School in the New Year

This year we are going to be participating in some new activities. You may have noticed some new things on my sidebar. We are doing an Artist Study, currently of Jackson Pollock. We will have a new painting each month and spend a little time discussing biographical information, but the main goal is for the kids to be able to recognize the artist's work, which is why each painting will be featured for a two week period. We have always been doing poetry, but I've decided to include it on the blog. The kids spend the week writing the poem in their english journals, and then draw a picture to go with them when they are done. At the end of each week I'll post their illustrations.

We are also going to participate in some weekly activities hosted by other blogs. We are doing Sketch Tuesday from Harmony Art Mom-- basically a drawing assignment that I wasn't sure how my kids would react to, but they loved the first one so we will continue.

We will also be doing Winter Wednesdays and Outdoor Hour Challange from Handbook of Nature Study. Any encouragement to spend time in the great outdoors is welcome to us all.

I'm toying with the idea of doing the A B See Photo Meme/Foto Fridays, but haven't decided for sure yet. This is a year long photo assignment of finding pictures for each letter of the alphabet and posting them on Fridays. Wait--yes I have, I've decided, I'm doing it, and I've told you all so now I have to.