Fourth Grade, Fine Arts, Set Three

Recorder

• Practiced previous songs
• Learned fingering for notes E and D
• Started learning Old Brass Wagon

Bracelet

• Chevron bracelet

Badges

• Native American badge

Fourth Grade, Fine Arts, Set Two

Recorder

• Practiced Hot Cross Buns and Good News!

Bracelet

• Made a Basic Diagonal Stripe bracelet 

Textile Arts Badge

• Made a color wheel with paints
• Made a wall hanging

Cake Decorating Badge

• Spring themed cake

Fourth Grade, Fine Arts, Set One

Recorder

• Learned fingering for notes G, A, and B
• Learned "Hot Cross Buns" with the harmony (pg 3)
• Started practicing "Good News" (pg 4)

Bracelet

• Practiced the right and left hand basic knot
• K. made a Double Chain Knot bracelet

Cake Decorating Badge

• K. made cupcakes and decorated them for her birthday party
• K. made a rainbow cake by coloring white frosting red, yellow, and blue, then she made orange, green, and purple frosting by mixing the primary colors.
• We talked about complementary colors on the color wheel.

Third Grade, Fine Arts, Set Seven

We continued making birthday and anniversary cards for our family.

Third Grade, Fine Arts, Set Six

Here are a couple birthday cards we made.

We are also continuing to creep forward in piano.

Third Grade, Fine Arts, Set Five

We continued making birthday and anniversary cards. We did some with stenciling and some with paper pricking.

K. asked to do piano again, so we did a few pages.

We painted a plaque with a fortress and wrote our favorite verse from Psalm 91 on it.

Third Grade, Fine Arts, Set Four

Fairy Tales:

• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Germany retold from the Brothers Grimm by Virginia Haviland
• The Cat and Mouse in Partnership
• Hansel and Gretel
• Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale retold by Carmen Agra Deedy
• The Bossy Gallito retold by Lucia M. Gonzalez
• Rabbit Wishes by Linda Shute -- why rabbits have long ears

Birthday and Anniversary Cards:
We mixed equal amounts of water, dish soap, and paint in a glass, then used a straw to blow bubbles. Touching the paper to the bubbles made neat designs on the cards. After they dried, we could add decorations. Here are a couple we made.

Third Grade, Fine Arts, Set Three

We made birthday and anniversary cards. I had purchased Ed Emberley's Picture Pie: A Cut and Paste Drawing Book. Making the cards this way was time consuming, but fun.

Third Grade, Fine Arts, Set Two

Fairy Tales from other countries:

• The Wooden Sword by Ann Redisch Stampler -- a Jewish folktale from Afghanistan
• What's So Funny, Ketu? by Verna Aardema -- a folktale from Africa
• Wisdom Stories by Mary Joslin -- stories from various countries that show the strength and frailty of human nature and consequences of foolish choices.

We started working on drawing a picture of whales. This is a drawing project in a Nature Friend. We didn't finish, so we will continue working on it in Set Three.

We made the birthday and anniversary cards. I picked up Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book at the library. It is great fun, very creative, and allowed both K. and I to make very cute cards!

Third Grade, Fine Arts, Set One

• We went to see The Nutcracker in December.
• We made cards for the February and March birthdays (slow months with only three birthdays each!).
• We made valentines.
• We have done five pages in piano books.
• I read various fairy tales to K.
• Beauty and the Beast Retold by Philippa Pearce (we are going to see the ballet in April)
• William Tell by Leonard Everett Fisher
• The Magpie's Nest by Retold by Joanna Foster
• Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France Retold by Virginia Haviland (we just started this one)
• We are also baking. We've made:
• Cookies
• Cranberry bread
• Pumpkin bread
• We made a Wire Button Tree.