Fresco Painting

| August 18, 2010

We focus on art on Wednesdays each week.  This week we’ve learned a little more about Michelangelo.  So today my daughter had a wonderful time creating a fresco painting, which Michelangelo was known for. This was a very fun project and I plan to try doing some different things with plaster.  I have some ideas [...]

Global Journey Music

| July 30, 2010

Recently, over at my business site Shining Dawn Books, I posted a glowing review for nature music CD’s from Global Journey Music.  In addition to the CD’s related to nature I also was given the pleasure to review four children’s music CD’s and three classical music CD’s.  Below are the selections I was given: What [...]

Art on the Computer

| July 26, 2010

I’m Back!  I’m happy to report the calendar commitments have settled down quite a bit here.  We will be starting up our school year next Monday (8-2) and it seems the month prior to that is always filled with things to do before the end of summer break. Anyways, I’d like to post something here [...]

Sidewalk Chalk Festival

| May 22, 2010

Our city holds a Sidewalk Chalk Festival each year where local artists come out to show their amazing artistic skills with chalk and try to get your vote.  This along with yummy local diner food and the Kona Ice truck made this a wonderful experience! There were two main categories to vote for: high school [...]

When All the World is Full of Snow

| January 17, 2010

For our poetry this past week we focused on the poem, When All the World is Full of Snow by N.M. Bodecker. This beautiful poem is excellent to read for vivid metaphors such as…”and swarming frost flakes fill the trees with billions of albino bees.” Whenever we read poetry it seems to inspire art, so [...]

Classical Music Journal

| September 16, 2009

This month we have moved on to studying a new composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.     I have made up a journal/worksheet for my kids to grab and use. If you would like to download the Classical Music Journal, click on the link below.