I've been so excited for this week! It's good to have things to look forward to in isolation :) I've curated some fun, simple activities around rainbows, and I'm excited to share our progress. Day 16 - Color StudyWe've been enjoying Color Study by Green Urban Creative. This week's simple lesson on rainbows encouraged us to review the colors of the rainbow as well as review last week's lesson on Color Theory. To help us review Sir Isaac Newton's discovery, we used our own prisms and went on a rainbow walk outside. It was so much fun! We used these prisms from Amazon to go around looking at the world. It's so simple, but there's so much to be discovered here.
Day 17 - Girl Study We started our time together with some wobble board yoga. We love our wobble board! It is so multifaceted and gross motor activity that takes up very little space. We have the Kinderfeets Wobble Board, but this one by Little Dove is very similar. We like our other Little Dove products. We use these free wobble board yoga cards. Penny (and me!) randomly picks 5 cards, and she spends 1 minute in each pose. It's a great 5 minute brain break! After our yoga, we read Billie Holiday in Herstory, which lead to a great conversation on poverty. To finish our lesson, we used some abstract coloring pages by Free Pancakes, which is a supplemental curriculum website. We listened to Billie Holiday's music and colored in an image. We talked about how the music affected us and our color choices. Penny noted that her music is sad so she made a large X through the page. At first I thought this lesson was lacking a little, but then I realized that it was a very powerful yet age appropriate exposure to art in an interdisciplinary way, culture, music, and women's and Black history. Next month, we will listen to another singer and color in our pages. It should provide a great comparison conversation between Billie Holiday and our next singer. Day 18 - Poetry StudyWe jumped out of order in our Love at Home Education's poetry study so we could do Imagine a World by Moira Andrews. Penny colored as I read the poem a few times. She noted how different words were sticking out to her each time. After completing the workbook pages (drawing and writing her own quintain poem again), we did a super fun fiber art project by Wolf Dew. We were so lucky to get one of her DIY rainbows before they sold out, but I will definitely be watching for another one! It was so much fun. Penny noted how much she needed to work with her hands. She is so proud to have it hanging in her room! Stay tuned for the final half of our rainbow week!
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