For this unit study on trees and plants, we are going to stick pretty close to the Live-Education Waldorf curriculum for the Botany Main Lesson Block. The Waldorf curriculum is fairly complete with just a few suggested supplement books. You will need your main lesson book, some color pencils or another art medium and a pencil. We are going to extend this main lesson block into a unit study, adding more resources and games for various ages groups to meet the need to all my children. We will turn part of this time into a unit study on plants and trees filling our unit with picture books, board games, kits, gardening adventures and a lot of time outdoors enjoying the fair whether. We have begun to fill our nature journals (ones we made last year) with illustrations inspired by the game Into The Forest. We will also make use of a Charlotte Mason book Sharing Nature With Children to find innovative ways to enjoy nature with kids or adults.
We also added some books by Arabella Buckley. These books were written about 100 years ago and they are lively engaging story driven science books that are so different than the science texts you see today.
No unit would be complete without some kits, and we are finding the ones from Nature-Watch very educational and fun to use. We are using Forever Forest, Pine Tree Growing kit and Forest in a Box for this unit.
How to Use Living Books for a Waldorf Main Lesson Block
How does our Main Lesson block differ from a unit study? With a unit study, I’ll use a variety of books and projects and design my own curriculum. I’ll figure out which books to read when and assign literature to my student if possible. The main lesson book we create for a unit study doesn’t contain every lesson we do. For the Main Lesson block, we follow the Live-Education Waldorf curriculum fairly closely. We create lesson entries for the main lesson book with almost every lesson including a written narration or dictation. The lessons are delivered orally by the teacher, rather than read aloud. Supplement material is used for the teacher’s reference rather than as assigned reading for the student.
For our Botany Main Lesson block, I used a number of resources to supplement our lessons including: DK Tree, DK Plant, One Small Square: Backyard, The Practical Naturalist and my new favorite: The ABC’s of Nature by Reader’s Digest. So which ones are living books and why? See if you can tell from the video which one(s) I would consider Charlotte Mason inspired.
Chalk Drawing
To kick off our Waldorf Botany Main Lesson block and Plants and Trees unit study, I did a 4’x6′ chalk drawing of a forest scene that will remain in our homeschool room for the duration of this unit. I used a chalk drawing I did in 2010 as inspiration for this drawing. Originally I copied parts of this out of the Live-Education main lesson book for Botany while finding inspiration from other drawings.
Today’s drawing took 2.5 hours over the course of two days. It’s four feet by six feet and it’s on my mobile chalk board which was originally a slate chalkboard that I recently painted with Rustoleum chalkboard paint.
I try to do at least one chalk drawing for each unit.
Lesson 1: The Complete ‘Perfect’ Plant
Waldorf Botany Chalk Drawing | Lesson 1
The complete plant is the first lesson for the Live Education Waldorf Main Lesson block for Botany. This chalk drawing illustrated the plant with its root, stem, leaves, fruit/seed, and flower. This drawing was made using chalk pastels by Sargent Art found at fine art stores. Ours were purchased from Dick Blick. This drawing took about 30 minutes to do and will remain on the chalkboard for about a week or less. The botany main lesson is typically for grade 5 in a Waldorf school. My 10 year old 5th grader and 15 year old 9th grader will be doing these lessons. My 5th grader did his drawing on pastel paper using oil pastels. The accompanying page in his main lesson book includes a color pencil drawing with explanation of the lesson in the form of copywork. My 9th grader did his in his main lesson book using Lyra color pencils. His narration includes original work as well as copywork.
Inside a Waldorf Main Lesson | How We Homeschool | Lesson 1 Botany
We are working through our Live Education Waldorf Main Lesson block for Botany. Today I’ll show you how we do our lessons. We completed our first lesson: The complete plant. I drew it on the chalkboard using chalk pastels while my 10 year old son drew his using oil pastels on pastel paper. I decided to do the lesson again using drawing paper and color pencils so we could get more detail. I’m really glad we did and I’m please with the result. My son enjoyed this lesson and is very pleased with his work.
Today’s lesson is an extension of the our first lesson; however, our first lesson did not include any narration, so this lesson will include narration as well as labels for all the parts of the plant. The narration work for this lesson is copywork. He will be copying the few lines of information at the top of his paper.
We are using 70lb. 9″x12″ drawing paper from a local craft store. He used Koh-I-Noor colored pencils while I used Irojiten and Lyra colored pencils. I outlined my drawing with a Staedtler fineliner in .03 and .05 tip, while my son left his unlined.
A couple days later, I gave my son a blank piece of paper and asked him to recreate the lesson. It was a means to keep him busy while preparing for that day’s lesson, but it turned out to be a great way to review, plus he liked it! Now, I intend to do that again. Later we’ll take our drawings and narrations to an office supply store to have it bound, or we will bind it ourselves using this technique.
Lesson 2: Fungi and Mushrooms
How to Watercolor a Mushroom
When doing our Waldorf Botany Main Lesson Block recently, I missed buying a mushroom growing kit. I had previously purchased one when doing this unit the first time, several years ago, with my oldest son. Everytime I went to purchase homeschooling supplies, I kept forgetting to look up the vendor that sold the mushroom kit. One year went by, and then another another! I finally remembered and purchased two kits! Neither were the kit I originally bought, but each had its perks.
One kit is readily available from Target and Amazon, and it’s by Back to the Roots. They come in several varieties, are pretty small and fairly affordable. The one shown today, is by Gardeners.com and while it was considerably more expensive, my children and I enjoyed this kit much better.
Today’s project is based on mushrooms we picked from that kit. We grew them, collected spores, cooked and ate them, and finally watercolored them.
How to Grow Mushrooms
Growing mushrooms is watching nothing happen for weeks and then suddenly they emerge and grow overnight doubling in size in days. That’s what happened with our Mushroom Adventure Grow Edible Mushrooms kit from Gardeners. We bought this kit for our spring nature study, but really had intended to buy when we did our Botany Main Lesson Block to accompany the lesson on fungi.
It took about 4-6 weeks for both crops of mushrooms to grow and be harvested. We sauteed the first batch of mushrooms, made spore prints with a smaller mid crop and dried out the final crop of mushrooms to be used in future dishes.
Making spore prints turned out to be a really easy educational project that has creative potential. You want to harvest or use mature mushrooms. You may choose to remove the cap or keep it in place. We did both with varying results. To keep the spore prints from being scattered by air drafts, you can cover them with a cup.
We left our spore prints for two days and that was too much time. We could have removed the mushroom caps after two hours and moved the caps to another part of the paper to collect more. I find the finer prints to be more beautiful and easier to observe under a microscope.
Check out the haul video where we purchased this mushroom growing kit and other supplies for our main lesson blocks and unit studies.
Check out the rest of our Botany Main Lesson block lessons, activities and projects for more ideas on how you can bring this subject area to life.
Check out some of my food tutorials to find recipes we’ve used in our home and homeschool:
This kit was $45 and we purchased it from Gardners.com
DIY Mini Mushrooms
This project was more time consuming than I expected but it turned out fabulously in the end. I’m using Sculpey Ultra Light Oven Bake clay, acrylic paints and an assortment tools and materials I had on hand to form these mushrooms. Books used: The ABCs of Nature Nature Anatomy, Humongous Fungus, The Practical Naturalist, Fungarium, The Curious Nature Guide, and Curious Kids Nature Guide
Mounted on heavy weight watercolor paper Watercolors for the edge of display Copic markers for labeling Hot glue gun for assembling
Lesson 3: Algae and Seaweed
How We Homeschool | Waldorf Botany Lesson Algae
Curious how I teach our main lessons for our Waldorf Botany Main Lesson Block? It’s actually never the same each time. Sometimes we begin with the written portion, sometimes with the art portion, but more often, it begins with an oral narration on my part or a reading from a ‘living’ book (refer to Charlotte Mason for explanation on Living Books).
While working through lesson 4 of our Botany Main Lesson curriculum, I decided to add an extra art sample to our main lesson books. Today’s lesson is how we added a watercolor sample of seaweed to accompany the main lesson block. We chose to watercolor local varieties of seaweed for local significance as well as significance to the curriculum. We watercolored giant sea kelp as we live off the coast of California, and this is a variety we are both familiar with as well as see often when at the beach. I chose watercolors because seaweed grow in water, and I thought the ethereal look of watercolors would complement the ethereal look of seaweed under water.
This lesson is about algae with seaweed being a marine algae. We are now exploring plants that represent ‘part’ of the complete plant with seaweed being a ‘leaf’ plant with no true roots or flowers or fruit. Seaweed collapses if taken out of the water, yet they are similar to the tall trees in a forest as seaweed often provides a safe haven for other plants and sea animals. Though they have no true roots, they have a holdfast which keeps the seaweed attached to rocks but takes in no nutrients. Those are absorbed throughout the whole plant.
Lesson 4: Lichen
How we Homeschool | Waldorf Botany Main Lesson Lichen
We are really enjoying this main lesson block for Botany right now, but not all lessons are winners. Watch what happens when my 10-year-old doesn’t like the writing portion of this lesson. With his permission, I share the story which is hilarious in retrospect and actually was tremendously funny at the time, too. I had to keep from laughing when he handed me his rough draft. Granted, I was trying something new with this narration. Instead of the typical written narration, I attempted to have him write his passage as a story. He was having none of it. How do you write a story about lichen?! Well, as with these lessons that I’m doing with him on paper rather than on the chalkboard, I wrote a story about lichen. You can pause the video to read it. In the end, he wrote his as a typical narration which turned out just fine. And as I say in the video, not all lessons are winners, but in the end, I think this lesson turned out fine.
For this project we used Fabriano 90lb. watercolor paper available at Blick Art Supplies. Distress Ink pads in the following colors: Vintage Wood, Walnut Stain, Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive, Rusty Hinge, Pumice Stone, Shabby Shutters and Frayed Burlap.
Lesson 6: Mosses
How I Teach a Waldorf Homeschool Main Lesson | Botany Mosses
We continue our main lesson block for Botany using our Waldorf Live-Education curriculum for 5th grade. This lesson is on mosses, and today, you get a glimpse of how I teach my son. Lately, I’ve been making a sample drawing before doing our final drawing and narration, but I didn’t have time, so you’ll get to hear me deliberate with my 10-year-old on how the lesson should look. Working together, the lesson took shape and the final result is one we are both proud of. The Live-Education curriculum is a Waldorf curriculum that adheres very closely to the original philosophy. We’ve had the curriculum in our homeschool from the beginning, and we often turn to it for inspiration.
For this project we used Fabriano 90lb. watercolor paper available at Blick Art Supplies. Distress Ink pads in the following colors: Vintage Wood, Walnut Stain, Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive, Rusty Hinge, Pumice Stone, Shabby Shutters and Frayed Burlap.
Lesson 7: Horsetail
Lesson 8: Ferns
Lesson 9: Conifers
The Gesture of Conifers | Waldorf Botany
The lesson on pine cones and conifers is the first lesson for the second part of our Botany Main Lesson Block. This 6-8 week main lesson block was split into two smaller blocks with one occurring in the fall and the second one occurring in the spring. As it happened, the second part was not completed in the spring and rolled over into the fall. We are using similar books as before, with a couple fresh ones, but the main difference is that we are using chalk pastels for these illustrations rather than colored pencils. I have been enjoying the process of using chalk pastels because the color is vibrant and the illustrations take less time. They will take even less time if you omit the detail that I often add. Using chalk pastels you can easily achieve the ‘gesture’ of the image which is sufficient and easier for the student to copy.
Illustration inspiration for this lesson comes from Botanicum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis. Content for the lesson came from our Waldorf Live Education main lesson book for Botany grade 5 and a few books. We used the ABC’s of Nature by Reader’s Digest and A Walk in the Boreal Forest.
The picture books that would work with this lesson are Seeds and Trees by Brandon Walden, The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins, The Sequoia Lives On by Joanna Cooke, The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward, and Oak Leaf by John Sandford.
Waldorf Botany Lesson: Pinecones & Conifers
Illustration inspiration for this lesson comes from Botanicum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis. Content for the lesson came from our Waldorf Live Education main lesson book for Botany grade 5 and a few books. We used the ABC’s of Nature by Reader’s Digest and A Walk in the Boreal Forest. I pulled out a few picture books as well, but as my daughter is 13, and I have no younger children, we only reminisced about the times we used to read picture books then put them away.
The picture books that would work with this lesson are Seeds and Trees by Brandon Walden, The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins, The Sequoia Lives On by Joanna Cooke, The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward, and Oak Leaf by John Sandford.
How to Grow a Pine Tree from Seed
I can’t tell you how much we love the kits we got from Nature-Watch. The one I’m sharing to day is a classroom kit for 25 students called Forever Forests. In addition to providing content for a lesson, this kit comes with enough supplies to plant more than 25 pine trees from seed. It also comes with pine nuts for tasting and various pine cones for viewing. Watch the progress of our pine trees from seedling to sapling and beyond by following me on Instagram.
How to Make a Pine Needle Basket
For our Botany Main Lesson block, we studied conifers. As part of the lesson activities we decided to weave pine needle baskets. This is a great activity for a nature unit study or for an Indigenous People. It’s fairly simple, but does take some practice or skill. What I did was get the project started out for my 10-year-old son who continued making it until the end, when I finished it off. We made a small flat basket with a small lip. If you work with a larger bundle of pine needles, it was be faster and easier, especially for kids.
I would recommend using a blunt wide eyed needle for this project. You can find raffia online or in craft stores. Pine needles are free! But I recommend using the long pine needles. If you can’t find them in nature, you can buy them as a basket weaving kit from Acorn Naturalist. This project is ideal for kids 12 years and up, but with a little help, you can assist a child as young at eight years old.
Lesson 10: Bulbs and Lilies
Botany Lesson | Bulbs Garlic
Our lesson on bulbs and lilies began with an introduction on monocots and dicots. This brief overview of plant seedlings and the difference between the two quickly moved into the study of bulbous plants like flowers and onions. While remaining with 6-fold symmetry of flowering plants that are bulbs, we worked on a geometry lesson in which we drew an onion flower with six stamen to reinforce the concept that these flowers possess 6-fold symmetry until other florals. We departed from flowering bulbs like tulips and lilies to focus on onions and garlic as these were significant for our lesson in other ways.
We used the book Plants of the Qur’an as inspiration for this lesson, marveling at the beautiful watercolored illustrations as well as for content as this book offers the Qur’anic Ayat and Surah in which these plants are mentioned as well as other religious and botanical information.
For illustration inspiration, we used Botanicum for our lesson on garlic and onions. We used Sargent Art Square chalk pastels and General’s Pastel Chalk. We used a Matte Fixative to seal our work before doing the written portion of our lesson.
Botany Lesson | Bulbs Onion
We continue our lesson on Bulbs and Lilies with this lesson on onions. While this lesson was part of the the lesson garlic, we chose to split it up over two days as the illustrations took time and we were supplementing this lesson with some hands-on projects and religious content. While using the book Plants of the Qur’an, we came across the verse [2:61] in which the foods the people of Musa (as) used to eat in Egypt were mentioned (lentils, onions, cucumbers and herbs) when they complained that all they had in the desert was Manna and Salwa. We decided to prepare a meal that included those foods mentioned as part of the lesson.
For illustration inspiration, we used Botanicum for our lesson on garlic and onions. We used Sargent Art Square chalk pastels and General’s Pastel Chalk. We used a Matte Fixative to seal our work before doing the written portion of our lesson.
Lesson 11: Cereals & Grains
Crops and Cereal
This is one of my favorite lessons in the botany unit. Not only are the illustrations fairly easy and beautiful, but the content for this lesson is deeply spiritual and profound for me. While there are two strongly held opinions about the origin of man, one being evolutionary and the evolving of man as hunter/gatherer to farmer and rancher and the other being of creation with established roles in shepherding and farming to begin with, this lesson can either explore those two thoughts, or you may rest with the one that adheres to the beliefs of your family. While I do entertain the idea of the evolution of animals, I’m firm in my belief of creation, so this lesson is deeply spiritual knowing that these or similar grains were farmed from the dawn of humankind. It is a blessing that grains (grasses) can be resistant to things that would normally kill or damage other plants. It is a blessing that grains may be kept dried for many years to provide sustenance in times of drought or famine. It is a blessing that grains are packed with nutrients and energy that would otherwise have been used by the grain to form more pronounced flowers. It is a blessing that staple grains and grasses grow on every continent. This lesson is a great opportunity to explore a lesson on geography and prepare foods from other countries and start a garden with some of your own monocots.
Lesson 12: Monocots: Date Palm
Date Palm
In addition to learning about the grain monocots of the plant kingdom, we explored other monocots and their uses. While most are familiar with staple grains like corn, wheat and rice found in South America, Europe and Asia, other staple monocots like coconut, palm and bamboo are also popular and versatile. For this lesson, we focused on the date-palm and it’s botanical qualities as well as it’s reference in the Qur’an and Sunnah (the practices of the Prophet Muhammad (saw)). I love the opportunity to include a religious angle in our lessons, and this lesson was mainly inspired by the book Plants of the Quran which provided information about the date palm as well religious content for us to build our lesson. The content in written portion of this lesson is primarily religious as we talk about the various times date palms were mentioned or played a roll, but the oral lesson also included botanical information about date palms. When I delivered this lesson to my 13-year-old daughter, I remembered a hadith about how a Muslim is like a date palm, and wanted to include that in the lesson, so it went on the adjoining page which you may see in the next lesson on figs and flowering and fruiting trees.
Bonus Lesson: Edible Below Ground Plants
Underground Edible Plants
This lesson was interiorly inspired by the book Botanicum. I added this lesson in part because the illustrations in Botanicum were so breathtaking. The content for this lesson also came from the book Botanicum. We spent some time looking at the three different kinds of underground edibles: Rhizomes, Root Vegetables and Tubers. We also made extensive lists of various kinds of underground edibles so our lists were quite full and complete. We drew the white potato for the tuber, carrot for the root vegetable and ginger for the rhizome. I only learned after the lesson was complete that there was an entry in the book Plants of the Quran on ginger, and I could have added in a religious lesson as well.
Lesson 13: Broadleaf Trees
Deciduous Trees and Leaves
While following the Live Education Waldorf Botany curriculum, we completed the lesson on conifers and was about to start the next big section of lessons with a study of monocots and dicots when I decided to add a couple lessons on broadleaf trees. While it made sense in the moment to add this lesson here (between conifers and monocots), in retrospect, I can see if would have been better after the introduction of flowering plants/trees.
In these lessons we used the book Botanicum as content and illustration inspiration, especially the pages devoted to broadleaf trees and temperate forests. While we drew leaves and acorns of various trees, none were local, so I planned for another lesson on the Interior Live Oak which is broadleaf, but until most broadleaf trees, also evergreen.
This lesson is the content and illustration for half the lesson, as the following lesson showing three more varieties leaves is part of this lesson and was delivered together.
Broadleaf Evergreen Tree
Our lesson on deciduous trees and broadleaf trees continues as we explore the Japanese Maple and the Oregon Maple. We include the California Interior Live Oak as it is an evergreen broadleaf tree and local to us. This lesson was meant to be one lesson with our previous lesson on broadleaf trees and the Oak Tree, but this one topic (flowering trees) took up about 5 lessons. We used a limited amount of picture books for this lesson, but in the past, I would have added Acorn, The Giant Sequoia and Oak Leaf.
Evergreen Oak | California Interior Live Oak
After completing our lesson on conifers, I mistakenly thought the topic of broadleaf trees was omitted, but it was actually the last lesson in the Botany Main Lesson Block. I decided to add a lesson here (after conifers and before monocots), to show the difference in silhouettes of evergreen trees (especially the Redwood and Giant Sequoia which are native to California and the west coast) to that of the sycamore or oak tree. We chose the interior live oak as they are common where we live and we spent some time learning about this local tree, its history and the challenges it is facing with the urbanization of this area. We used a nature guide which explored flora and fauna of the area which we purchased from a nature center at a local estuary.
Lesson 14: Flowering Fruit Trees
Flowering Tree | Fig
In choosing our Flowering Fruit trees, we chose to cover fig and olive and we chose to add a religious element to this lesson using the book Plants of the Quran. The book Plants of the Quran shares botanical information as well as some religious aspects like where in the Quran the the fig is mentioned and if there are any hadiths related to the mentioned plant. The book also shares the Arabic and historical names for the plants as well the history of the cultivation of the plant.
For this lesson we include a portion of our date lesson as that lesson ended up taking up more than a page and as we are running out of pages for our botany main lesson book, we ended up sharing a page with the fig which meant we had little room for our illustration and our content. I included a paragraph about the fig wasp which I find fascinating, though not all fig varieties require the fig wasp for fertilization.
The hadith we included referring to ‘if there was a fruit that were to descend from heaven it would be the fig because it has no pit.’
Olive Tree
This is our final lesson in our botany Main lesson block. We are primarily using our Live Education Waldorf curriculum, but at the end of this main lesson block, the curriculum offers the opportunity to include lessons to the teacher’s choosing. For this last lesson, we used the book Plants of the Quran for illustration inspiration and for content for this lesson. The book Plants of the Quran includes historical aspects the olive tree as well as cultivation details. We also added the Quranic verse 35 from Surah Nur in which the olive is mentioned.
Hands-On Projects
DIY Mason Jar Herb Garden
Grow your own herb garden using supplies you probably already have around the house. This DIY indoor Mason Jar herb garden was easy to do and you can make one, too! All you need is a mason jar or similar jar. Wide neck is easier than a narrow neck. You also need sand, rocks, soil and seeds. We used basil for our herb garden, but you could use a variety of herb
Directions: Fill the jar with about an inch of sand, followed by 1-2 inches of rocks, topping it off with about 2 inches of soil. Sprinkle a few seeds on top, cover with soil and water your seeds a couple times a week. It did several weeks before the basil grew large enough for us to use a few leaves. We also put our jars outside for a couple weeks because our original location in our school room was north facing. Once the basil was big enough for us to use, we moved it back in the house and put it in the kitchen. It looks beautiful and it’s functional!
Supplies: jar, sand, rocks, soil , and seeds. Cost: Less than $1 per jar. Duration: set up: 15 minutes, project: 10 minutes, clean up: 10 minutes, sprout: 1 week, leaves: 3 weeks, big enough to use:6 weeks
How a Seed Grows | Root Observation
It’s a quintessential rite of passage to grow plants from seeds, and now you can watch the growth of the roots with this Root Observation kit from Nature-Watch. This is the classroom kit, though they sell them individually as well. This kit comes with supplies for 25 students, but I’m going to show you how you can use this classroom kit even if you are homeschooling. This kit comes with 25 clear root observation tubes (with lids), over 50 dwarf sunflower seeds, a bag of acrylamide crystals, glue and 25 cardboard plaques for your tubes. You can find this kit at Nature-Watch.
Resource and Curriculum Review
Homeschool Curriculum Review | Botany
It’s time to share my ‘Buy This, Not That’ list for our Botany main lesson block and Plants unit study. There were many resources that I expected to use, but we didn’t get to all of them, and sometimes we went off on educational tangents! Fun!!
Here are some of the videos I mentioned in the review: Botany main lesson block playlist, starting with how we put this unit together: You Are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin Understanding Waldorf by Jack Petrash and Common Sense Schooling by Roy Wilkinson is going to break it down pretty well.
We also got really into the book Math in the Garden. It became its own mini unit study. Here’s the playlist.
Botany Curriculum Review
This unit was mainly hands on, but we did refer to a number of books for content to build our unit, or for artistic inspiration or for project ideas. Some activities we got to, and others we just didn’t find the time or inspiration to do. But hey, by the end of the year (and really summer), it’s hard to push through academics when the weather is begging you to come outside and the pool is cool and refreshing and the beach is just beckoning you. So, while I wished we’d completed just a few more lessons, we did pretty good with this unit, especially with all the outside work that we did in the garden.
At this point, I’m going to punch holes in the lesson we did do and add them to the main lesson book we started last year. And when we get around to those last remaining lessons, well then, we can add those to this ‘family’ main lesson book at that point.
Waldorf Botany | Resources & Review
We’ve completed about half our Botany unit and these are the resources we’ve used thus far. Showing you the main lesson book I worked on alongside my daughter instead of working on the chalkboard. I did do one big chalk drawing with several lessons within it (showing a forest scene with images that work from fungus to conifers), but preferred to work on paper with my daughter.
Mashallah, this is absolutely stunning. I wish I could draw like this! but unfortunately I do NOT have one artistic bone in my body. except knitting and crochet, but my sons look at me as if I am crazy when I say pick up a needle. Sadly, this is where I have to pay for art lessons for my children. I try…I do, but i mostly can do stick figures. : ) Anyway, I wanted to say thank you for the wonderful resources. I started homeschooling two years ago, and I find myself struggling. I can never find the right curriculum and when I do it is way out of budget as I am paying for 3 children. So I try to piece together things that I like, but for some reason History is so hard to find that is not written in Christian view. Then I found your unit studies, this will be wonderful.
Salam Heather! I hope your homeschool journey is going well. I find that some of the best artwork for a lesson from homeschool parents who aren’t artistic is the best because is simple and easy for the student to copy rather than the more intricate drawings that artist make. I hope you give it a try!
Hi Hanna, which brand of chalk do you use?
Hi Gloria, I use Sargent Art Square Chalk Pastels.