.
 
Frozen Pops
Their expressions crack me up!
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Creating Books and Math Journals

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March 25, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

These girls are growing by leaps and bounds!

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The girls got a wild hair and starting creating these little books from my leftover paper stash.

They wrote fun facts and illustrated them in the cutest little them books!

They got their Draw Write Now, Book 1: On the Farm-Kids and Critters-Storybook Characters and copied the facts and drawings on cows and turkeys.

They made little St. Patrick’s Day books all on their own with info about leprechauns and rainbows.

Creating Books
Making Books
I just love how they planned this project all on their own. It wasn’t an assignment. They really applied their learning! I love times like these!
We have lots of paper and craft scraps lying around for the girls to use in free play. They got so creative making them into these little books about what they learned.
Creating Books About What We Learned
Food fun! The girls graphed marshmallows from Lucky Charms cereal.
Graphing Lucky Charms cereal

I finally printed math journals.

Katie wasn’t interested this week and I won’t push it. yet. I had these all ready and just set them aside and forgot about them! Tori just loved it. I will do one page each month with a theme.
Here are January’s shapes snowflake and February’s Valentine cookies. We also did gold coins for March’s leprechaun. The ideas are from Jazzy Journals.
January Jazzy Journal

 

The girls are slowly working through Artistic Pursuits Grades K-3 Book 1 An Introduction to Visual Arts.

This week, we drew a picture from a photograph.

I pulled out some old photos and we looked at them and Tori chose one of me at age 4.

Katie chose an adorable pic of her sister, Elizabeth, as a baby in an Easter bonnet. My main focus for Tori is confidence in her drawing. She is such a perfectionist that she gets paralyzed.

I have really enjoyed seeing the girls learn this month.

They have grown leaps and bounds and can read and write so well – all of a sudden!

We read about Alexander the Great and the beginnings of Rome in history.
We’re almost finished with our astronomy study in science. We read about the outer planets. We’ll do the Earth and Moon this week.

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Story Art

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January 14, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

I set up a class at our winter homeschool co-op using the story+art ideas from A Mommy’s Adventures.

story+art=StArt

I have a theme each week and check out books from the library and bring art supplies for a craft. There are about a dozen kids signed up, grades K-2, including my Tori and Katie (for whom I planned the class).

Last week, we read some ABC books and did initial collages.

I had all sorts of collage materials, hoping to appeal to all the boys and girls: moss, rocks, sequins, shells, beads, jewels, stickers…

We all got a kick out of this alphabet book: A is for Salad. The pictures illustrate the letter, but the words say something a little different.

Victoria’s and Katherine’s initial collages:

Initial Collages

I did one with Alex at home. He was so proud!

Making Initial Collage
Gluing His Letter

I couldn’t get the ‘A’ to print straight. Oh well, he didn’t mind.

Letter A Collage

This week, we read about dots and did Do-A-Dot pages.

Those were a real hit!

Sea Turtle Dot Painting
Seahorse Dot Painting

I got the dot printables from Making Learning Fun. We used the theme of Swimming Creatures to go along with our Apologia Science class.

Resources:

  • Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book
  • A is for Salad
  • The Dot
  • Press Here
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Painting Snow

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March 4, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 7 Comments

We’ve all been rather under the weather around here last week, so we didn’t do a whole lot of preschool.

Painting Snow Art Time

Here are the girls painting snow.

We used liquid watercolors.

That was a big hit! They loved that!

Painting Snow
They had lots of fun playing with colors in the snow.
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