Spring Art Ideas

Below are some art ideas that may inspire both you and your child:

Rainy Art:

View Takahashi Shotei-Hiroaki's "Night Shower" here:
Night Shower

View Ando Hiroshige's "Sudden Showers" here: Sudden Showers

Encourage your child to create a drawing that includes rain. Notice that the angle that the rain is drawn depicts the windiness of the weather. The greater the angle, the windier the weather.

You can view more rainy art by Takahoshi Shotei-Hiroshige in the slideshow below:

This free digital slideshow personalized with Smilebox

Sunny Art:

Robert Duncan is able to capture the essence of Spring through his paintings. Many of his paintings contain people. Focus on how he captures "spring" through the content of his art and the use of a spring colour palette. View some of his art below:

Simple Things

Spring

Mountain Garden

Encourage your child to use a spring colour palette in an original painting. A spring palette includes mainly bright yellows, yellow greens, purples and pinks.

Other Spring Art ideas:

Georgia O'Keefe - Abstract Flowers

What's Outside Your Window?

How to Draw a Flower video

Drawing from Nature

Winter Art Gallery

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Homeschooling Conventions

Spring has arrived and along with it many homeschooling conference dates! If you need some encouragement, inspiration or just a bit of fellow homeschooler fellowship, then try to take in all or part of a homeschooling conference near you. Below is the information that was emailed to families prior to Spring Break, but in case you need the links again, here they are. Click on the name of the convention to link to it's information website.

BC CHEC - Kelowna, BC - April 30th - May 1st

BC Homeschooling Convention - Surrey, BC - June 4th and 5th - (not a lot of info available yet ...)

Alberta Events and Conferences - (various dates and locations)

The Old Schoolhouse Expo - ONLINE 3 DAY CONFERENCE - May 12th- 14th - This is an EXCELLENT opportunity for families who are not able to travel to a conference. The registration fee is $19.99 and there are some amazing speakers lined up! All of the sessions will be provided to registrants in a MP3 format so that you can listen to them whenever you like. There are also a ton of freebies!!!



Please note: You are welcome to use your PO# to purchase next year's curriculum at the conferences. Anchor Academy will have a booth set up at all of the conferences so that you can re enroll and get you PO# at that time if you need to.

Please feel free to contact me with any curriculum concerns, questions or for recommendations. Blessings!

Fruit of the Spirit ~ March Journal Writing Ideas ~ Faithfulness

During the month of March, you may like to use the following journal writing ideas with your child. The focus this month is on the seventh part of the fruit of the spirit - faithfulness.

Copywork: Have your child copy the old hymn (or a part of it), "Great is Thy Faithfulness". Discuss with your child how God's faithfulness is described through the imagery of this hymn's lyrics. The lyrics from the song can be found here: Great is Thy Faithfulness



Journal Starters:
Faithfulness means ...
An example of faithfulness is ...
I know that God is faithful because ...
I can show faithfulness to others by ...

Story Response: Read Matthew 25:14-31. Two of the servants were called "good and faithful" by their master. What characteristics made those two servants "faithful"? Have your child record in his or her journal how he/she can be faithful with what God has given him/her i.e. money, talents, material goods, etc.

Deeper Thinking ~ Obedience is a result of faithfulness.
Discuss the above statement with your child. Encourage him/her to record his/her own thoughts about the relationship between faithfulness and obedience in his/her journal. Using an example of a faithful dog being obedient to his owner may be a good place to start with describing faithfulness in a relationship. Then you can relate this to family relationships and to one's relationship with God.