Let it never be said that I don't know good art supply stores.
Today, we began our time after the usual introductory activities by voting for which of the houses the students designed (homework) we wanted to go about making.
Once the vote was decided, we did "Der Letzte Tag" by Elis for our listening comprehension exercise, and then devoted the rest of our day to the creation of creative creations.
Before we went to making basic paper designs into actual structures, we viewed some pictures and some research to help us get on the right track. This is a great resource for information on what a 1st century German settlement looked like: http://www.funkenburg-westgreussen.de/
That's the Funkenburg Museum, a restored 1st century fort and open-air museum that sometimes also holds Renaissance festival-esque festivals. Field trip idea? We also looked at some online articles about Roman villas from different regions of Imperial Rome.
The boys made a teutonic fort complete with pike wall, guard towers, a blacksmith and a main stead building. The girls divided into two groups and made two very comfortable-looking villas complete with furnished rooms, gardens, utilities, and floaties in the volcanic hotspring baths. Did you know that hot glue actually *does* stick to modeling clay?
We will continue our regular rotation of activities and lessons now that this activity is complete. It was fun! And I got clay all over my shoes! And that was kind of funny.
I'm going to be in a wedding next week, so I will see you all in two weeks!
~Mit Vergnügen
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