Sailing Away



Aislynn & Carson's Pointillism Artwork

Today we built an imaginary boat and went sailing in it after reading the book We'll All Sail Away. We had a few close calls with some sharks and alligators, but managed to save a parrot that was stranded in the middle of the sea before tumbling down a waterfall. (Seriously folks, the children make this stuff up, not me!)

We continued to learn about tempo and did some more movement with scarves to fast and slow music. Then we listened to the song A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea and played our rhythm sticks with a fast steady beat, then a second time with a slow steady beat.

In art, we learned about Georges Seurat (zhorzh sir-ah), who also liked to use dots in a style that is called pointillism. The children used Q-tips and tempera paint to create their own pointillist artwork.