Hey, Look! It’s Van Gogh!
Posted by TulipGirl | Under Art and Beauty, Family Journal, Homeschooling Tuesday Jun 9, 2009
“Hey, Look! It’s Van Gogh!”
That’s what C8 said, as he brought me a sadly neglected Christmas leftover, a snowman pencil topper missing one of its pom-pom ear muffs. I guess the books we’ve been reading
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We’ve been using Ambleside Online Yr. 5 as the framework for our homeschooling since January. It’s been a good fit, the right balance between structure and flexibility, keeping the boys studying similar things but on their own levels. AO encourages the exposure to and study of an artist each term.
Our local museum doesn’t have a Van Gogh in its permanent collection, and unfortunately not in its special exhibitions either right now. My favorite Van Gogh is at my favorite museum, The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise at Musée d’Orsay.
The screensaver on the kids’ computer rotate Van Gogh works and the boys know them better than I do now, and these are some of their favorites. . .
i love that!
It’s neat to see what you are doing with your boys. I think we’ll use Ambleside online too down the road. I hadn’t seen that Van Gogh book before. My girls like the board book “In the Garden with Van Gogh” and my favorite painting in that book is “First Steps” (http://www.vangoghartprints.net/van_gogh_first_steps.html).
Thanks for sharing. :)
Is there a scope and sequence for Ambleside Online? I was trying to figure it out from their website, but was having trouble. Wondering what the method is to what gets studied and when.
The pencil topper made me laugh out loud! And I *heart* Van Gogh, too.
We were studying Van Gogh early this year, so I bought calendar with his paintings for my kitchen. The Bedroom at Arles was January’s and I’ve been missing seeing that one.
Our pastor mentioned him favorably in a sermon last year which piqued my interest in him — he’s usually presented as a nutcase.
Had you read that two art historians say that Van Gogh’s ear was actually cut off by his friend Gauguin’?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/04/vincent-van-gogh-ear
HA! LOVE the pencil~LOL! I have one in AO’s year 5 too~WE LOVE IT and are AO diehards. Please share the screensaver you are using for the artwork~we used to use one and for some reason stopped, and I can’t remember what it was now? ACK! TIA! (((((HUGS))))) sandi
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