We are almost done with our school year and I can hardly wait to have a break. Would you believe that I am already trying to get ready for the upcoming school year?!?! I guess I am just tired of teaching, but excited to start planning.The My Father's World 1st grade curriculum that we use comes with two really great art books, Exploring Landscape Art with Children
and Enjoying Art with Children. They are both part of the Come Look With Me series. The books showcase the work of many famous artists. There is an explanation of the artwork as well as some historical and biographical information on the background of the artist. There are also suggested questions to help open the discussion for each piece of artwork.Although we didn't use the books as much as I had hoped this past year with my daughter, I hope to implement some of them this upcoming school year. I was particularly interested to see the Discovering African American Art for Children.
Here are some of the other books in the series:
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I recently found your blog (I think through Totally Tots), and was just wondering if you could give me some feedback on MFW 1st grade? We did the Kinder last year and are planning to do 1st this year, even though my daughter just turned 5 this spring.
ReplyDeleteI was just wondering if you went with the curriculum exactly, if you found yourself implementing other things on your own, if you found their "extra books" to be useful/helpful, etc.
We're planning to use Math U See for our math this year.
Thanks so much for your feedback if you have time!
Cheryl
carrellfam (at) gmail (dot) com
You should check out Usborne's Art Sticker Book [http://www.amazon.com/Usborne-Art-Sticker-Book/dp/0794524893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277323110&sr=8-1] as a supplement :)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to doing this! It looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteYou are so good with art and crafty things!!
ReplyDeleteThat shall be a goal for next year to get messy!
My Dad says the kids need to come to the farm for "dirt camp" just so they can get dirty. :)
I love planning too!! I planned in April!! I will have baby #4 in July Lord willing and thought it might be too much to plan and be so close to having a newborn. Anyway, Happy Planning So glad you are almost done with school! YEAH!!!!
We used MFW this year too and loved it! I was surprised at how interested my son became in the art books. His favorite was by far the landscapes. I think the portraits were a bit over his head. I'm glad to have them, though, and plan to use them next year also.
ReplyDeleteI totally relate to having more enthusiasm for the planning than the execution. I do love teaching my kids, but I'm a planner for sure.
ReplyDeleteWe used MFW this year too and loved it! I was surprised at how interested my son became in the art books. His favorite was by far the landscapes. I think the portraits were a bit over his head. I'm glad to have them, though, and plan to use them next year also.
ReplyDeleteI totally relate to having more enthusiasm for the planning than the execution. I do love teaching my kids, but I'm a planner for sure.
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