Category: dahlia
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Eric Carle project
As part of the Art Docent program at IVE, Dahlia's class put together a mural imitating Eric Carle's books. First the class painted large pieces of paper with lots of different colors and patterns. Second we pulled students over to our table in the back of class to cut out shapes from the paper they…
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Painting the bathroom
While I painted the bathroom the girls did their own painting. Monti switched from painting to making figures out of clay.
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Shedd Aquarium
At the Shedd Aquarium we saw the 4D version of “Planet Earth – Shallow Seas”. I am not a big fan of 4D. I must have been sprayed 8 times during the 15 minute film and I jumped out of my skin when a poke in the back coincided with the sea snake scene.
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Miniature rooms
Monti wanted to go to the Art Institute specifically for the miniature rooms. The rooms are scaled one inch to one foot and show European and American rooms from the late 13th century to 1930’s.
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Young artist at work
Monti learns how to duplicate artwork by using a grid system. She spent about 20 minutes working on her picture. The girls worked on illustrations for their own story book. The picture behind them is a replication of “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”done by Japanese high school students using punched out paper dots.
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Water park fun
Chip and Kim belong to the YMCA in Plainfield. Inside the YMCA there is a great water park which is the perfect place to have some family fun time. The water and air temperature is warm enough for even me. It has a range of water slides and sprayers along with my favorite — the…
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best buddies
Brecken spent the night with my girls at my mom’s house while Gabe hada game filled birthday party at his house for 25-30 kids. Dahlia andBrecken were the best of friends. Dahlia even gave up sleeping with meor Monti to sleep with Brecken.
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Snow Fest Chicago
In Grant Park the City of Chicago was holding an event called SnowDays. There were about 20 snow artists working on a variety ofintricate sculptures. Unfortunately Chicago had some unseasonably warmtemperatures earlier in the week. All the artists were extremelybehind on their work which needed to be done by noon the followingday. The artists told…