wet on wet white board ;) and Michaelmas Lanterns !

Okay okay - so we don't actually do Michaelmas. But trying to teach the kids to say The Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae - well - its harder... so - Michaelmass covers it for now.
For TEN years I have been trying to get Michaelmas down. And this was the first year I actually did it! Every year I realize its already past - or I show up at a waldorf school and totally forget that we should have made lanterns or something! But yesterday at Church a fellow came up to me to show me an icon of Michael with his flaming sword - that he had stumble across as next sunday - it will be all about the Colossae thing. And he knows I am always looking for icons for my boy that appeal to his heroic side!  I was so stoked to realize - I have a chance to do the lanterns this year!!!!
So - yo - we did it!!! Yup!
Also - I think i am closer to making white board an artistic endeavor. I came up with the idea to take washable markers - and color the white board - and spritz rubbing alcohol across it. And after a few tries - the effect is pretty cool. It sort of carries and spreads across the board and then slowly settles into these lovely patterns - then you can use your dry erase markers on top of it. I think instead of doing one everyday - I will have it for the week - and just change the date at the top.
 So firstly - my white board progress.

Here it is with just the "wet on wet" effect.

This is with the story of the week (for five year old)  and daily seasonal project (for Michaelmas) as well as daily work. 

Daily work was the story of E and each day we will work on the short e sound and say the verse about E. Tilde is working on the 1st chapter of her silent reading and cursive is everyday.














So - secondly - the lanterns ( we will do our lantern walk after dark on friday - I will post about that on Monday)

Sooo - this project took me too long to figure out. Thank goodness my husband was home to care for the baby. But we basically made panels of tin foil for the inside and construction paper for the outside. We made a card stock base covered in tin foil with a make shift candle holder secured in the middle. between the panels we used wax paper and tissue. We fastened the panels together with glue and then covered the joints with packing tape. We used wire to hang them from our branches.

You can see inside where the window frame is tinfoil - and to our surprise - it (of course ) reflected the light of the small candle so brightly!

                                                          and the kid is happy! 

and taking it oh so seriously. 

 So huzzah! I did the thing!!! And we will know all our songs of Archangel Michael by friday for our lantern walk.
Smooth operation!