Summer Lessons - Wednesday

Art is the focus for Wednesday. We've used a book a little, but mostly it has been freestyle, whatever the kids come up with to create. Josiah draws robots and rockets and sometimes flowers which are very nice.
Hannah recently made popsicle stick puppets and has 5 different puppet shows that she does with them. She turned a card table on it's side to use as a theatre.

These are the characters for THE BEAR AND THE BUTTERFLIES.

Here is CINDERELLA with her step mother and step sisters.

Here is CINDERELLA with the Fairy godmother and her new gown.

Notice how she changes with the flick of a wrist.

The following is Hannah's rendition of THE ROBOT AND THE RABBIT. The sound did not come out well, so here's the basic script.

The mighty robot goes to the store and sees a lovely doll that he wants and so he buys it with his robot credit card. He loves the doll and he hugs it and hugs it until it breaks. He runs into the woods and cries. A rabbit hears his cries and comes to see what is going on. The mighty robot tells him that he has broken what he loved the most. The rabbit tells him that he must learn to be gentle. The robot asks how he can be gentle since he is so strong. The wise rabbit tells him that gentleness is strength under control. The robot then asks the rabbit how he can know so much about strength, when he is just a small rabbit. The rabbit replies that at home he has some ants and every Thursday night they watch a movie and eat popcorn together. But the popcorn gets butter all over their toes, so he has to very carefully clean the butter off their little toes. To the ants, he is like a mighty robot. They laugh and they laugh and the robot promises to be gentle. He wants to save his money and get another doll.