Haystacks & Golliwogs

We finished up our study of Monet and Debussy with his painting titled "Haystacks" and Debussy's Golliwogs Cakewalk. The boys recognized the song because Jordan was learning it about a year ago. 

They confused the haystacks with rocks but then I showed them a real photo of haystacks, it made more sense. 

I had them create art with food. What kid (or person) doesn't like food art?

We have been learning about new instruments and YouTube is awesome. We can search any instrument and get demonstrations of them and hear some really amazing things. So far we've learned about the harp, harpsicord, triangle, viola, bassoon, cymbals, and gongs. Really cool. I found some nomenclature cards so we organized them into their respective categories and Cedrik did really well. The only ones he had a hard time with were percussion, because we hadn't gone over them and the organ. Even Jordan wasn't sure which category that fit info. 

Cedrik is still doing his reading lessons. His incentive (that he decided himself) was that he wanted to read so he can play monopoly. Or he has to wait until he is 8. Big incentive, he loves board games. 

We celebrated pioneer day by listening to a few pioneer hymns  and songs during breakfast-big hit. We walked to a lady's house to see her new kitten and on the way pretended we were pioneers and each time we crossed a road we pretended it was water. We sat under a tree and Cedrik scouted for Indians, found some, but informed us that they were nice.