First Week of Summer School!

First week of Summer School and it was so much fun.  Also, got quite a few more pictures than usual because it's just more fun to take pictures of arts and crafts, as opposed to math books and phonics!

We got this super cool kit from the Hansons.  Flowers were from our garden.

Tightening it down.  Next week, we'll take them out and make some cards for the Grandmas!

Notice how Sissi's pressed flowers are now her doll's tea party table.

We learned about China, South Korea, Japan, and India this week for Expedition Earth.

In China, we would all be 1 year older, because they are considered 1 at birth.

Cutting out South Korea's flag to put in our passport.

In South Korea, the number 4 is considered unlucky...there are no '4th' floors in buildings and you don't want many 4's in your phone number either.  Krypto wondered why then they put the 4 Taoist symbols of harmony, symmetry, balance, and circulation in the 4 corners of their flag?  Anyone know?

We started our Artist series this week, too.

This week, Pablo Picasso.  Here the kids are doing "Girl Before a Mirror," you can see it on the book in the background.

Gwangi really does love art.

This is Krypto's attempt.

Working on India here, coloring our flag, and copying the facts from the board on the desk.

We translated our names into each of the languages this week, converted money so we could see how much we would get if we visited.  We also learned about how people live by reading the "Children Just Like Me" DK book, learned about the geography of the area, heard music from the different countries, etc.  Today, while learning about the Taj Mahal, we 'wandered' all over while looking at pictures of all the different Wonders of the World.

Just a bit of science, by request.  Doing experiments about the ph of liquids.

Funny comment to share...as I'm cleaning up, Krypto is reading the experiment book and says "Hey Mom, next time we get to do an experiment it will be about the destiny of water."  I'm thinking "What??"  Then I laugh, "Do you mean the DENSITY of water?"  Krypto rather sheepishly, "Oh yeah, that."

Painting Picasso's "Bather with Beach Ball"

Another serious painter here.

Lots of concentration going on from Krypto.

Krypto's final picture.

Sissi's...I had done the pencil drawing for her and she painted it all by herself.

Here is the original

Working on a puzzle to see if they can recreate the "Girl Before the Mirror" and then we did a small lapbook matching 6 of his pieces to their titles.  I think they enjoyed it; but, they all said they didn't want to be "cubist" painters.