Ancient India, Art and Jazz

Well.. after posting our schedule.. today we ended up not even close to it! Well with the exeption of math in the morning :0 heres what we did today :)

The kids got dressed and ready to go to the library .. then they started thier math bookwork. While they worked on it I did a inventory of our groceries and got a shopping list together for later today. I also looked at our library accounts and gathered books etc that were due back today..
We headed to the library about 1015 or so.. (I had some things that were due so we had to go today.. on the way we sang our Presidents song, some memory verse songs, and the book of the Bible) .. At the library we found books for Cat on beads and beadwork (she is trying to start a jewelry making business and wanted to get ideas).. while downstairs I looked at the homeschooling section and picked up the book Creative HomeschoolingI have had this book before and wanted to get it again to look at its booklists and websites it has listed.:) We then headed back to the childrens section where we picked up a few Mem Fox books (she had a new one I have not read) "A Particular Cow" and another I had not seen by Cindy Neuschwander called Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter-a math adventure. ---we are all looking forward to reading these :) Obviously we did get other books but it would be too long of a post to tell you everyone :) hehe

After lunch we finished up our math (checking and making corrections), we then did our Latin memory posters, and then Joseph read a book to us that he selected. We then did our History coloring map work (Ancient India and the ruler Skandagupta) the kids also colored a picture of the Gupta Dynasty that included a ruler riding on an elephant. Here is a link if you are interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_Empire

The kids also began work on coloring a picture from "Art Masterpieces to Color" called Broadway Boogie by Piet Mondrian.
While coloring it I asked the kids the following questions:
1. What is this a picture of? Nathan, "squares", Catherine said "houses.. OH NO.. wait!... Its a map!" We then talked about what it looked like and how it seemed to be streets, cars, and buildings..
2. What is Broadway? (Joseph said .. a street)
3. Where is Broadway? (Joseph said.. NewYork)
4. Why do you think it is called Broadway Boogie?
While they were coloring I put on a Jazz CD for them to listen too.. it was by John Coltrane....I had them guess what the type of music was and then talked about Blues and Jazz. .. Here is a link to the website I just found.. it has a bit of his music playing on it.. :
http://www.johncoltrane.com/automat/swf/main.htm

We read our Bible for the day and then the kids had free time to color/read/draw or just play inside.
What a great day!

Blessings
R