Drawing With (My) Children: Lesson 3
My oldest daughter has been drawing quite passionately since our last lesson - she will sit at the table for an hour or more at a time with her sketch book and work away on her pictures. One day last week I invited her to join me with our books and a pile of...
Drawing With (My) Children: Lesson 2
With much excitement and anticipation, we moved on to Lesson 2 in Drawing With Children! Since our first lesson, Big Sister has been very interested in drawing. She worked her way through Ed' Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals while waiting for her next lesson. It's...
Drawing with (My) Children: Lesson 1
So far, we have been having a lot of fun with Drawing with Children! I bought a sketch pad for each of us to use for our drawing lessons to increase the "specialness" factor with the kids. I'm also hoping that when we are done they will be pleased to have all their...
Drawing With (My) Children: Our Homeschool Experience Using the Monart Method
A recent addition to our homeschooling activities has been the introduction of "art class". For our first few sessions I did some searching online for tutorials and ideas and came up with some simple yet enjoyable projects. The first was crayon etchings, and the...
Ditching What Doesn’t Work and Finding What Does
When we began our first-grade spelling lessons last year, it took me a little while to figure out that what we were doing wasn't working for my daughter. Did she protest when I brought out her spelling book? No. Did she drag her heels and take forever to complete her...
“Mom, can we do History?”
We've just begun the second volume of Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World. My original plan was to complete one volume each year. We would begin in first grade and make our way through history from the ancients all the way to our current times in a four year cycle...
