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Teach Them About Beauty
Milton dictates to his daughters, by Eugène Delacroix Anthony Esolen recommends a weapon to be used against the pornogogues running the public schools and teaching very little of anything — Beauty: So...
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Me, Too!
Delightful and Enigma felt left out that I was posting so much of Feisty’s art, so they made some pictures, too. These were done last spring. Here is a plant eating dirty socks by Delightful, 7 (Can...
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Attention to Detail
I really like the attention to detail that Feisty, 4, put into this modified stick figure that she drew last spring. She even drew each section of the figure’s fingers. The lines on the arms and legs...
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A Peacock and a Parrot
For her 5th birthday, someone gave Feisty an art set for making pipe cleaners into animals. The set was a little too difficult for Feisty, 5, to manage on her own, but with Delightful, 7’s, help they...
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Fire!
A conversation I had with Feisty last spring: Mommy? Yes, Feisty? I need more red paint. You need more red paint????! How can you be out of red paint already?! Well, I’m using it all up on this part...
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Wikki Stix Art
Last year, we gave Wikki Stix a try. The kids enjoyed making art with them but wanted to cut all of the pieces up. I was reluctant to let them do so because then they couldn’t be made long again. In...
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Feisty Funnies
Funny pictures made by Feisty when she was 4: Some ants. Marching.: A creature with fangs: And Chef Pig:
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A Table of Birds
The girls (ages 5 and 7) had some friends over to play and they all decided to play with Play-Doh. When they were done, I discovered that their table was covered with mostly birds: There’s no telling...
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A Horse and Carriage
Feisty blew me away when she drew this picture of a horse and carriage last spring at the age of 4:
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What a Hog!
A spontaneous description (oral narration) of a picture of a hog as seen by Feisty, 5: It has four legs, one big long tail, a big fat body, big poky eyes, hearing ears, a snotty nose, and a big oinking...
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Geppetto Gets Wood from Master Cherry
This year, Delightful, 7, has been studying Pinocchio. Here is a picture of her creative narration of a scene from Chapter 2 where Geppetto asks Master Cherry for some wood and gets some trouble to boot:
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Pig Oink-session
A family friend gave Feisty a pig pen just before she turned 5. Here is her pen and her drawing of her pen…and a pig:
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Turtle Power
Here is an idea for making turtles that we got from What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know. Basically, you stand on a chair and drop a ball of dough (or similar material) on the ground so that one side...
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Pizza Shop
I was blown away by this pizza shop that Enigma, 3, designed for himself one day. He even had someone behind the counter to take the orders and make the pizzas! Not bad for a three-year-old, huh?
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Honey Scrolls
Last year, while we were still using The Mystery of History (first edition of Volume 1), Delightful chose to do an assignment where she had to make and eat scrolls made of bread and honey. Here is...
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How Can We Expect To Advance If We Keep Starting Over?
Aaron Jagt: “Recital, the act of copying or repeating, is the most basic and fundamental process of learning. Most of the study of mathematics is simply the repeating of processes of increasing...
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Feisty Funnies
Funny pictures made by Feisty when she was 4: Some ants. Marching.: A creature with fangs: And Chef Pig:
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