This past weekend, our family took a Christmas train ride at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum. An old-fashioned steam engine pulled four antique passenger cars for an hour’s drive through the countryside. The cars were decked out with lights and streamers, the conductor punched letters into our tickets Polar Express style, and merry music played in [...]
I’m finally taking some time to update my blog theme. I haven’t done it for over a year for good reason – it takes work! And time for blog makeovers isn’t tops on my to-do list right now. But I took the plunge and put up a new template. Yep, it’s very plain right now [...]
Melissa and I have just released the newest NaturExplorers unit – Snow and Ice!
We’re hosting a giveaway at Shining Dawn Books. Be sure to sign up by Sunday night for your chance to win!
My little guy will be three on December 23rd. Time flies!
Because of the busyness of Christmas and my nephew’s birthday soon after Christmas, we always celebrate Eli’s birthday just a tad early. Three year olds have FUN partying!
Our church celebrates Jesus’ birth a tad early, too. Last night was the annual Christmas pageant. My sweet [...]
My 87-year-old Granny isn’t well. She lives in Alabama with my aunt and uncle who are doing a wonderful job caring for her. We were so blessed to be able to visit, along with most of the rest of my extended family, for a Thanksgiving reunion.
We took the opportunity on the way home to take [...]
Gauguin was an interesting character! I can’t claim that he’s my favorite artist, but we still enjoyed our time spent with him this month.
Self-Portraits
Below are the resources that have been in the sidebar. We won’t be doing artist or composer study in December. I’ll have resources in the sidebar again in January!
Paul Gauguin
Olga’s Gallery
Cattle Drinking
Landscape
Black [...]
We enjoyed Duke Ellington a lot! It was refreshing to hear a different style of music than we’ve been listening to so far this semester. We aren’t studying a composer in December. I’ll have resources in the sidebar again in January!
Duke Ellington
Making Music Fun – Biography and You Tube Performances
PBS Kids Biography
Books We’ll Read
CD’s We’ll [...]
A comprehensive (yet short and sweet) grammar and language arts curriculum for 3rd-4th graders based on 15 "living" fiction and nonfiction picture books.