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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Bunraku Puppetry
Friday we went to a presentation on this amazing Japanese puppetry form held at Mizzou. Oh. Freaking. Wow. The “puppeteers” were from Japan and part of the Imada Puppet Troup. Really, really amazing to watch them manipulate these puppets. It took 3 puppeteers per puppet! Some of their puppets are 100+ years old! After the [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese
Quarter in Review
Due to allergies and a very fun puppetry workshop last week, we didn’t get to do any review for our first quarter. So, we’re doing it this week! Math: I had written up a test that covered each point from this quarter… ended up using it as a review tool. *sigh* One good thing that [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Quarter Review
Fall Art Kit: Leaf Imprint Pendant
Managed to get this one, from the Fall Art Kit, done today even with a field trip in the afternoon. Our “green hour” today was spent petting barnyard animals, running willy-nilly through a hay maze, hay-riding and pumpkin picking. You can’t tell through the paint, but it is a little crispy around the edges. Sam [...]
Posted in Art, Homeschooling, Nature
Fall Art Kit: Fall Banner
Today, as promised, we did the fall banner from the Fall Art Kit. The kids were excited to use the “special markers” we bought just for this project. LOL! Yes, we have other washable markers but these were speeecciiiiaaallll. *giggle* Sam and I painted the glue solution while discusing the nature of a “solution.” (Who [...]
Posted in Art, Homeschooling, Nature
Fall Art Kit: Warm Colors Exercises
Today we did the warm colors exercises from the Fall Art Kit. This is Sam’s two efforts at the watercolor portion. I REALLY like the first one. He (as any artist) doesn’t like it. In the second one, he really enjoyed playing with the watercolors on wet paper. Oh, that’s right. This wasn’t in the [...]
Posted in Art, Homeschooling, Nature
Fall Art Kit
I purchased one of them from Hearts and Trees and we started using it today. This is my leaf rubbing with the kanji for “leaf.” I just happened to run across that kanji in Eve Kushner’s post over at Jpod101 blogs. I wonder if there’s anyway (besides the iron paper for your printer) to get [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Nature