Creatures!!

Today's lesson centered on creativity. This is a group of Christian homeschoolers so I asked them to reflect on God's amazing creativity in the construction of our universe. The kids viewed their paint splotches from last week, cut them out and reassembled them into imaginary creatures.

Above: Kate, Kristin, Priscilla, Kelton and Canyon with their other worldy creatures.

BUNNIES! A bunch of baby bunnies were visiting the CFS campus today. Sooooo CUTE!


FAREWELL JOSH! Josh will be leaving to go to school in Japan. Good luck, we'd love to have a field trip to come visit you!

Elements of Art: Color

From top: Rachel, Kelton, Calab, Sarah, art by Hannah W., Sarah W. and Kate.

Class started with a discussion of color and how it comes from light and pigment. We studied the color wheel, learning about primary, secondary,intermediate and complementary colors. I was determined to get some concepts into them so we went on to discuss triadic, analogous and monochromatic color harmonies and looked at examples of these in contemporary and historic paintings.

After that, we explored color mixing in a simple, yet extremely fun, activity using just primary colors. This generated a lot of excitement as the kids discovered pictures in their creations. I can't wait to see what they do with these "splotches" next week!

New Classes!

This week I started new classes for the CFS homeschool group.

Parents, here you can see what we did in class and what some of the concepts discussed were.

Our lesson was inspired by Mola embroideries made by the Kuna Indians of the San Blas islands near Panama. Much of the discussion was about sewing because many of my students didn't know what that was! I guess it's a dying craft.... I'll have to offer a sewing project sometime.

The assignment was to observe the different stitches and patterns used to decorate the Mola samples and to then then create an animal design decorated in a similar fashion using oil pastels rather than thread.

Caleb

Abigail

Benjamin

Nathan

Kaitlyn and Kate