Summer Fun

The first day of vacation was like summer! It was also the only nice day, and we were lucky enough to spend it with Evie!

Impressionist Paintings

The best $10 I have spent, in quite some time, was on an Impressionist Sticker Book at the Currier. Emily and I spent the afternoon filling in the sticker book with all the stickers. After we were done Emily wanted to do some of the painting in the book. This was great fun because the Impressionists are  my favorite painters, particularly Monet, and I had a large painting in the attic which thrilled Emily to no end. Below you will find some of her work. What I could not convince her to do, was paint the paintings on big paper. Just because the stickers were small doesn't mean the actual paining were small....oh well...we had a great time!

 Houses of Parliament by Monet

 The Poplars by Monet

 The Water-Lily Pond by Monet

The Currier Museum

On Monday Emily and I met Pranay and his mom at The Currier Museum. There was a story/art project time which is right up Emily's alley. The museum is a little gem! It is just the right size to walk the entire museum without anyone (including me) getting bored or tired. Emily had her camera and we had a great time looking at the art and taking a lot of photos as well!

 Picasso

 this is what Emily spent her time doing...taking photos

 Monet, my favorite

 Emily's favorite painting

Emily and Pranay working on the project

Planetarium

Last week we went to the Christa Mcauliffe Planetarium. I have not been there since I was teaching in Concord and I have to admit I was no more impressed with it now than I was then. It is OK and Emily liked it but the show is a little outdated and I feel like there should be more "stuff". But as I said, Emily loved it (because she is still obsessed with anything having to do with the planets) and we got to see Cam there as well.

So Proud

Emily is so proud of all of her work. Several people came to her art show including Kendall, Avery, Daddy, Grammy, Evie, Cobe, and Kellie!

She loved showing Evie around her school.

Art Show

One of the first projects, a mirror made of clay, then fired and painted

lily pad made of clay

one of my favorites, photography. Each child took a photo of the same spot on the playground during 3 seasons.

printing

"found art"

The Puppet

One of the most intricate projects is Emily's puppet. It was a several week project and Emily loves the way hers came out. Each child made a puppet and a few weeks ago they were put in groups of 4 or 5 and had to work together to perform a puppet show in front of the class.