I think, we had quite an artsy kind of day today - lots of coloring and drawing. A lot of it was done in our art class that we had last. We started reading about Leonardo da Vinci and discovered a fantastic book called "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds. Following the story in the book, I gave Andrew and Saara a sheet of paper with just a line drawn on it. And asked to come up with ideas what the line could be a part of (side of a pool, of a mountain, horizon, house, etc.) I gave them time to take the line and see where it would take them. Andrew ended up with a desert scenery and Saara with turtles on mountain tops.
In Science yesterday, Andrew read about different bears in the world. Today, I showed him a few YouTube videos and pulled out some photos of bears (again) from our visits to the zoo. A video on sloth bears in India was a long one, so Andrew asked me if he could finish it tonight. He did watch the whole program before supper. Besides the bears, the video showed a lot of other wildlife in India. A great piece to watch:
BBC Natural World
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| Bible. The morning art - while I was reading the story of the tower of Babel, the kids colored a picture about it. |
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| Science. Andrew is learning about different animals and their habitats in the world. Today we watched a number of videos on brown bears, spectacled bears, sloth bears, and polar bears. A lot of bears. |
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| Science. Saara in Kindergarten is doing the same experiments Andrew did a couple of years ago. Moving air can make things move from 2011 (with the balloons) and today. |
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| Science. Since Andrew learned about air in his Kindergarten class, Saara has remembered that an empty bottle is not really empty, it is full of air. |
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| Art. A simple line led Saara to a picture of an open book. "The Dot" is one of the best books I have read in a long time. |
