Weekly Wrap-Up: 3-D Notebook Pages, Art Copywork, and Something Yummy!

We had a GREAT week and I have so many fun things to share that I will get right to the wrap-up!



Mr. B found this painting made to depict Hadrian's Wall building and it was a great additional to our history study. It turned into a complete picture study, looking carefully at the details and learning more about the story behind the painting as explained in Wikipedia.

Mr. B has such a great sense of humor and as he studied his history this week, specifically about different Roman emperors, he came up with a comic/cartoon to go along with his research on Emperor Trajan. We pulled up one of the new 3-D templates from NotebookingPages.com and he used each page as one frame of his comic. He was trying to show how Emperor Trajan was really into building public buildings and putting his name on everything he could.


Here are the pages before we adhered them to the notebook page. (3-D Top-Tab Book Template)

First two pages: Trajan's Column and Trajan's Bridge- Mr. B insisted that the column had to go portrait and not landscape so I just let him make it work....love being flexible.



Third and Fourth pages: Trajan's Bath and Trajan's Lunchbox. Don't you just love it when your children make their study personalized like this and show how their own take on a topic. Mr. B does this a lot in his study and I am glad I could share this example with you.


Here is how they look on the notebook page, inserted onto one of the blank rectangles on the notebooking page. We used tape to put the book together and to adhere it to the notebook page. (We had trouble because he accidentally did the written notes on a page that didn't have the square for the 3-D book. I just cut the top off the other page and adhered it to the correct page....need to plan ahead better.)

Very clever and I could see how you could really use this idea to enhance your written narrations from history, literature, art, and science. (There are science notebooking pages which are included in the Treasury Membership.)

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Look at this selection of Modern Times notebook pages! We are really enjoying the research and discussion that ties in with so many current events in the news. (These pages are from History Scholar and History Scribe.)


Mr. B picked his last artist of the year for his picture study and art appreciation. His choice? David Hockney. Wow, I would have never picked this particular artist but now that I see his work and how he uses technology for art, I can see the attraction. Here is the lesson plan for this project: David Hockney Inspired Chair.


Here is a video that shows how David Hockney uses his iPhone as an easel for artwork. Interesting.


Mr. B made a wild rice dish this week as part of his cooking course. It made a wonderful side dish to our baked chicken night. (Taking photos of food seems weird but it is fun to see all the delicious recipes he has made over the past year.)

So there are some of our fun highlights from the week. This weekend we are having a big graduation party with Mr. A's friends.....when you homeschool it is a lot of fun to come up with ways to celebrate these events. I will share next week.

Hope everyone is enjoying their last few weeks of school!

Barb-Harmony Art Mom