Picture this!

The other day I found this great book at the library. So, on this fine summer morning I decided to do a small lesson on Impressionism. We discussed Camille Pissarro's painting entitled The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning. As seen here:

After discussing his techniques there was an opportunity and activity to try out one of the techniques he used in some of his paintings. So here are some of our pictures using oil pastels/crayons and watercolors. We had fun. I made the rule that the kids only had one sheet of paper to work with so they had to really focus on what they wanted to do. Here are our "Pissarro" paintings.

Free Summer Movies

Here are some fun free movies for the summer:

http://www.muvico.com/freefilmfest.asp

http://www.amcentertainment.com/smc/..st

Homeschool Year 3, Day 17 - Favorite Hat Day

This year to make it more exciting, more variety I have thrown in "spirit days". A couple of weeks ago we had orange day. Today was Favorite Hat Day! Here is a picture of the kids with their favorite hats on. In the afternoon we had our activity for History to do and I thought tha tit was appropriate that we had to make Roman Headpieces (which I got from this curriculum). They had fun putting those together, I wish I could say that I had cordinated that, but I didn't. They added beads to make it more decorative. The funny thing is last week we were learning Ancient American and learned about the native americans. So, I had to remind them that it was Ancient Rome that we were making the headpieces for. They kept running around the house yelling for everyone to come to their Indianland. Oh, well, at least they remembered what we learned LAST WEEK! I think we might have to do a review of Rome next week. 8-)

It is official...I will be a Marathon runner, well a half of one anyway!

So I have officially signed up for the Chicago Half Marathon!! Yes, those that know me know I am not a runner, but I will be by August. I found this picture that says it is on the 9th, but it is actually on AUGUST 2nd for those that want to come and cheer me on or maybe join me for that matter! I will be officially signing up to run for World Vision to raise money for kids in Africa. What better way to get energized to run!!! Come and join me for a great time and to help kids in Africa, and for nothing else so I won't be doing it alone!!! 8-) Click the picture to link yourself to the website.