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Thursday, October 30

Time to work on the second requirement for the art belt loop, using 6 of the elements of design in a drawing.

I found an article on WikiPedia about the elements of art just to use as a visual aid, something to help explain each term to Joshua instead of having to rely on myself to do all the talking. He seemed to understand most of what I was saying, so I gave him a piece of paper and told him to think about what he could draw. I suggested that he draw something about our family, so he could add it to his family scrapbook that he started at a den meeting last month. (And we haven't added anything to it since , so being able to put in another page will help.)

He decided he was going to draw something about Disney World, since that is where we took our family vacation this past summer. He ended up drawing the icon from each park, as well as the hub in front of the castle and our hotel, Wilderness Lodge. Now of course he is only 6 so these were very basic, but I was impressed. He connected all these things with "roads".

By my count, his drawing included the use of lines, circles, shapes (other than circles), colors, space and balance.

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Friday, October 31

When I picked up Joshua at school today, a couple of the teachers who have duty in the car-riders line were telling me that Joshua's poster won the school contest! - Remember the collage I had him make a couple of weeks back, to tell about what he wanted to be when he grew up? Well this has been Red Ribbon Week and they had a pep rally this afternoon to wrap it all up. And during the pep rally he got called to the front and awarded his "prize". It was a drawstring backpack/bag that had something about drug-free on it. It was filled with several freebies, some were cheap trinkets, and there was a coupon for a free ice-cream cone from McDonald's. He was really excited about it. I asked him if anybody else won anything and he said no. I guess next week I will find out more about it. One of the teachers had said something about the counselor giving me all the details, so perhaps she will call or send a note home. Who knows, he might have been the only entrant! (His school is just kindergarten and first grade.) The contest was not promoted at all, the only place I saw it was in the monthly PTA newsletter.

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Joshua didn't earn his Wii time today (too much talking in class ), so we spent some time after school doing another elective toward a Tiger Track bead. I chose number 15, which is to mix the primary colors to come up with the secondary colors. I decided it would be easiest to just use crayons for this part. Joshua knew about mixing colors, as they had already covered that to some extent in Preschool and Kindergarten. He now has 4 out of 10 toward his first bead.