Art Week

 This week was Art Week. K loves art so we made it a point to do at least one art project every day, sometimes more. Unless otherwise noted, these ideas came from Mia Academy.

Birch Tree Art

K's

A2

J's

Art for Kids Hub- Fruit Stack

K made one from him and one for A2

A2 started coloring the apple red,
and then went a little happy with the crayons.

J drew a windy day at the beach

Kittens

K's

J's

Art for Kids Hub- Mother's Day flowers 

(K drew them both, he colored the top, A2 colored the bottom.

Straw Blown Cherry Blossom Trees

K's

A2's

J's

High Contrast Hand Art

J's

A2's

K's

Art for Kids Hub- Wide Mouth Frog

3D painting (K's on left, A2's on right)

Art for Kids Hub- Minecraft Guys by K

A1 does not like art, so he did not participate. He did, however, finished Earth Science and Language Arts on Mia Academy. 

He also built a Crunch Labs kit.

And engineered a candy dispensing machine out of Legos.

He is also advancing quickly in piano lessons and enjoys making up his own songs. We love to hear him play.

He created a fruit salad from his Minecraft Cookbook.

And we did math.

Long division was extremely confusion to him. On his own, he discovered a trick to make it easier. He has great critical thinking skills.

On the left, is the long division I was taught in school. There is also the box method. 

Both of these use the order of operations: divide, multiply, subtract, add, and repeat until you have gone all the way to ones place (or last decimal place if dividing decimals).  Are you confused?  There's an easier way!

In the example above, A1 noticed he knows 60 divided by 5 is 12.  That left him with just the 7 left. He knows 5 goes into 7 one time. 12+1=13. Since 5 doesn't perfectly go into 7, he knew there would be a remainder. 7-5=R2. 

Despite him saying he doesn't like math, he is very good with numbers.

We also enjoyed reviewing some fun multiplication facts.

I just love that 8X7 can be written 5,6,7,8

Grandma helped J learned about sew machines and picked out fabric to start a project.

J also had a health lesson and studied Africa for Geography. Occasionally, we do world events usually from the Good News Network to keep it positive. 

This time we talked a little about the US tariffs on the world and what goals are trying to be achieved by implementing them. We got a really good laugh that two islands inhabited by penguins, but no people, were being tariffed. Poor penguins, but I guess they really don't care.

We're outta here

Science- While our rootfinder seeds didn't grow, our cat grass sprouted quickly. The kids will get to watch it grow if the secretary doesn't eat it all. 

J learned one cat goes wild for dry catnip, but ignores the grass, while the other devours the grass but doesn't react to the dry catnip.

A2 had story time at the library and we did reading at home. We are reading Where the Sidewalk Ends. Poems by Shel Silverstein. 

The three oldest also put on a hilarious slow motion sword fight (with pool noodles) for Drama. A1 makes the best expressive faces.

And the Learning Continues

I guess A1 does create art after all, just on his own terms.