A few weeks ago, we rowed Harold and the Purple Crayon (FIAR Volume II).
We started off the week with a co-op class.
Painting the color wheel.
Drawing lots of purple chalk lines.
Gobbling strawberry, apple, peach-blueberry, and pumpkin goodness at our own pie picnic.
We continued the learning at home.
We watched a video about how crayons are made.
Constructed a purple picture with lots of shapes and fun purple things.
Colored a huge purple mural with Harold as the star artist.
Played Harold's drawing game.
We also watched an animated version of the story.
Another Harold hurrah was our field trip to The Artist Within.
Listening to the story
Glazing a ceramic crayon
We even had a purple crayon sugar cookie and some purple juice!
Simon and his purple crayon.
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Do you enjoy FIAR? How did you decide this was the curriculum you wanted to use? How did you get started? Thanks!
We look forward to ‘rowing’ this book! Thank you for sharing 🙂 Looks like a lot of fun *Ü*
Love harold & the purple crayon! What fun activtiies & I love the purple crayon your son made!! I would love for you to com elink up at TGIF Linky Party http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/2011/11/tgif-linky-party-4.html
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Hi Alexandra!
We’ve used Before Five in a Row and Five in a Row for many years. I decided this was the curriculum I wanted to use when my oldest son was just 2 (we started with Before Five in a Row). I wanted something connected to good literature and something that would stir up curiosity in my son. I also wanted something with short lessons in the extra subjects (science, history, art), so that we could spend time focusing on laying a great foundation in reading, writing, and math.
Please let me know if you have any other questions! 🙂 Ami
Looks like so much fun!!!
We’re doing Harold and the Purple Crayon next week! I hope I can bake as many pies as you did! They look really yummy!