The Horrible History series, by Terry Deary, is a fun way to read about history. The series looks at history from an unusual perspective. Most gross, disgusting things are covered with a strong dose of humor. Our fourth grader read this book, The Measly Middle Ages, this past fall and loved it. Our first grader [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The Measly Middle Ages
Posted in Books, tagged Books on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Murals, YAY!
Posted in Art Projects, tagged art project, kids art, mural on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This mural is 56 x 36 inches and is made of 32 letter sized pages. Not all of the pages have something to color on them. The recommended tool for coloring is oil pastels, but I don’t know how to seal oil pastels so we used markers. It took us several weeks to color all [...]
Fresco
Posted in Art Projects, tagged Art Projects on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We painted frescos after reading about Giotto and studying his painting The Lamentation of Christ. Our first grader took this project seriously remembering that Giotto was one of the first artists to show expression in the faces of the people he painted. She also took note of how expensive and rare blue paint was in [...]
5 Children and It
Posted in Movies, tagged movie movies on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We watched this movie after reading the classic story written by Edith Nesbit. Our fourth grader liked the movie and feels the special effects were nice. Our first grader thought it was very funny but it wasn’t really like the book. Actually it was NOTHING like the book! We give this movie four stars
