"Could you make a history blog, Mom? About ancient things."

I like ancient things: some of the things they look like little scribbles but they're actually ancient writing. I like those ancient writing scribbles because they look cool, because of where they're found.


I like some of the buildings that were built in ancient times because some of them they have part of their frame sticking out.



I like the Great Wall of China because it's really long and in some pictures it goes up and down and it's really swervy and it would be fun to walk on it.



I like the Greek temples because of all the pillars and all the stories about them.


And I like the description and the pictures of the statue of Zeus. I like the description because it's made of gold and ivory and it's made of all kinds of metal.



Written by K2.

BTG's impressions of winter.

Ancient Egypt through the eyes of my children: King Tut and Queen Nefertiti

We have a fantastic art teacher! She's an amazing woman who loves to teach our children and loves history and has combined the two beautifully. Here, the children made a clay mold of Queen Nefertiti and King Tut's heads. They then cut out the headpieces from cardboard and our fantastic teacher, who was about to have her 4th child, covered them with paper mache. At the next class the children were able to paint them and bring them home. Lovely!

tulips

"A tulip!" shrieks K2.

We left it in the ground for a day but couldn't really see it or the orange one in the corner from inside the house.

There are others growing, but these are the first.

Beautiful to me. Spring is really here.

CTM seemed to me more like an artist than a hungry boy preparing his breakfast. The colours in this bowl struck me with such force that I just had to take some photos. Poor guy just wanted to eat! It seemed to me that he had arranged the fruit since it almost had the shape of a wagon wheel or flower, but no he had not. He did admit that sometimes he does.
Isn't that something that so many of us adults forget? Joy in the moment, delight with simple things: these bring abundance to our lives.

BTG wanted to share these

BTG gave a lovely explanation to me of this picture:

I learned that goldfish flowers when they are ripe, they are bright orangey-red and then when they get older, their bulb kind of shrinks and the seed inside them isn’t in the middle of the flower anymore. And then when they shrivel up and die they fall off the plant.

Cleaver:
With this, I discovered that it grows in bunches of two or three together. And I also discovered that it was very hard to draw.

Last summer, BTG sat on a log in the backyard and drew this sketch of the neighbouring farm. She concentrated especially on getting the shadows right.

K2's favourite recent pictures

a primula flower from our windowsill, dried and glued into his book

K2 wants you to be sure you can read the caption he wrote under the picture:

a 9 month old baby!

Jack Frost's work is gorgeous on our old, drafty windows.

Birds by CTM: