Afternoon Walks

Learning about the world around us... and appreciating the gifts God has blessed us :)

 

We’re loving autumn!

Green Series

We finally moved on the Green Series!  We started with sh, ch, and th... my son did well with these sets.

I kept them on an envelope.

And we moved with a_e and i_e combination.  This is something new to him, so he’s a little challenged at the moment.

We'll still revisit the Blue Series for spelling lessons.

For my materials, I got it from a very generous source, The Helpful Garden. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Organic Shapes

After learning all about lines, we moved to learning about organic shapes!

I came across an artwork (sorry forgot the link), and was inspired with the artworks they did, and this is where I got the idea.  So I don’t take credit for this idea and creativity :) Promise to post the link if I encounter it again.

First we tear up free form shapes from a piece of paper.  We use our hands to tear the papers, I realize that it’s difficult and tiring, especially for him.   Then painted them as we like. 

I added borders on my organic shapes.  And added a few more details for the border.   My son wants to glue his organic shapes on a piece of black paper.  He wants to add details by writing letters (Oh he’s still obsessed with them!).

And here’s my work :)  Since I got black borders, I glued mine on a piece of white paper.

The end products looks awesome! 

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Noah’s Ark

Discovered this wonderful book at the library!  This book contains Bible’s Old Testament stories and is accompanied by kids illustrations per story.

For this week, we had Noah’s Ark.  It’s so inspiring to see kids interpretation of the story.

So I tried it with my little boy. Here he is drawing the “big ship” of Noah.

He added animals (see the ones on the sides), added skies, birds. 

He painted two images on top of the ark... “that’s Noah and his friend”.

We will be doing this weekly, and would most probably incorporate Bible verses and my best resource would be Carisa’s blog of Raising Rock Star. 

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