As part of our homeschool geography this past month we studied France, and there are a plethora of artists to learn about, which then led into a homeschool art lesson, which I don’t write about as much here, but we quite enjoyed this Henri Matisse unit study. Who is Henri … [Read more...]
Louisiana: Ol’ Bloo’s Boogie Woogie Band and Blue’s Ensemble
“Ol’ Bloo’s” is a fun retelling of “Bremen’s Town Musicians.” If you’re not familiar with the tale, it’s about 4 old animals who are about to be “put out to pasture,” and decide instead decide to take off into the wide world and become traveling musicians. The kids thought … [Read more...]
What we’ve been reading: The Very Ugly Duckling Dinosaur
We got this book ages ago from the publisher, and I had meant to do an activity with it because it retells one of my favorite fairy tales (and yes I say that about almost all of them), but summer came and we got distracted. And then I found it again! Bingo, fun new activity.So, … [Read more...]
stART: A Very Special Snowflake
With the winter weather we’re having here, I thought to use a couple of snow books for our art project this week, but we only ended up using one of those books, but this one is so cute, it’s worth being just one project.Amazon.com Widgets Synopsis: The two kids go out for a walk … [Read more...]
Preschool Corner: Tornadoes
Okay, actually it’s just one tornado book, and this is one of about 4 posts about tornadoes. Really, we found that many awesome books about them.A Twisted Tale has probably been one of the two favorites from our Kansas study. The kids love reading about the animals getting all … [Read more...]