Art, week 18 with Catholic Schoolhouse Curriculum

This week students took what they learned last week about pointillism and applied it to water colors, trying to create an impressionism-era-inspired work of art. I especially liked the painting below by one of our 8 year-old boys. In case you cannot tell, it is a bridge with a sunset behind.The students used Q-tips and water colors.

As with all art classes, there were some more excited about the activity than others, but for the most part the students worked diligently and finished before our 30 minutes came to an end.

*A Catholic Schoolhouse Art Curriculum Activity. 

Week 16 - 18 St. Francis Xavier Cabrini and Faith...


“We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone.” (St. Frances Xavier Cabrini)




St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Feastday: November 13
Patron of immigrants
Died: 1917

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (Feast day November 13) St. Frances was born in Lombardi, Italy in 1850, one of thirteen children. At eighteen, she desired to become a Nun, but poor health stood in her way. She helped her parents until their death, and then worked on a farm with her brothers and sisters.

One day a priest asked her to teach in a girls' school and she stayed for six years. At the request of her Bishop, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals. Then at the urging of Pope Leo XIII she came to the United States with six nuns in 1889 to work among the Italian immigrants.

Filled with a deep trust in God and endowed with a wonderful administrative ability, this remarkable woman soon founded schools, hospitals, and orphanages in this strange land and saw them flourish in the aid of Italian immigrants and children. At the time of her death, at Chicago, Illinois on December 22, 1917, her institute numbered houses in England, France, Spain, the United States, and South America. In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized when she was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII. St. Frances is the patroness of immigrants.

-Found in www.catholic.org

Art, Week 17, Mary Cassat and Shading

This week students learned how to draw 3-D objects and how to use various shading techniques. For the younger children, I had pre-drawn cubes an
d circles for them to shade. The students caught on very quickly, and even the less-motivated among them completed their cubes and circles before class was finished.

The main point they took away with them was that light shines in a direction, so the side closest to light will be brightest and the side farthest away from the light will be darkest. They were sent home to look for shadows and to draw objects this week using their new techniques.
*A Catholic Schoolhouse Art Curriculum Activity. Worksheets seen here were drawn by Mrs. Rolling. 

Science, Week 17, Human Body

This week students learned a bit of first aid. I began the class by asking them if they or any of their siblings had ever been to the emergency room. As expected, each family had at least one story to tell, and they all enjoyed telling their injury stories.

Then, we continued to talk about the types of injuries that can cared for at home if the right supplies are handy. The checklist given to students is based off one by the Boy Scouts of America. I explained each of the supplies in their first aid kits, and they assembled their own kits.

All first-aid supplies were bought at the local Dollar Tree or grocery store (butterfly-bandages). The plastic containers are just the right size for throwing into a back-pack for a hiking trip! Each student was very proud to have his name on the kit, too.

Wishing all students a Blessed Lent!

Alecia Rolling

Art and Science, Week 16 with Catholic Schoolhouse Curriculum

Art: Mary Cassatt and a Value Study

This week in art students began to learn about value, not of things, but of light and dark. They were given a black-line print of The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt and were allowed to choose one color to use for the entire print. Their task was to focus on the direction of light and what things would be dark and what things would be light. They seemed to jump on board!*

Science: The Human Body

We spent time exploring lung capacity this week using the CSH Science Curriculum; however, the activity seemed a bit too advanced for those students under 11 years of age. Since we only have a few who are older, it did not go over as well as it might have. The youngest students enjoyed being the "guinea pigs" of the older students, though!

Classroom Etiquette Note: Please remind students that they should remain quiet and respectful during instructions; otherwise, they waste time by asking questions during the experiment that need not be asked had they listened in the first place. This is most true for the older students.

Blessings on Saint Valentine's Feast!

Alecia Rolling

*Art: A CSH Art Curriculum Activity. Drawing on whiteboard made by Mrs. Rolling. 

Art, week 15 with Catholic Schoolhouse Curriculum

This week the students learned about the horizon line and painted seascapes with water colors. They then made origami boats of different sizes to glue to their seascapes. This was a great opportunity to review perspective by putting the smaller boats farther up the paper than the larger boats. Winslow Homer's paintings have been a great inspiration in the use of color and perspective. The boys have especially enjoyed his more masculine style of painting and perception.

Read more about Winslow Homer here.
This is a CSH Art Curriculum Activity.

Second Quarter Quilt is finished!

The students worked very hard to finish their 9-patch blocks before Christmas break. After some sewing on my part, we now have a finished quilt that the group plans to raffle off in the parish. We are hoping that the funds from this fundraiser will help with the expenses of field trips, supplies, and our end of the year program.

Here is a great link to help your children have fun learning geography.  It coincides well with what we are learning now - States and Capitals!  My boys loved these pages!

State Flower and State Bird coloring page

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