Sketch-It Sunday Read and Illustrate Much Ado About Nothing, Acts III-V Today we’ll read and illustrate the second half of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. [One could also watch or listen to the play and illustrate along.] Don’t forget to draw a “cover image” for your collection! I’ll post the finished illustrations as they become […]
Sketch-It Sunday Read and Illustrate Much Ado About Nothing, Acts I-III You didn’t think we’d go without reading and illustrating Shakespeare during Advent, did you? After 2012’s Winter’s Tale and 2013’s As You Like It, and March Break’s adapted Bearicles, you couldn’t possible have thought we’d go without? Of course, we’re back! And we’re in […]
It’s Sketch-It Sunday once again. Create Your Own Illustrations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Today, after reading aloud key scenes from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we’ll get out our best pens and paper and create original illustrations of our own.
Welcome to The Lunchbox Season’s Family Advent Calendar 2014! It’s the last day of November and the first day of Advent! So, for the sake of clarity, we’re calling this our Family Advent Calendar Day O! Today is the first of our Sketch-It Sundays. Each Sunday in Advent, we’ll be pulling off some inventive book illustration […]
Today, the kids illustrate the fifth and final instalment of our March breACK! 2014 masterpiece, our transformation of Shakespeare’s Pericles. Today, the kids will not only illustrate scenes from our Play of Bearicles, they will also design a book cover or a poster advertising the production of our play. Summary, The Play of Bearicles, Prince […]
Summary, The Play of Bearicles, Prince of Tyre Act IVThe Ghost of the Turtle-Poet Gower once again rises from the sea, informing us that fourteen years have passed since we saw our Bearicles or his wee cub Marina: On Tarsus, Marina has been raised in high style by Cleon and Dionyza. She’s the talk of […]
We’re almost half-way through March breACK! 2014! Today, the kids will continue to illustrate our Shakespeare’s Pericles, transformed: The Play of Bearicles, Prince of Tyre Summary: The Play of Bearicles, Prince of Tyre, Act III Gower, the Turtle-Ghost, rises from the sea once more to catalogue the further trials and tribulations of Bearicles: Several months […]
Today, I’ll encourage the kids to use a bit more colour in their illustrations of our Shakepeare work, transformed, The Play of Bearicles, Prince of Tyre. Summary: The Play of Bearicles, Prince of Tyre, Act II The ghost of the Turtle-Poet, Gower, lets us know that there are more adventures in store for our hero […]
Welcome to MARCH breACK! 2014! Each weekday in March BreACK!, the kids will read a segment of a book I have written and illustrate it! Today, we’re reading the first act of our Shakespeare play, transformed: Bearicles, Prince of Tyre. I’ll encourage the kids to use simple black ink pens on paper today. The […]
“Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird’s throat — Come hither, come hither, come hither!” Today, we’re reading and illustrating Act Two of As You Like It! This Act contains some of the most scintillating speeches in all of Shakespeare, so get […]
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind….” Last year’s Winter’s Tale Illustrate-Your-Own Book Project was so successful that we thought we should illustrate books during Advent once again, this time, with Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Illustrate-Your-Own Books? How does it work? Each Sunday in Advent, we will read one or two acts from Shakespeare’s As You Like […]
Ahma, The Spirit Bear, Part IV (Conclusion): A Berry Picking Party & What Follows, A Precis: Mr. Mansm’ hosts a berry-picking party on the extensive guardian-forest-grounds of Gyeksa-Yuup (Peaceful Earth) followed by a trip to a Amap’as (Good-Looking) Hill, for a view of the local salmon streams and a festive picnic. Things are clearly strained, […]
Today, we’re making Spirit Bear S’mores from scratch, with Honey Marhsmallows and Easy-to-make Honey Graham Cracker Cookie Cut-Outs. Since the dough is egg-free, the kids can snack on it as they cut out their cookies! We would have made our own bear-shaped chocolates, too, I suppose, but the kids have this tendency not to actually […]
Ahma, The Spirit Bear, Part III: In Which Harriet Hooltga Gyemk is Saved and Jane Ha-Liimi Tries Not to Be, A Precis: Hibernation season is over and the spring brings fresh faces to the village of Mayaa’ol, or Bear Berry. Miss Wax’l and her mother have word that their niece, Jane Ha-Liimi [Musical Instrument], is […]
Today’s High Tea? White Kermode Bear Paw Cookies …and for an After-Dinner Treat? White Grape Gummy Bear Popsicles [as featured on Treehouse TV]. makes 3-4 dozen cookies [as featured on Treehouse TV!]
It’s time for some Spirit Bear Math! Today, the kids are going to have some numbers practice. I’ve created a Spirit Bear Dice Game. They’ll roll a pair of dice and either add or multiply the numbers. If they get the answer right, they’ll place a candy (gummy bears, m&m’s, or chocolate chips) in the […]
“I swear, I have never heard any better sense from any bear under my guardianship. Mr. Yeni-Marten’s a very smart Kermode, industrious, too! He’s done quite a bit to protect our salmon and streams from the men at the fisheries and their lice-infested, farmed spawn. Not to mention his honey, which is a miracle, Ahma, […]
Ahma, the Spirit Bear, Part I: Old Married Bears & Unmarried Bears, A Precis Our story begins with a wedding. In the village of Maaya’ol (Bear-Berry), situated in a remote portion of the Great Bear Rainforest on The Princess Royal Island, the young Miss. Luup’is (To Sew or Tailor) becomes the bride of the widower-bear […]
