Land - Week 3

 

Continuing our study of land this week, Wendy focused on perspective and

the different parts of landscape art (foreground, middle ground and background)

 

 

 

 

 

Wendy using her hands to show how things that are in the foreground appear larger even if they are really the same size.

 

 

Using their thumbs the kids tried to cover three spools of thread as they looked at them with one eye closed. They discovered they couldn't cover the one in the foreground. They were able to cover a little more of the spool in the middle ground and finally their thumb was able to make the spool in the background completely "disappear".

 

 

 

 

 

Wendy taught us how to break up our page into foreground, middle ground and background with a giant "Z".  

 

 

 

The kids used the chalk to color their papers and then added in a variety of sizes

 (small, medium and large) to the foreground, middle ground and background.

 

 

Artists' hard at work.

 

 

Some of the finished artwork.

Land - week 2

Brandy gave the kids a lesson this week all about the earth, it's layers, mountains, and earthquakes. 

She had a fabulous book with lots of earth facts, pictures, and even pop ups. We learned different ways mountains are formed. 

She spent most of the time talking about earthquakes. This is a website that shows what earthquakes are happening minute by minute. There's a lot going on in Alaska.

She told them about the Richter scale and how it measures the size of the earthquakes. 

Then, she had a earthquake simulator where block houses experienced real earthquakes. The kids are watching to see which structure will stand the best.

The kids got to build their own structures, too. Whose will be able to withstand the earthquake? 

We had a homemade seismograph that showed us how big our earthquakes were.

And don't forget about those under water earthquakes. What happens when we have a typhoon? 

Julie had a rabbit show coming up, so she brought her rabbit along to get some practice... 

The kids got to ask questions and pet it, too.

Land - Week 1

 ^"And God said, 'Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.' And it was so.  God called the dry ground 'land,'..."

It's the first week of day 3 of our Creation Unit. Jenny helped the kids make terrariums out of coke bottles. First we sang our water cycle song.... (tune of She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain")

Then we filled the bottoms of our coke bottles with rocks and soil.

The kids got to pick from a few flower seeds to plant in their terrariums. And then we added water.

Even the babies got to do some. Wait! What babies?? They're getting too big to call them that, now. 

We had our Creation coloring sheets to color. 

And then a fun snack of dirt and worms.... 

Some of them weren't so sure about eating dirt, but it taste yummy when it's made from oreos and chocolate pudding.

This is one of our terrariums after about a week. It worked!!

Konnor had a SUPER lose tooth. After several tries, I got a piece of floss wrapped around it. He told me that he didn't want me to pull it, so I told him I'd just get the floss back off. Well, I lied. I yanked it instead. It came out SOOO easy. He was super pumped to have that sucker out of there. You can even see the adult tooth coming in.