![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
not about cars
Apr. 13th, 2010 09:15 amCasper's class watched a movie about Claude Monet recently, and she came home full of chatter about the China Bridge, and benches, and water lilies, and his 8 children, and painting in the garden.
Last night at bedtime she pointed to a painting made by mr. flea's grandfather, which she keeps propped on her bureau, and told me she wanted to make a painting like that. It's of sunflowers, done in a thick textural style vaguely reminiscent of Van Gogh, on a canvas board. So we talked about Monet again, and painting from life in the garden this weekend. She wants an easel and a real canvas. I think those canvas boards are quite cheap, actually, and we could get her some acrylics (we only have tempera paint and watercolors right now). An easel is probably pricey, but we talked about how we could make one using a chair.
She was full of what she would paint (our big yellow rose bush which is in bloom) and where she would position herself. Surprisingly mature, for 6, I think.
In other news, she seems rather stressed about the CRCT (standardized tests) which start next week. She seems to be doing fine on the practices, and Mrs. C told me she's only ever had one student fail, and that student was not a native speaker of English. I think Mrs. C is stressed about it, though, and that communicates to the kids. And there is definitely teaching to the test going on - the content piece I think they would cover anyway, but they spend a lot of time on the format and practice tests. Sigh.
Last night at bedtime she pointed to a painting made by mr. flea's grandfather, which she keeps propped on her bureau, and told me she wanted to make a painting like that. It's of sunflowers, done in a thick textural style vaguely reminiscent of Van Gogh, on a canvas board. So we talked about Monet again, and painting from life in the garden this weekend. She wants an easel and a real canvas. I think those canvas boards are quite cheap, actually, and we could get her some acrylics (we only have tempera paint and watercolors right now). An easel is probably pricey, but we talked about how we could make one using a chair.
She was full of what she would paint (our big yellow rose bush which is in bloom) and where she would position herself. Surprisingly mature, for 6, I think.
In other news, she seems rather stressed about the CRCT (standardized tests) which start next week. She seems to be doing fine on the practices, and Mrs. C told me she's only ever had one student fail, and that student was not a native speaker of English. I think Mrs. C is stressed about it, though, and that communicates to the kids. And there is definitely teaching to the test going on - the content piece I think they would cover anyway, but they spend a lot of time on the format and practice tests. Sigh.