Sir Gus
The final activity for one of Shecklet #4’s ELA units was making a tin foil version of the main character, Sir Gus.
Tag: art
Watercolor tribute 🎨
During the month of October, a local artist, Bernadette Gockowski, offered to paint watercolor cards with the name (or names) for mothers of a baby (or babies) who died before they were born. I received our name card during Advent, which was a beautiful gift.
Creativity overflowing
Shecklet #2 created a little bug character (he’s in the upper left corner surrounded by black) a little year ago or so and has been drawing him ever since. He took his four page scene and expanded it over the summer. (He took this picture to show his art teacher.) He even let his siblings contribute a little bit. It’s really impressive up close!
Popcorn party & Yoda
One of the local movie theaters is selling enormous bags of popcorn. We bought one and had movie night at home.
Shecklet #2 also used his painting skills today to paint Baby Yoda on our deck door window. It turned out great!
Window painting
There’s a window painting project being posted on social media right now so we decided to jump on the bandwagon. (The boys were able to count it as their weekly art assignment.)
Week 1 of e-learning – done
We survived our first week of e-learning. The Shecklets eased in to things – technology, managing time to complete choice board assignments, corresponding with teachers via video chat, email, and messaging – and seemed to enjoy what they were doing. I think they all agree they miss “real” school, but they are doing their best to make the most of a unique situation.
I’m really proud of how they have handled the last three weeks at home. They have hardly left the house but have taken advantage of the few nice days we’ve had to bike, rollerblade, scooter, and use the driveway as their canvas for chalk drawings. (Last night’s downpours cleared things off, so they’ll have clean concrete once the temps warm up again.
This introvert is starting to feel the effects of being “forced” to stay at home. It’s one thing to choose to stay home but know that you could go out, see people, run errands, etc. if you wanted to. It’s an entirely different feeling to know you should not do those things and therefore are staying home. I’m not sure it’s something I will get used to.
