I can’t tell you what peace of mind comes from knowing that the grand a month per child we drop on all-day preschool and pre-kindergarten goes toward the very best in classical education.
Logan attended this school for two years, and Dylan is in his second, and Daphne has this year and the next before she can start kindergarten at the local public school, which is excellent, thanks be to Allah.
During this time, we have brought home the greatest little art pieces and newsletters. Things like “This week’s musical artist is DeBussy…” or “Today we drew the Mona Lisa, with particular attention to…” I just wish I could find Dylan’s Degas dancing girl. He nailed it, right down to her little bun. Of all the kids, I think he has the best perspective.
Anyway, I just had to show you some of the things they’ve brought home lately, next to the works that inspired them…
(Oh, and if I ever find the Mondrian, I’ll post that too, and I am just waiting for Daphne’s rendering of Picasso’s Violin to come off the classroom wall! Picture a cup of coffee spilled over the outline of a… of a… pear? Crime scene chalk outline? Coffin? Cello?)
Oh! And I have no idea where this little gem fits into the Sistine Chapel ceiling… no amount of Googling yielded anything similar, but it’s so cute I had to put it up too.
I really like the colors in the Van Gogh study. If he issues a limited edition series, please e-mail me!
We do this at home using this website for worksheets.
I love classical education hoo-ha.
But if the mona lisa was wearing a SMITTEN then they’d be even brillianter
My secret word is “wish”. Do I get to make one?
Galloping: I nearly spit coke all over my keyboard. Luckily it was my desk, and no papers were hit.
oh oh oh and oh from whence this talent???? And the secret word? those, as in those kids make me weep with joy! Can we make some cash on these? A little limited edition of prints from the precocious? Who says art is dead in our schools these days? Grandma alias Mindy’s Mom
ooh ooh, i checked back and, aside from being pleased i made you spit coke, i have to report that my secret word is ART!
and this is the last time but i just saw my email address was a typo. duh. (“real” this time)
Debussey and Degas—sublime! Coffee spilled on a cello—ridiculous! ;~
Classical education—an idea whose time has come (again)!
As an art history teacher I wonder if the blue portraiture is perhaps Michelangelo’s Delphes Sylphide from the Sistine Chapel. But, it looks more like a Raphael Madonna to me…though much cuter!
Your children are very artistic! Truly impressive!
P.S. I love your mom!
Auntie Amber is very proud indeed! Please tell me these are in glass frames lining your hall way!
Thanks for that link Nikol.
Oh, my, our schools are, um, not that nice
But I did get a wonderful portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. the other day. Kinda. It was pretty much all brown, and didn’t look much at all human.