Show & Tell {Kennady's music lessons}

For Show & Tell this week, I want to share how Kennady has been spending a lot of her spare time lately - practicing her recorder.  I have to admit that the family gets pretty tired of hearing it, but from what I can tell, that's fairly common among family members of recorder players!!  She has been learning to play in a co-op class and is really enjoying it so she practices at home (which not all of her classmates do, apparently) and last week she got out the whiteboard and practiced writing out her music as well.

 

 

Okay, now she's embarrassed because I'm taking her picture:

Okay, time to go - we need to practice for the Talent Night this evening - she is singing!

 

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Show & Tell {Art Glass field trip}

It's time for Show & Tell, and as usual I am late in getting mine ready.  I posted a little preview earlier today though.

On Monday, I took Landon and Kennady on a field trip.  We visited an art glass studio in Baltimore and were able to see how the glass pieces are made, and the kids each got to make a marble using the technique!  As our group arrived, we looked around at the interesting glasswork in the workshop area.



Calla lilies!



I thought this looked a little like Spanish onions!  Its MUCH larger, and is hanging from the ceiling, almost like a chandelier.



Here's where its all made:



As we were getting settled, our tour guide - the owner and artist, Tim - quickly fashioned a horse out of glass. 







Then it was our turn.  One at a time, the kids chose which colored glass bits they would use for their own marble.  This is Kennady getting a quick lesson on how to hold the rod and keep turning it so that the hot glass doesn't droop.



Tim got the hot glass on the end of the rod, and then Kennady pressed it into the little pile of lavender glass she had chosen.



Next, over to the furnace where the glass is heated again, always turning the rod.



Back to the stainless steel table again, this time to shape the molten glass by turning and pressing it onto the table.



And to the furnace again...



Finally, Kennady can sit down (still turning the rod though!) and Tim helps her to pinch in the end of the glass so that the rounded marble will come off the rod.  (I took a little video of that, which I will add here later if I can)



Landon's turn:







Here is Kennady's finished marble:



All the kids in our group proving that they still have their marbles!



Afterwards we looked around the shop and gallery - beautiful and unique work!!





He's got everything you could imagine in there, including the kitchen sink! (Actually, this is the bathroom sink - we couldn't resist taking a picture, despite the fact that our reflections are in the mirror! Ooops LOL)



Thanks for coming by - more show and tell fun can be found by visiting Mary aka CanadaGirl

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Show & Tell {Co-op Class News}

A couple weeks ago I shared some pictures from the kids co-op class.  Well, now we've passed the halfway point and here are some more co-op pictures.  First the gross stuff...  I went into Spencer's biology lab two weeks ago to get a look at a cow brain.  I'm still rather surprised at how little it bothered me.  LOL 

 

They've now examined the tongue, heart, brain, and lungs.  Interesting.

 

The younger kids are enjoying their classes as well, particularly Music and Art.  One of the local library branches puts up artwork in a "gallery" to showcase different area schools, and most recently our homeschool group was featured.  We sent a perspective drawing Spencer did in his co-op art class:

 

Kennady also had a piece from her Art class submitted, a story quilt drawing inspired by the work of Faith Ringgold:

 

 

Kennady was with me when I went to visit the "gallery" so I tried to get her picture.  Not easy since her work was at the very top of the bulletin board, and I'm not crazy about how it turned out, but I haven't got a copy of Gramma's picture yet. (hers turned out much better, I think!)

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Show & Tell/A B See Photo Meme {G}

 

G is for Greenhouse

 

This is what it looks like right now at the greenhouse where my DH works.  Pansies, violas, and petunias.  I love the colors.

My mom took a family picture of us as well.

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Show and Tell {Vermillion}

Time again for Show & Tell!  A couple weeks ago, when we started our Lewis & Clark unit in History, we followed my book's instructions for making "vermillion" paint, which the Corps of Discovery took with them to trade to the Native Americans they met.



Then it was off to a mirror so Landon and Kennady could paint up!













 Here is Landon trying to look mean, like he's headed out on the warpath.  And Kennady tried to look mean too, but couldn't wipe the smile off her face.



At first we were a little disappointed that the paint looked more PINK than RED, but when the time came to wash it off, I was glad!  I had a few anxious moments where I thought I might have to take them to gym class looking like they had sunburn! Thankfully it really was washable, like the instructions said, but I'd recommend not leaving the paint on for TOO long! LOL

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Show & Tell/A B See Photo Meme {E}

 

E is for Eeeeek!!!

Had to be creative with this letter, but that is pretty much what I said when our TV antenna blew off our roof on Monday!  Here it is sitting in our yard.  I'm trying to think of a good homeschool project we can do with a TV antenna - suggestions?

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Show & Tell {Spencer's Drawing}

Just one picture this week for my Show & Tell.  Last week I featured our co-op class and showed Spencer starting on a perspective drawing.  The students were to finish their drawings of the road heading off into the horizon this week, and add their own personal touches.  Here is what Spencer came up with:

He's not quite finished, I think he is going to adjust the shadows so they match.  Note the worker on thepower pole.

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Show & Tell {Co-op Class 09}

Once again, I'm late in getting my Show & Tell posted.  For some reason it has seemed much slower than usual getting my pictures loaded onto photobucket so I can share them, and I don't know if it's my computer or the website, or who knows what.  Anyway,  since I wasn't well enough to teach this week, I got to just hang around during co-op, so I tried to get a few pictures.

 

Landon and Kennady are both enjoying an art class this year.  They study the style of a famous or influential artist and then do their own version of that type of artwork.  Landon's project this week:

And here's Kennady's:

They also each have a Science class and a Music class.  They are learning to play recorder.  I feel bad that I haven't really given Kennady proper piano lessons, because she really has a good ear.  She almost didn't need the class to learn recorder,as she has been teaching herself at home!

 

Spencer is taking two classes - one is an art class that is a basic intro to perspective drawing, or drafting.  I think he is really enjoying that one.  I sat in on that class for awhile so I took some pictures.

Demonstration:

Students hard at work:

 

 

 

This is Spencer's work in progress:

Spencer's other class is a biology lab, dissecting all kinds of body parts.  I think last week they did a cow eyeball.  Ick.  This week they examined a cow's tongue, and I gathered my courage to step in for a picture.  It wasn't nearly as disgusting as I'd feared.

 

Blech.

 

And finally, on our way out the door after class yesterday, Kennady noticed an insect on the wall.  It's still pretty early in the season for insects to be out, but I gues the recent warm temperatures brought this guy out into the open.  Normally Kennady wouldn't be at all interested, and I sure wouldn't be taking a picture, but her Science class happens to be focusing on insects, so this was a fabulous specimen.  I tried getting some good close-up pictures, and then fortunately found a ziploc baggie, so we saved this critter for the kids to take a better look at next week in co-op.  (the boys that were close by assured us that it was an assassin bug, but I don't know and am not interested enough to look it up!)

 

And now, at last, I can go to bed with a clear conscience because I got my Show & Tell posted before midnight local time.  but just barely.  Right now its 11:53pm.  For more Show & Tells, visit Mary aka CanadaGirl