Art & Science, week 22 with Catholic Schoolhouse Curriculum

Art: "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?" To wrap up our art studies in America, we are looking at the book illustrations of Eric Carle. Students are making State Symbol books that are inspired by Eric Carle's work. The state symbols in our books are:

• The Cardinal
• The Dogwood
• The Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
• The American Fox Hound

Step One of our project: Painted textured sheets for each symbol. Students were allowed to use their fingers, paint brushes, Q-tips, popsickle sticks, and feathered balls to create textures within their watercolors and acrylics.

• Red, orange, yellow mixed and feather texture added
• brown and green mixed and ridges made with wooden sticks
• yellow and black stripes
• brown with white spots

*Activity is a suggested project in the CSH Art Curriculum. 

Science: Solar Power Experiment.

We used the Solar Power Kit from Home Science Tools to great success.