Day 16 Ancient Egyptian Art

Well in future I have plans to be able to get some school work done in the morning before art class starts, not sure if this will be a reality or not. 

Instead of school work from 9-10 we made waffles, Nathan made blueberry sauce.  And then we did the 10 minute tidy before our art teacher Jessica arrived at 10 am.

Jessica taught art from 10-12.  I was in the other room, doing some lesson planning and scheduling, but I could over hear some and it was wonderful.  She had brought some books on ancient egypt and she read to them a little as they were working on their art.  It was wonderful as it definately made their art more meaningful. 

They did an art project that was drawing a picture of themselves, interpreted as an ancient egyptian.  Once they completed their drawings how they liked they then used carbon paper to transfer the drawing to watercolour paper.  They then used watercolours to colour their drawings.  We decided that these would be great to put in our timeline books for the history of the world.  They also learned the ancient egyptian alphabet, and Genevieve loved this.


After Art we spent some time starting our next lesson on moving beyond the page, Nathan and genevieve read most of  the reading and then completed one worksheet. 

We went to horse lessons after, Nathan has not been having a good time at horse lately because his hips have been really bothering him when he rides.  He was really sore when he woke up the next morning, and asked me to bring ginger down off his bed because his hip hurt too much to carry ginger down the stairs.  At this point I am unsure what to do about horse, I think it might be something that we have to give up, we will talk to  janet again and see if she has any other suggestions.

After horse riding we went over to mark strahl's office and we put stamps on envelops while watching part of the monk debate.  We have been helping Mark with his election campaign a few times, we assembled lawn signs a few weeks ago.  We also went to a concervative campaign rally in abbotsford, where nathan got to shake hands with the prime minister of canada.  This campaign has been a wonderful way to get the kids involved in politics because they feel like they have a little vested interest in the campaign.  They would like Mark to keep his job, so we can still go on holidays with them in the summer, and one of their favorite dads can tow them around on a tube.  They have enjoyed their volunteer experience so far.  

Before bed, I read the last 5 pages of the kids assigned reading for the day to them.

Genevieve instead of bedtime reading she decorated her art folder with ancient egyptian writing, she worked hard  on it and quickly memorized all of the symbols for the alphabet, she then came into the room, and wanted me to quiz her.