Air Painting

Genesis 1:6- Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." (NKJV)


For an introduction to homeschooling (more for mama to get used to homeschooling than for the kids, I think!), we are doing Weaver's Interlock. I find we skip quite a bit since the boys understand a lot of it already. Today, we continued learning about air and wind. The above verse is the boys' memory verse for the week. I thought it was pretty applicable, since for the past few days we have been having horrendous winds around here. Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night (I am pregnant, remember! LOL), and heard the winds howling. I could hear our trellis on the front porch banging against the porch, threatening to fly away. This morning, we found it flung off, stuck in the snow at the end of the house. My husband put it in the garage. At least it wasn't damaged too bad. Spring can't come fast enough! :)




The photos are of "air painting" the boys did. You were to take paint, dab a straw in it, put your thumb over the top of the straw, put the straw over a piece of paper, then take your thumb off the end. You could also blow into the "thumb end" of the straw to make it more interesting. I also watered down the tempera paint a touch to make it easier to blow around. I think it was a pretty neat idea, and something that kept the boys occupied for a while!




We also talked about clouds and how there are different types in the sky. Unfortunately, the wind blew them all out of the sky today, but we still had fun pulling cotton balls apart and gluing them onto our watercolored skies.

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In other news, I decided to finally call and make an appointment to have my teeth cleaned. I am ashamed to admit it has been a few years since I saw the inside of a dentist's office! It makes it a bit hard with children and no one to really watch them. I called Dave and asked him what he thought of me making an appointment for Matthew, too, while I was at it. He said go for it since Matti will be turning 5 in May. When I called, I was told that the earliest we could be seen was May! So, mama and Matthew have appointments in early May. Dave is going to meet me and the boys there, so we will all squish into the room for a show! :D I pray that Matthew will handle this appointment better than his last well-child checkup when he was about 2. He wouldn't even stand on the scale, he was so scared and he cried and cried. He does have a Berenstain Bear book about visiting the dentist, so I think we will be sure to read that more often to him as the day approaches...