I will update this post as and when required with Arjun’s artwork this academic year. He does art while I read to him or else while we listen to audiobooks. He is taking art courses from Colin Bradley Art.
We are studying Japan after completing North and South Korea as part of Unit 2 of our academic year. We studied Japanese history and geography from the book: Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere by April Lotempio. To understand the culture in more depth we did the following:
We listened to following talks of Shri Mataji:
We read following books:
Arjun created following haiku titled “Global Warming”:
Carbon increases,
Hurricanes, fires, whirlwinds rage;
Still slaves of money.
We saw following movies:
Arjun did following Japan inspired artwork:
We ate following food that we bought from Kroger:
We made the following Japanese food:
We have spent our first unit of grade 5 studying China. We read Chinese History and Geography from the book: Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere by April Lotempio. To understand the culture in more depth we did the following:
We listened to following talks of Shri Mataji:
We read following books:
Creative Writing: Arjun wrote a story called “Facing Your Fears” set in China.
We watched following movies:
Arjun created following Chinese themed artwork:
Arjun has really become good at using chopsticks. Following food was either made by Arjun on his own such as Chinese Almond Cookies, Egg Drop Soup, Chinese Steamed Cake and so on, or we made them together:
Our friend who is born and brought up in Hongkong made this Hongkong Style Noodles for us. It was absolutely delicious.
July
Arjun did 1-week classes from Nirmal Arts Academy: Watercolor and Aboriginal Painting. He learnt a lot and really enjoyed the classes. Here are photos of his creations.
August
Arjun did another 1-week classes from Nirmal Arts Academy: Drama Therapy (performed a scene from Commedia Dell’arte – Character: Harlequin. He designed his own costume), Watercolor, Zentangle and Harmonium (he learnt raga Des, Bhoopali, Durga and he learnt bhajans: Namami Shri Ganaraja Dayaal).
Have you ever used salt in an art project? I have, and it was very fun. Read on, and you can make your own!
After I wrote Children of the Sun, my family and I thought it would be even better if we could get bold, colorful, vivid illustrations made for the book. We wanted these to be good illustrations, not just amateur drawings, but we also hoped it could be drawn by the hand of a child. Then, we were able to find the solution—our art teacher, Mrs. Vicki Farmer, would help us—that is, my younger brother Arjun and myself—make the illustrations. Thanks to her, this book has become enriched with these illustrations.
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