GB is not really into art. We’ve got plenty of opportunities because our homeschool group is very active in art studies. But GB didn’t want anything too formal.
But for his middle school years I really wanted to offer more in the way of art. I’ve been finding projects on blogs for him to duplicate. And [...]
This morning I had to pick my bil up from surgery (He’s ok). And the whole way there I kept being awed by the spectacular color of the Fall foliage this year. This is the best year I’ve seen in many. And my bil and I marveled all the way home.
Then, when I got home, [...]
Nope!
Paper lunch bags and glue. Yep, I swear!
This was my part of the “yes” day. I wanted to do a craft.
First we made a pattern from a poplar leaf.
And cut out a bunch of them, enough to have two sides for eight or nine leaves.
We squeezed glue all over one leaf….
………. bent a floral wire [...]
Despite wreckage caused by unsuspecting visitors, GB and I were able to construct and mark this solar clock today. It was pretty fun to run outside every hour and mark the sun’s progress.
We used a long stick that we had just laying around in the garage, and we poked it into a blob of clay, [...]
Today was an excellent homeschool day. GB liked it because he didn’t have to write. And I liked it because we learned a lot and got a lot accomplished.
We started with our Tomatosphere project plantings. We got 33 seeds in the ‘A’ packet and 37 seeds in the ‘B’ packet. So we planted all but [...]
GB worked for a long time weaving this tiny colonial blanket for our Colonial Unit.
In fact, he had to take a few days to finish it. I would have thought that he would have been bored by the tediousness of the weaving, but he wasn’t. He actually seemed to like it. I kind of liked [...]
