Can you pick an artist for any of these?
Sunday, August 18, 2013
School is starting AGAIN???
Well summer still holds on to a few more weeks so I don't understand WHY??????? school is starting already! Not to be a complaining monster, but every year when the kids go back to school, the pool closes. And IT IS STILL SUMMER. Ok I suppose that is enough of that. Let's move on.
Who knows how much time before the littles wake up. I have already played my Candy Crush Saga and my Farm Saga. I got dressed, though I must admit that I haven't showered yet. I took the dogs out for their daily morning walk. And now I am back at the computer on, of all sights, Pinterest.
Do you like pinterest? I have a love/hate relationship with it. It is so full of brilliant ideas. I could spend all day on it saying, "why didn't I think of that??" The hate part is how I said I can spend all day on it. When I want to keep a recipe that I saw on Facebook, I can usually go to Pinterest and find it. Then I have it forever. or at least until SHIF and the computers crash, blah blah. Then I'm screwed.
I digress.
Bree, as you know, has been MIA from any schoolish work over the last few years. She pretty much decided that if she is going to be an unschooler, she is going to rebel against all and any schoolish learning. And she has succeeded magnificently, IMHO.
Of course we have had a co op (affectionately titled COOP) where she has taken classes in art, cake decorating, and such. But never.... NEVER science or math. Never US history. Never English.
So this year she decided, now that she is in High School, she will do some "work". Algebra through KEY TO. I used it for Josh and it was a breeze. And a science from Apologia... I am still deciding which one. History "Lies My Teacher Told Me". (That is right I haven't ordered the books yet. Thanks for noticing my one of my weaknesses.)
Bret and Marley have asked for 21 days of Painless Math again. (This is a curriculum put together by me, not a book.) We work on basic skills (no drills) for 21 days. After 21 days we go out for a treat. Also I bought a few workbooks for them to fine tune their logic skills. If they don't like them I will have to put them away and call it money wasted.
Oh I did it again. I was talking about Pinterest for a reason. Because I came across a teacher art page that I loved. Then that brought me to another one and so on and so on. Which made me decide to do what I have wanted to do for years. History and art combo. Because how fun is art!
So anyway. A couple resources to get me started. First an art scavenger hunt...
Next my first idea...
Found here...
http://pinterest.com/pin/280067670547020492/
Essencially how to use oil pastels to make your own Modigliani... For example made by a student.
OK so some more great ideas that are maybes in my repertoire for oil pastels on the next post. (That is how I ended up on Pinterest. We just bought some oil pastels and I wanted some creative ideas to give the kids about how to use them.)
Who knows how much time before the littles wake up. I have already played my Candy Crush Saga and my Farm Saga. I got dressed, though I must admit that I haven't showered yet. I took the dogs out for their daily morning walk. And now I am back at the computer on, of all sights, Pinterest.
Do you like pinterest? I have a love/hate relationship with it. It is so full of brilliant ideas. I could spend all day on it saying, "why didn't I think of that??" The hate part is how I said I can spend all day on it. When I want to keep a recipe that I saw on Facebook, I can usually go to Pinterest and find it. Then I have it forever. or at least until SHIF and the computers crash, blah blah. Then I'm screwed.
I digress.
Bree, as you know, has been MIA from any schoolish work over the last few years. She pretty much decided that if she is going to be an unschooler, she is going to rebel against all and any schoolish learning. And she has succeeded magnificently, IMHO.
Of course we have had a co op (affectionately titled COOP) where she has taken classes in art, cake decorating, and such. But never.... NEVER science or math. Never US history. Never English.
So this year she decided, now that she is in High School, she will do some "work". Algebra through KEY TO. I used it for Josh and it was a breeze. And a science from Apologia... I am still deciding which one. History "Lies My Teacher Told Me". (That is right I haven't ordered the books yet. Thanks for noticing my one of my weaknesses.)
Bret and Marley have asked for 21 days of Painless Math again. (This is a curriculum put together by me, not a book.) We work on basic skills (no drills) for 21 days. After 21 days we go out for a treat. Also I bought a few workbooks for them to fine tune their logic skills. If they don't like them I will have to put them away and call it money wasted.
Oh I did it again. I was talking about Pinterest for a reason. Because I came across a teacher art page that I loved. Then that brought me to another one and so on and so on. Which made me decide to do what I have wanted to do for years. History and art combo. Because how fun is art!
So anyway. A couple resources to get me started. First an art scavenger hunt...
Found here...
http://pinterest.com/pin/280067670547020492/
Essencially how to use oil pastels to make your own Modigliani... For example made by a student.
OK so some more great ideas that are maybes in my repertoire for oil pastels on the next post. (That is how I ended up on Pinterest. We just bought some oil pastels and I wanted some creative ideas to give the kids about how to use them.)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)