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Visual Arts: Week 4 + Mini Beast Week

This week we explored shapes and printmaking with our @harborandsprout curriculum and finished up our farm guide from @thepeacefulpress. Friday we had an awesome nature study on mini beasts! Goodbye September, hello October!

Visual Arts: Week 3 + Autumn Equinox Week

This week at home we started by learning about the human eye, read about Michelangelo, and looked at art by Raku Inoue. Elliot made a beautiful mixed media collage inspired by his work. Then the rest of our studies focused on the autumn equinox with lessons about how people celebrate, pumpkins, and apples! We are all excited that fall is finally here and happy to say BYE BYE to summer Eye unit,…

Visual Arts: Week 2 + Leaf Week

This week Elliot and I explored lots of interesting subjects and he had a great first week at the co-op. He will be learning math, LA, art, spanish and holistic health there and so much more at home. Here is a recap: Geography: landformsNature Study: farm animals and chicken Study, harvest moonArt History: Leonardo da VinciArt: techniques, the golden ratio and the rule of thirds⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Always…

Visual Arts: Week 1 + Seed Week

This first week of kindergarten was a blast. The subjects we covered were: Art: comic strips, drawing, potato stamps, colors, seed mosaics, and photography (Elliot took his first self-portrait)Nature: farming, farmer’s markets and seeds (#enwcseedweek)History: cave paintings and pigmentsMath: counting moneyReading: @dashintolearningWriting: comic strip story and veggie stand signs Excited for…

Elliot and I had more botany fun this week with a ton of cool lessons. People we learned about were Carl Linnaeus and Agnes Arber, along with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, greenhouses and herbs. We also looked at some nice art, played games, had an awesome music lesson about crescendos, and read about some cool plants. And of course we fit in some fun math lessons, stories, phonics/sight words,…

Botany: Week 2 and Summer Pond Week

This week we learned more about plants and botany. We covered leaf shapes, photosynthesis, the philosopher Theophrastus, how to use a compass, had a little garden study, looked at some beautiful paintings, and enjoyed a few art sessions. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s also #enwcsummerpondweek so we joined in with all things pond life and visited our local preserve to explore. Keeping busy over here as usual…

Botany: Week 1 & Senses Walk Week

This week we started the new @harborandsprout curriculum and love it! The theme for this month is botany so for the rest of August we will explore all things plants, as well as continue with the @raisinglittleshoots nature curriculum. I also follow @discoverwildlearning for our math lessons. We covered a ton this week! Parts of a plant, plant cells, what plants need to live, seeds, pollination,…