weekly wrap up 3/1/19-Tolkien, The Hobbit, and O'keefe

We are falling a bit behind with our schooling due to some family things that have come up.  Things are going to be a bit crazy for the next month or two so my posts may be a bit sporadic until things settle down.

For Literature MarioFan is working on reading The Hobbit and learning about JR Tolkien.

Just a few of the books we are looking over.

MarioFan is also going to be writing a paper on Tolkien and his process for creating the hobbit.

For history we are entering into the Renaissance period and the years of exploration.  I am currently gathering up my materials for additional reading while we continue to work on Crash Course World History (unit 4).

For art we have been learning about Georgia O'Keefe, who I must admit is one of my top ten favorite artists and we have visited her art museum on Santa Fe, New Mexico several times.

Some of the books we looked at as well as the boys watched a few clips of Georgia O’Keefe on you tube talking about her art 

Over the years I have bought several prints from the O’Keefe museum and the boys examined them closely as we talked about the artist.  Much nicer to see art in larger sizes than the thumb size art in books.

For the boys art projects we tried to recreate a few of her works but adding our own touches to it.  For the first project we talked about the skulls and bones O'keefe found in the desert of New Mexico and how she incorporated them into her art.

This is art piece by Georgia O’Keefe is called Cow's skull

My example piece

The boys choose the colors of the background of their project

We found some simple skull drawings online and made outline of the skull 

Next I encourage the boys to add shading and dimension to the skull and then they cut them out to add to their finished back ground

Their finished works

Next week we are going to attempt to recreate a different style of O'Keefe, close up of flowers:). I will post about them soon

We had a huge wind storm this past week and it seemed every leaf in the neighborhood blew into our yard.  So the kids had to help me rack them all up.  

You couldn't even see the side walk to the front door or any of the  bushes in the front yard.

Took over 12 leaf bags to clean up that mess.

That is our week in a nutshell:)