Roving Fever

Well, there is still sickness in the house.  It seems to randomly be picking its victims.  Here's the rundown on who had fevers on what day:
Saturday & Sunday:  David and Ana
Monday:  Abby for the entired day.  David and Ana joined her by 7:30 that night.
Tuesday:  Ana & David
Wednesday:  Abby & Ana

I'm hoping we kick this thing soon!  It's sad to have little ones who don't feel so hot. 

We did take Monday and Tuesday off from school.  Today was a low key history day.  We read about Alexander the Great for awhile.  Then switched gears to see what was going on over in the Americas around that time period.  We read about the Nazcas and Olmecs.  Then we did a few art projects. 
We first tried making our own Nazca earth drawings.  Here's an aerial view of one.  It's really amazing to think of someone doing this and making them without ever being able to see them. 

Since we don't have access to acres of land to make a real one and we were also short of a few years worth of time, we did it on paper using a white crayon on white paper (to show how we wouldn't be able to see what we were doing while we were doing it).  Then we painted a watercolor wash over top to see how our pictures looked.  The kids had fun doing that.

Then we moved on to clay and tried to make an Olmec head.

They had fun messing around with the clay and ended up making other things as well as a head.  So it was a low key school day, but still fun for everyone - even those who aren't feeling at 100% today. 

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  1. cldFebruary 23, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    Where are the pictures of the drawings and clay items the children made? At first I thought perhaps the two pictures you had were things that they had made...HA! But further inspection showed me (and a bit of closer reading and deduction on my part) that these were examples of what you were teaching !!!!!!

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