I realized today that I had not posted anything since Monday. It was a good week. Both kids made progress. Grammar-they are working on different types of nouns. M-abstract and concrete; B-nominative and objective pronouns. Math-M is working on measurements-how many pounds in a ton, how many feet in a mile. B is reducing fractions. History-B is learning about the persecution of the Jews during the middle ages and M is learning about monks and nuns. During the week they played Spelling tic-tac-toe. They each had the others spelling lists and they had to spell a word correctly to get a space on the board. This entertained them for about 1/2 an hour. M has also been addicted to Mad Libs. She wants to do them all day long. I encourage it because I can't think of a better way to reinforce nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, and adverbs. Plus a dose of ultimate silliness.
Thursday we headed out to The Montclair Art Museum for a Figure Drawing class. Miss Peg took the kids through the galleries and they discussed different kinds of portraits and full figure paintings. Most of the kids liked Impressionism, quite a few of the parents did not. Realists. After the gallery they headed downstairs to try their hand at drawing a model.
Here is Miss Peg discussing foreshortening. She gave an overview of drawing shapes and then going back over them to give detail (along with a demonstration) and she taught one method of getting the correct proportions (fold the paper in half. Your waist is about at the middle of the page. Legs make up the rest of your body).
M working on the models leg.
B concentrating on his drawing. Trying to get those proportions just right.
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