Today it was Diorama Day. The kids both finished independently reading The Secret Garden and Tom Sawyer. We aborted Abeka’s reading program within 6 weeks of school starting. Seriously none of us could deal with it well. It would have the kids read 5 pages at a time. It was very choppy and just not our gig. I found some excellent things for our reading now. First stop was these novels and diorama’s. Next week new books begin.
This morning we went to Target to acquire some empty shoeboxes to begin the diorama project. When we got home, the kids picked their scenes out, discussed the book, and went nuts. Emma completely missed that the older two, were making scenes from their books. The funny thing is that she just went for it. With really no instruction on what it was “supposed” to be. She didn’t care and was happily proclaiming her creativity for the world to hear.
I still have my diorama that I made in 5th grade. It was of the book Benji and the Flood. It is packed far away in the abyss that is my garage. I remember making it with my grandma and grandpa. She clipped the metal ends off her special sewing pins to allow me to use the pearl at the top to hang down as rain drops in my box. Funny the things we remember.
Well here are our finished products! I love these. We are going to do them again this year for sure cuz they are fun!
This is Emma’s…do you see she has a chandelier hanging. I LOVE my girl. I’m training her well!
This is Taylor’s Secret Garden with real tissue paper flowers. Cameron’s follows of Tom Sawyer. Give that boy something to build and he is on a mission.
It was a great morning. Very relaxed. I really could play with crafts all the live long day!
Now there are just 82 school days left until summer.
Darcy–
I love your blog! I also have two sisters that homeschool and I commend you for doing so! Just wish that I had the patience to do it. Anyway, I’m stopping by from MBC FFF. Have a great evening. Lani
Thanks Lani!
I just started following your blog. I had to laugh when the first thing i saw was the diorama. This week my kids a week off from school (winer break) we had to do a brochure on india, an essay on the ozone layer, 100th day of school project, and we have an ovedue diaorama due this friday about Rockefellar center. When does my school work end!
lol, I hear ya!
This is a GREAT idea!! I’m going to HAVE to steal it!!! Now to find a little box! I’m going ot look at our lessons for the next week and see what I can incorporate into this idea!! Ohhh….this is sooo cute! Thank you!
Oh it’s super fun! We just went to Target took a couple of empty shoeboxes up to the front counter and asked if we could have them….
have fun!
Those are some really cute dioramas. I can’t believe you still have one form when you were in 5th grade! Mine would have been all crushed and squashed by now, if I even kept it in the first place.
hahaha. Yeah kinda weird that I still have it! I MUST have loved it
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It looks great, I can’t wait till my kids are old enough to do stuff like this.
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I don’t know if you saw this when you visited my blog but I love the idea behind these dioramas!
http://chick-it-out-crpl.blogspot.com/2009/04/peep-diorama.html