We took advantage of a break in the rain clouds this weekend and went on a Nature Hike. Lots of critters greeted us along the way.
Our Homeschool Playgroup went on a field trip to the 4H Butterfly Gardens just after Easter. The presentation itself was a little below the group… there wasn’t a question the lady asked that at least half the group couldn’t answer. But everyone had a good time and enjoyed the warm sunny day in the butterfly house and in the children’s garden after. Unfortunately due to unseasonably cold weather in the south this year, there were not very many chrysalis available to the garden so there were not swarms of butterflies like we have seen in the past.
This year the kids decorated Eggs with Gammy and Othy and I don’t have any pictures… maybe Gammy does. I will have to ask. We did an easter egg hunt at church… unfortunately I forgot my camera and only have a couple poor quality cell phone images and then silly me I never got pictures of the kids in their Easter outfits. LOL… I really dropped the ball on this one. BUT I did get the basket photos!
Another project we completed while studing Ancient Rome was making relief sculptures. We looked at relief images found on Rome Arches. Afterwards the kids made their own relief images. Using modeling clay, the kids made animal reliefs by rolling out a flat piece of clay, scratching an image into the clay and then pushing the background down to make the image pop. Fairy’s made a mouse, Bug a dragon and Pixie had me help her make a bear. The kids want to paint their reliefs… we just have not had a chance to do that yet.
Bug decided that he really wanted to make a Roman Gladiator Shield. I cut out cardboard rectangles for the kids. They then looked at images of roman shields and painted their shields. After the shields dried, we taped handle straps to the back of of the shields. Bug’s turned out awesome.
