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Entry into Orange Show in Houston Texas

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Megan worked all this past week on a project to enter into the Orange Show in Houston. The main point didn't have to be peeps, but they had to be part of the focus. So, Megan had two characters from "Secrets of Droom, book 26, the Moon Dragon" fighting the dragon on top of a school house.  The two main characters were peep rabbits. For Sparr , she painted the ear's purple to represent his fins on his head.  For Eric, the normal kid character in the book, she cut off the ears completely as he doesn't fins. She build the dragon out of Sculpty and decorated an empty wood box and a house red with brown strips. On the tip of the house, was a clock, to give the image of a school house.  The normal people in the town were peep chickens. 

Peeping the Environment Clean

Next year, Megan wants to do a canoeing /fishing/ cleaning up combo scene.  Her idea is the have a cardboard box that looks like a normal diorama , but in the front where you would look there would a blue plastic piece plexiglass.  Then, in water would be trash along with fish and other freshwater creatures.  The peeps would be both fishing and picking up trash. Only one peep would be fishing, representing a mischievious one. The other two or three would have nets and trash bags and picking up trash. She wants three canoes.  Odd number of peeps. The fishing peep has his/her own canoe. 

Abstract Art, lines and line families

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Megan says Abstract art is art that you can not make anything out . That  is to say, there is nothing apparent in it that the artist is trying to portrait.  There are two line families, the curved and the straight. That is,  a zig zag, a straight  line, etc would be in the straight line family, and your curves like swirls and rounded lines would be in the curves.

Megan's art class.

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Megan went to Music and More's art class this passed Tuesday. Megan drew a dinosaur on watercolor paper using oil pastels and then she did a watercolor wash on top of it.  She did a good job on the dinosaur.

Lots of dinosaurs and bird drawings

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Megan has been spending a lot of time drawing.dinosaurs and birds.   I will take pictures soon and post them .

Science Art

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We did a meetup yesterday that incorporated terms like diffusion, emulsion, and  absorption. Megan did most of them.  However, she spent a lot of her time on the diffusion one.  This one you wet your paper and then you add watered down tempura paint to the pictures.  In time, the paint should move across the wet paper.  That night, we did two more. One where you                                                                     

Textured Walk for a caterpillar art project

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This is Megan's textured art we acquired walking around Randolph Carter.  Mine is shown below.
IMG_4590.JPGWe are trying out activities in the Home Art for Kindergarden (I bought the first grade one as well).
After this, we have to cut out a leaf from this and then make a caterpillar out of white sculptey material that you can cook in the oven.  Mine is below.
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Post office meetup

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Today the meetup is starting its community worker series.  We started with the post office.   Well,  we started off discussing what a community is and what takes place in it.  We discussed stores, libraries, fire stations,  police stations, etc.we discussed what you can buy in a store.  

Then Leslie read three books about what goes on behind-the-scenes in a post office.   Then she read about mail carriers in general and how they have to deliver the mail in all sorts of weather.  This was to show self-discipline, perseverance, and sense of duty (civil duty).  


Then we handed out Popsicle sticks with different workers on them.  A description of the community worker was read and when each kid's community worker  was called, they had to raise their stick.  



Then after this, I discussed the format of a letter and they had choices.  The first was to write a letter.  The second was that they could cut and paste the parts of a letter that was given to them in the right order in the given squares for the various parts.  Another activity that they could do was making an envelope from scratch.  




Megan chose to write a letter.  It was soooooo impressive.  She set it up right, drew dotted lines on the sheets of paper,   Made and labeled her own envelope and is going to mail it out.   She wrote a letter to Lillian.  Apparently Amanda helped her spell appreciate, as she told her that appreciates Lillian coming over.  

Then she did a little post office math.  She counted by 5's to solve a math problem  related to what kind of letter a kid could send with some nickels and a penny.  

She was asked what the boy could buy and she told Leslie, since it was 0.46 cents, the boy could mail  a postcard  or a letter.  Then I had Megan tell me the difference in price.  That is,if he mails a post card, how much money would 
he have over.  She did this on paper, and then we did it with money itself.   






Rain Stick

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Megan had to make a percussion instrument for Music class and she had a rainstick craft she needed to do. So, she did this today and decorated it with stickers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Thinker Doodles

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Megan had to look at four complete  rockets on top and compare them to the unfinished rockets below and match them.  Then , she had to color the one pointing right three colors . She had to circle one as well.  

Supplies needed week five

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Queen's headdress
Thin white poster board or cardboard, 12 * 24 inches 
Blue acrylic or tempura paint 
3 sheets of gold colored foil from a craft store, 8.5 * 11 each
Glue 
Stapler
Tape 

Math Sumerian style 
Tray, large box lid, or a large piece of paper for a counting board
20 toothpicks, each toothpick stands for one
10 large paper clips.  Each paper clips stand for 10 toothpicks
10 thick rubber bands , each rubber band stands for 6 paper lips or 60 tooth picks

Sebetu Rols
See book
Garlic cloves, scallions

History library books
Ancient Mesopotamia, Let's See Library Ancient Civilizations by Robert Noyed
Sumerians by Jane Shuter
Mesopotamia (Find out About Series) by Lorna Oakes
The City of Rainbows: A Tale from Ancient Sumer by Karen Sharp Foster

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