PROJECT LIFE
TWENTY TWELVE
HOME ED FIRST WEEK
IN PICTURES:
Mister Seahorse is wonderful book (both visually & literally) by Eric Carle. It is all about the daddy caretakers of the sea. I had no idea there were so many - I learned quite a few new things from this book myself!
Last week's trial run of home education with a toddler running amok was a doozy to say the least but this week we ROCKED it! :)
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| Unit Study and Lit fun using Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle. I have to remember to feed these critters before we do a school lesson. wink. |
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| counting by 5's and by 2's |
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| Do-A-Dots are Cai's favorite! |
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| finger paint/color blending lesson |
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| I used sheets from Learning Fun dot com |
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| Yarn "sewing" hair onto Mr Seahorse |
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| scissors and wool for tot school |
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| kept her busy |
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| while he was working on fine motor skills |
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| ...and creating a yarn "mane" for Mr Seahorse |
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| working that wool |
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| so cute! |
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| lining up crayons and playing "battle" with them |
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| Finished product |
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| shaving cream in a bag |
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| ...makes a lovely sensory tool |
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| for practicing letters. Ssss for Seahorse :) |
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| working on cutting |
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| Shaving cream art! (while munching on Pizza from our Pizza Day) |
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| this was shaving cream with water colors and sparkles added on top |
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| then gently smooth it around with a paint brush |
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| pretty! |
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| once it is mixed up and just so... |
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| we added the Seahorse cutout |
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| mixing |
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| and getting in trouble for tasting |
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| I used a piece of cardboard to wipe away the excess |
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| while he did his own messy thing,... |
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| and we got a very beautiful marble type of copy on the Seahorse |
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| while it was drying... |
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| this girl decided to marble herself |
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| and make body art. ha! |
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| soon after this 2nd masterpiece, a bath was drawn, 2nd for the day. sigh. |
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| Silly Platypus |
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| his shirt tells it all. giggle. |
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| we did an Oil Pastel art lesson (MY favorite medium) |
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| he was instructed to go buck wild with the colors and create an ocean for the Seahorse to live in |
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| "waves and people surfing" |
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| and then we glued the finger painted seahorse and an eyeball to the ocean scene |
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| pencil writing |
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| more do-a-dots |
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| after the shaving cream art dried totally, we cut and glued a fin and spikes onto him |
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| Cai made an extra seahorse ("a man needs a wife, ya know, Mama??") |
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| he used glue drops for the "babies" (eggs) that the male seahorse carries until they hatch |
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| glue art...apparantly |
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| it turned out pretty too! |
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| air dry clay |
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| a foot for the nature table (he is anticipating looking for animal tracks in the woods next week) |
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| just trouble. enough said. |
"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners." ~John Holt