Monthly Archives: January 2011

Draw Write Now + Drawing With Children

Oh Draw Write Now, how do we love thee? Let me count the ways! For art, we are combining several different resources. First we are working our way through Drawing With Children. While it’s a great book, it’s a little difficult to break down into nice neat little lessons. This lesson plan link for Drawing...

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Learning Geography by Heart

We are in the very beginning phases of learning to draw the world by heart. We are using the ideas found in The Core concerning geography. We began by adding the 5 great circles to our memory work. The five great circles are The Arctic Circle, The Tropic of Cancer, The Equator, the Tropic of...

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Invention – Wordless Wednesday

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A little bit of snow and an experiment

It’s been very cold this week! I don’t mind because I actually like that it kept us snuggled up in the house learning and reading and playing and just spending time together. It’s not often that we see much snow around here so when we woke up and saw the snow coming down at about...

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