I realised on the weekend that we hadn't done any 'Art' this year, and we needed to pull off an art project el pronto! The boys are really NOT into art whatsoever, so I suggested to them that we do 'graffit' on a canvas using spray cans. Joel would have none of it (tough crowd!) and came up with his own idea. He wanted to make a QR code of his Bleach Boys business website. We went through lots of options of what to use and came up with 'window sealing'! (You can tell his dad is a handyman!) So Helpful Hubby helped Joel make a 'jig' in the shed to measure out tiny squares 9mm x 9mm, using a wood block and a hinge. Then he spent countless hours measuring, cutting and sticking tiny squares onto corflute! He's a very patient fellow is our Joel! Ta da!! And yes, it's even scannable!! And I think that accounts for art, maths, technology and business studies! Go Joel! Meanwhile Daniel and I worked on a graffiti piece for his bedroom, using his basketball colours 'Hope Valley Heat' and had fun with some spray paint outside. Then I had the inspiration from puzzles I had bought Joel & Daniel for their birthdays last year (sadly the puzzle craze seems to be over), and researched 'naive painting' which is apparently the genre of these two puzzles by an Australian artist - Narelle Wildman. I figured we could do a puzzle depicting an art piece instead of actually creating an art piece. I think the boys will be amenable to that if I suggest doing the puzzle during school time!! And then I got carried away and made a 30 page art project for them, complete with folders. It includes 7 pages that I put together about Naive art which will involve them making a video, writing an 'artist statement', watching a few you tubes, analysing of a piece of naive art and writing up a bit about an Australian naive artist. Then I happened to come across an amazing resource on the internet - I think it was for a year 7 class in the U.K about the formal elements of art. It is a workbook style & I cut it back to about 23 pages. Voilà! We are now set to cover off art in detail :-) I think I will keep this project until the last week of this term when we will hopefully have finished our Geography curriculum and have a bit more free time. Meanwhile the boys wrote a 'recount' of their favourite day on our Queensland holiday, which happened to be Dreamworld. Daniel had fun 'threshing wheat' (agpanthus) from the garden during a school break. Very therapeutic I'm sure! The Grass Guys (or mini Meerkats) were off to their first job at a house down our road under the supervision of Mr Meerkat with the lawnmower, whipper snipper and blower in tow! The first 'Writing Club Challenge' was to write a play based on a Bible story. Joel wrote about the '5 loaves & 2 fish', and Daniel of course did 'Daniel in the Lion's Den'. We used Microsoft Designer to make a simple 'SOS' poster for an endangered species in Sumatra for Geography. The rhino poster unfortunately got deleted by mistake - not once but twice! No coercing or bribing would work to have a third go, so that poster is officially extinct. Daniel made a Dreamworld rollercoaster 'marble run' out of old posters - complete with a 'Tornado' shute based on a ride at Wet and Wild! The Gold Coast holiday lives on!
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Sarah lives in Adelaide, South Australia and has the pleasure of homeschooling (aka 'community-schooling') her twin boys. This blog is a journal of the fun times they have together on the learning journey of life! Archives
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