I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 19th, 2013
This week’s anatomy lesson had us making a model of blood with corn syrup, red hots, dried beans, and split peas. Then a coloring page reinforced the main four components of blood. And this is as much blood as I can handle teaching. We’ll be outsourcing to Grandma Willett once they get up to looking […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 18th, 2013
Tommy went to work with Daddy on Wednesday and kept a journal of the day’s activities:
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 16th, 2013
The last thing I wanted to do while super sick last week was a messy art project, so we waited ’til people started feeling better and learned about mosaics this week. I started by showing the kids pictures of the mosaics Derek and I saw in Ostia during our Italy trip in 2010. Tommy was […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 4th, 2013
Yesterday Grandma and Grandpa stayed home with the girls while Tommy and I went to CBS. I came out of small group to the big room for the teaching, and Julie, the children’s director, passed me and said, “Don’t be surprised if you see your little guy–we have a surprise for you!” Sure enough, Tommy […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Sep 30th, 2013
Derek’s students didn’t leave until dark last night, so we left the table and chairs outside. The kids loved having “open air school” today! (And yes, we are painting again.)
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 25th, 2013
This morning, we packed up the car and headed into the Valley with our homeschooling friends Katie and Jack to visit the Getty Museum. Our excuse was wanting to see their four Monet paintings to finish up our month studying Monet, but in typical field trip fashion, we spent less than 10 minutes in the […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Sep 13th, 2013
The kids just LOVE our fine art “special” for September. We’ve been reading about and watching movies about Monet, and it has inspired a frenzy of painting. Tommy has created our own “art corner” in the family room, and we’ve used up an obscene amount of art supplies every day we’re at home. (Family–art supplies, […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Aug 28th, 2013
Disclaimer up front: I have no creative ideas on my own. They all come from pinterest. Where was pinterest when I was teaching art?! Last week, we painted with Lizzie’s flowers from Grandma that were finally past their prime. Huge hit–must do again! NB: It is very difficult to document most of our art projects, […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Tommy on Aug 26th, 2013
I posted on Everything to Someone this morning about our homeschool plans for the year. But I thought I’d add a few more details here! Three weeks into school, I think we’re finding our groove. You can see that I’ve organized everything by bins. We have one for art supplies, one for school supplies and […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 17th, 2013
A homeschooling friend just told us about Art Trek open studio nights, a monthly night out to an art studio full of fun art activities for all ages. We decided we’d go this week and check it out. For $5 apiece, we could do as much art as we wanted–chalk drawings, painting on books and […]