Portrait class {Virtual Fridge}

This Week
We have slowly been working our way through a video art class by Graham Braddock called Real Drawing for Kids!  So far we have completed a still life drawing and a drawing of a kitten.  I so wish I had had art class by this gentleman when I was at school.  He has the most amazing way of explaining how to draw and place the parts of your pictures onto the page.  I highly recommend his art classes if you can attend them but if not you can purchase a three class DVD series from him.You can also purchase these as a download.We decided to use a layout guide for the portrait class and will be reattempting this class next year when the students are a little older.

Portrait drawn by Sir N Age 9

Portrait drawn by me.

Featured This Week

Last week Cindy from Two Muses Homeschool shared her FREE art appreciation printables with us.

Over at Raventhreads you can find a tutorial for this Wooden Block String Art.

Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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Blessings
Chareen

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The Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to co-host this weekly meme.

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Toad Heaven {Tuesday's Treasures}

• Format: Paper back / Hardback
• Number of Pages: 192
• Publication Date: 
• ISBN 10:0141314826
• ISBN 13:9780141314822
• Author Morris Gleitzman

Thanks to a friends excellent 10 cent library purchase Paul and Sir N have been enjoying Toad Heaven.  All I have heard for the past three days are gales of laughter and giggles of delight as they've met Limpy and his family.  Limpy is a cane toad living in Queensland Australia. Cane toads are vermin here in Australia and so their antics with the humans are really funny to read.  Limpy is the slightly squashed cane toad and the hero of the story.  In this book he is in search of a nature reserve for him and his friends.  For some reason nothing ever seems to go to play for the delightful trio.  This book definitely appeals to boy humour and is perfect for reading ages 8-10. 

There are a total of four books in the series

1. Toad Rage
2. Toad Heaven
3. Toad Away
4. Toad Surprise

Blessings
Chareen

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Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures. I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books and Resources out there out there hiding on shelves and somewhere on the internet.

I invite you to blog about

• a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library,
•  a great homeschool item you have found and
•  any new resources you are enjoying. 

Grab the button for your post and add a link to your post below. I would love to read about your treasures. 

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A week of photography class {HSMJ}

In my life this week…

I have had a busy week this week with driving my first born to interviews for possible IT apprenticeships. Please keep him in your prayers that the Lord would open up a door for him ...

Sir N and I attended a portrait photography lesson this week with Canon Australia.

I learned so much this week

Then today we attended a second Collective event and learned to shoot in manual mode with our cameras.  You can see more results of this on my two Instagram accounts Chareenr and Macro_Passion

In our home school this week…

• We finished listening to Little House in the Big Woods.
• Completed Giants! A Colossal Collection of Tales and Tunes by Jim Weiss. Wow we are super impressed with this kind of story telling.
• Worked on Veritas History
• N has been working through his Summer Mincraft Homeschool levels
• We have done our fair share of car schooling this week with the appointments that my first born had.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

•  If you haven't subscribed to Homeschool Giveaways and Freebies then I highly recommend that you do.  I have downloaded some excellent things.  Each week there are up to 10 freebies for you.
• FREE Architecture Curricula online
• Artist Study Resources: Free Notebook Pages, Lapbooks, Wall Charts, Lessons, & More! 
• Fine Art Pages
• Hymn Study Series: 7 Week Series Wrap-Up!  
• Composer Study Resources, Freebies, Printables and Deals  
• Ancient Lands Map Set FREEBIE 
• Be sure to check my Facebook page for more links to FREEBIES  
• Here is a neat spring craft (or winter to bring some colour into the home) D.I.Y. Swirly Paper Flowers
• Have you entered my draw to win over $700 worth of homeschool goodness ?  Be sure to leave a comment on my post for an extra entry. (This is only open to US citizens living in the USA)

Things I’m working on…

• New Virtual Refridgerator posts.  This week take a look at what Kym did.
• Shared some thoughts on The Hand that rocks the Cradle
• On Tuesday's Treasures I shared about meeting Dewey the Library Cat.

In Bloggy world I’m reading…

• Fibromyalgia Mystery Finally Solved!
• Books in the Home Are Strongly Linked to Academic Achievement “Regardless of how many books the family already has, each addition to the home library helps children do better (on the standard test).”
• This was an interesting read Are Xylitol, Sorbitol, and Other Sugar Alcohols Safe Replacements For Sugar?
• I think I might just give this a go I NEVER Knew You Could Do this With An Orange.
• 7 Skills Your Grandparents Had That You Don't

I’m cooking…

• .I want to give this a try Blueberry Delight

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

I love this photograph of the two of us together as normally I am the one lost behind the lens ...
Blessings

Chareen

Photo collages made with: Photoscape a FREE photo editor

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