The Scream (photo to follow)
We did "halloween crafts" at Nelly’s house today and I took a suggestion from this site to do "skulls" which both me and Aprilia had a go at and Nelly and Bart did their own take on. Then, Aprilia being just that little bit on the perfectionist side, she decided that her skull wasn’t good enough so went a bit mad and chalked the whole thing over creating something very like the face in The Scream. This prompted discussion about the original work so I had to google it when we got home and printed her a copy of it and then Enchanted Learning (gotta love that site) have a colour it in yourself version so I printed her that off as well. She was much impressed.
As to the proposed awards system, she’s much impressed with that too. She has decided on stickers rather than tokens and wants to negociate what she gets for a certain number of stickers over a set time period. So that’s what we will do for now. We are still doing different colours for different topics though and she accepts that she does have to have variety and was remarkably excited to find art and music on the list! So, it’s now down to me isn’t it to facilitate…..
Step one of facilitation was removing the ****** jigsaw of the kitchen table. Who the **** gives an 8 year old a 1000 piece jigsaw of the livery companies of London????? but anyway, we finished it (apart from the 3 lost bits) took photos for posterity and shoved it back in it’s box. So now the table is clear for crafting/art etc adn I can fold it away to get to the sewing machine. this gives her lots of options.
have put our sorry tick box on flickr for y’all to chortle at!
Comment by HelenHaricot — October 27, 2009 @ 1:14 am