One of the things I learned during the first week of remote learning with my 1st grader, was that he works well with visual examples for math. We tried a couple different ideas, but then he was telling me about the way the teacher does math learning in the classroom, and she utilizes the white board a lot. I can see how that would be helpful, so I decided to make a little chalkboard area here at home.
This week was our Spring Break, so there's a little more free time for random projects, which worked out nicely. Next, to figure out where to put the chalkboard and see if I still had any old paint lying around. Handily, as a habitual craft-hoarder, I did have all the supplies necessary here already. I was a little worried that the paint would be to old and may be goopy, but it was good! Two coats later, we had a chalkboard.
After a 3-day wait for the paint to fully set, they had a good time breaking it in.
Also, as we're doing all this home learning, we've been doing a fair number of artsy activities. Moon is really a big fan of these and Townshend will come join us when the mood strikes. Most recently, we made these cute little jellyfish.
Moon and I each made two, and he was so excited only one of his ended up on the wall.. the other swims around the house and alternates between stinging and tickling people. Townshend wasn't into making a jellyfish, but he painted one and it turned out really well!
All this art making has lead to an art gallery growing on a wall leading to our stairwell.
It's a little different decoration than we'd had previously, but I'm digging it.
1 comment:
Lot of fun, lots of expression. Good times! I liked both jellyfish.
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