A few recent activities...

Myjobchart.com has been a huge success in our house. Natalee earned her first reward of having a few friends over for a cooking party. These are the girls that were able to come - Katelyn, Shamrina, Nat & Hannah. I fed them dinner of pizza and salad and they all got to take home some of the peanut-butter blossom cookies (with kisses on top) that they made. They were a cute group of girls. all talking about next year's choice of middle schools. Castillero or Allen - which will it be? Of course, they painted nails and watch Hannah Montana, The Movie before they all went home. I taught Art Vistas in Gehrig's 2nd grade class last week. It's a bit trickier with 30 kids this year - you walk away and they start talking. It was about sketching, as opposed to drawing - a hard concept for little ones who just learned how to hold their pencil correctly to begin with. In case you're worried about their grip - I actually taught them to hold their pencil this way (they really had a hard time with that) so they would sketch with small, short, light strokes - no erasing. We practiced with a still life portrait. I was really impressed with their building knowledge of art composition and technique in the three years I've been working with them!

The left sketch is from a very artistic girl in Gehrig's class, Athena. Gehrig's is on the right. I'm not exactly sure what planet he was on while sketching this, but here it is.