Skip to main content

Two pics from the Smile Factory

Miscellaneous fun this week!

GZ had fun sorting our days of the week!  Because this is high up on the mirror, I never thought of it as a manipulative at all.  But he’s been able to “read” them for a long time now (mostly guessing from the first letter), and while he was choosing Monday’s, he put himself to work organizing them for me!

cut up 002

I won’t post every single lesson, but this was our SECOND lesson in Draw Write Now, and it went just as well as the first.  I had the brilliant idea of “test-driving” the new drawing on the whiteboard before committing it to paper.  I also invested in a bunch of nice, sharp pencils despite my primal loathing of pencils.

Both were excellent ideas, and the lesson went well.  That was yesterday; we’ll repeat it tomorrow – this time with “scenery,” fully-coloured, maybe a couple of different sizes of pigs.  Oh, and I will insist she NOT write the name of the pig on its belly… just for realism’s sake.

Here’s the whiteboard version, before we did it on paper.  Yes, she drew this pig herself, following the careful, step-by-step instructions!

 cut up 006

I always thought “how-to-draw” books were hokey… and I always thought that, as an artist, I was just plain hopeless. 

Well, I may still be hopeless, but just watch me draw a hen and a PIG!!!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

I love your comments!

Popular posts from this blog

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page.  As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You, here’s a
27 comments
Read more

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah :  the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science :  Plants, Animals, Human Body Math   Ambleside :  Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature     Science General Poems for Elemental Science .  Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful.  Three pages are included:  one page with two po
10 comments
Read more

Are Jews an "underrepresented community" in children’s publishing?

I applied for a writing award yesterday. I'm not going to get it, but that's not what I wanted to share with you. Here's what I wanted to share. This box:   I stared at this box for a long, long time. And then I decided not to check it. Even though I believe people like me truly are underrepresented, we probably wouldn’t fit the definition in other people's minds. Why? Well, because we're European. Because we are white. Because as everybody knows, Jews control the media. (do we???) If anything, some people say, Jews are over -represented in publishing. And yet. Some definitions are careful not to include people like me. Like this random definition from the State of California which defines underrepresented for some very specific business purposes as: "an individual who self-identifies as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, or Alaska Native, or who self-identi
Post a Comment
Read more