This series of lesson outlines are modelled after the Right Brain Kids home learning lessons. They are a terrific way to supplement and build upon the knowledge learned during TweedleWink classes. They can also be used as a homeschool curriculum.
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Art: Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne was a French painter who usually painted still life art using geometric shapes. He believed that everything in the world was made up of either a sphere, a cone, a cylinder or a cube.
- Flashcards: Paul Cézanne – Artworks
“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.”
Paul Cézanne
Online
Paul Cézanne Youtube Art Lessons:
Paul Cézanne Art Projects for Kids
Create your own still life:
- Gather fruit, perhaps a pitcher, or a vase of flowers.
- Let your child choose and arrange the objects.
- Then, paint or sketch what you see…
- Hang up your pictures and admire your work
More About Paul Cézanne
Vocabulary: Nature
Increase your child’s neural connections to the the new nature words in his vocabulary with nature walks – collecting leaves, flower, bits of bark and rocks for hands-on play later at home.
Boost outdoor learning with these fun activities:
- COLOR FIND – Paint the inside of a clean egg carton in varied colors. Bring it with you on your nature walk and look for things that match.
- SCAVENGER HUNT – Use discovery nature cards or a printable check sheet filled with 20 things you might find on a typical walk
This list includes: bird, tree roots, ant, spiderweb, green leaf, acorn, flower, log, mushroom, two similar rocks, squirrel, tall grass, stick that looks like the letter Y, flying bug, brown leaf, cloud, dandelion, animal footprints, wild berries (do not eat), pine cone.
- NATURE JOURNAL – Bring a notebook and a pencil to sketch leaf shapes, flowers, trees, insects, birds and interesting animals that you come across. Your child can draw the pictures. You add the words!
- TOUCH AND TALK – If you are taking a walk with a baby or toddler, let them touch and feel the different objects as you verbally label them. “This is an oak tree. Do you feel it’s bark. The surface is rough.”
- MATCHING GAMES – As you walk, you can gather items for a matching game to play later, at home. Collect objects in twos: 2 pinecones, 2 identical leaves, 2 identical stones, etc. Later, you can line up one set of objects and give your child the rest, to match.
Exploring Nature Educational Resource
This is an awesome site with lots of educational resources. Here are just a few of the activities that we like:
- Matching animal tracks worksheet
- Make your own “Nature Colour Wheel“
- Leaf People – Outdoor Art Activity
Indoor Nature Activities
Just because you can’t be outside doesn’t mean you can’t bring nature into the house. Try these awesome Indoor Nature Activities from “How We Learn”.
Nature Art
- Make Your Own Rainbow – 5 ways to make rainbows at home
Videos
Let’s Learn About Trees – Adventures in Learning on PBS
- Tree Science Lesson
- Let’s Learn about Trees – Science News for Students
- Cat in the Hat Learning Library: I Can Name 50 Trees Today!
Art: Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist. In Gauguin’s world, colors collided on the canvas. He threw out the rule book. He believed that cows could be red, rivers could be pink, and trees could have many shades of blue.
“In painting as in music one should look for suggestions rather than description.”
Paul Gauguin
Notice to Parents: Paul Gauguin and many other artists and musicians have quite “colorful” life stories. So, when teaching children about these art histories, focus on the positive – their most inspirational pieces of art and their ground-breaking techniques.
Printables
Paul Gauguin for Kids
Meet the Masters is a paid online art course for art students of all levels wishing to learn more about the styles of different artists. They also feature the painting style of Paul Gauguin.
Vocabulary: Garden Tools
Learn about garden tools! There is something very healing about caring for growing plants. This segment goes hand-in-hand with the nature lesson. You can help your child experience the wonder of growing life through planting your own outdoor or indoor garden.
- Flashcards: Gardening Tools
Gardening with Kids
Easy Container Planters for Kids:
- Indoor potted plants – 30 Gorgeous Indoor Plants That Are Almost Impossible to Kill
- Low Maintenance Shrubs
- Indoor Herb Garden – e.g. mint, parsley, cilantro, thyme, basil, chives, oregano, sage.
- Kids Gardening Projects
Composting
Help your child see the beneficial effects of composting to create fertile soil for new plant life.
Recycled Tire Gardens
Science: Animal Cells
Cell structure is fun to teach when you have a hands-on model. If your child helps create this model, then the information is anchored even more deeply… with a happy memory!
Animal Cell Models
Ways to make your own Animal Cell Model:
- Edible Models
- pizza
- giant cookie
- cake top
- bagels, doughnuts
- Inedible Models
- playdough
- pillows and quilts
- felt
Colouring
Videos
ANIMAL CELL STRUCTURE – animation for children
MAKING AN ANIMAL CELL CAKE by a young student for homework – includes information about each cell part
