We’ve had a wonderful month of nature study! I don’t know whether the fruits and nuts were abundant enough to make our nature studies such a success or the weather was so picture perfect that anything would’ve been a success. Either way, we had fun!  We’re off to study ponds in October!
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We have LOVED our time spent with Rousseau, but now it’s time to move on to French sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
Henri Rousseau

Olga’s Gallery

Landscape with Cattle

View of Bridge Sevres

The Football Players

Monkeys in a Jungle
Lesson Ideas
Princeton Online – Several Ideas
KinderArt – Fantasy Jungle
Lesson Plan Page – Stained Glass
Books We Read

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Vivaldi’s music and story have made for wonderful studies this month!   We’re off to a more contemporary composer, George Gershwin, for the month of October.
Antonio Vivaldi

Classics for Kids
Book We Read

CD’s We Listened To

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When you think of the Creation Museum, the first thoughts that pop into your head are probably things like Bible truths, dinosaurs, Noah and the flood, the need for Jesus and so on.  We took a tad different approach to the normal routine of simply touring the museum this time around.  Even though it rained [...]

I am loving Henri Rousseau’s style.  It’s somewhat of a folk style with lots of bright colors.  Combine that with whimsical scenes and it makes me smile.  So many of the artists we’ve studied have been too serious for me, but the lighter side of Rousseau has revived my artist’s eye!
Rousseau spent many days studying, [...]