May's Shenanigans .......

May has been super busy despite being on school lite.... We've done two artist studies based loosely on studies from Confessions of a Homeschooler. First we learned about Impressionism with Monet. Then we moved on to " Action Painting" with Jackson Pollock. With the Pollock study the kids really got into seeing what different splatter patterns by various size brushes, things found in the yard, and even just paint straight from bottles....

Action Painting was by far their favorite. We had to scale down in size..lol

Yang really got into it....... We shall have a really colorful driveway for a

Hulk really got into blobs and Ying liked to sling with different types of grasses from the yard.

The kids also wrapped up another session of Kilometer Kids. They each earned an Atlanta 1/2 Marathon medal for achieving the 13.1 mile training mark this session. They were really proud of the medals that were huge..lol... The girls also completed their 2nd 5K race in just about 40 min. Hulk ran in the 1 mile fun run and finished in 11:15. 

Most of the kids and coaches at our training 5K.....

The girls also helped build the sets for their spring musical called Back to BC.  We built the "Garden of Eden" and Noah's boat... The girls had very small roles in the musical but I think it was really good for them to learn you don't always get to be "the main event" and still have to do your best.....

Theses flowers were a great recycled art project we found on Pintrest. We simply cut and painted the tops of water bottles to make great color flowers to add to our Garden of Eden....