High School Quiz Bowl Champs

While we were on retreat, Number Three and his SMF homeschool team won first place at the National High School Quiz Bowl Competition that took place at the University of Sioux Falls.

On to Chicago!

Congratulations to the whole team!

Young Picassos

Yesterday at Co-op we studied Picassos. I told to my students that one has to touch on Picasso when studying art, and the Christian Heritage Art program helped immensely!

After they watched the DVD they drew quick sketches from National Geographic magazines nature photography, and then cut the sketches into four pieces.

Their final oil pastel compositions brought those pieces together in a "Picasso style". We had, of course, some beautiful results. Unfortunately, I just have Jr. High photos.

Addendum: we talked in class about how beautiful some earlier Picasso work was. I did a little digging and found some *very* early and beautiful Picasso work, certainly not very well known! Enjoy!


First Communion. 1895/96. Oil on canvas. Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.

Portrait of the Artist's Mother. 1896. Pastel on Paper. Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.

Science and Charity. 1897. Oil on canvas. Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.

SMF Field Day Highlights

SMF kids had a great time during the 2nd Annual Field Day! I am posting some highlights....
Click on any of these pictures to see a much larger version.








We took 245 pictures, and if you want to see them I set up a web album for SMF Field Day 2007. Enjoy!

Our Homeschool Choir

Five of those great-sounding children are mine!

Thank you, Mrs. B. and Mrs. G., for another beautiful singing year at SMF Co-op Choir!

Great art at SMF Co-op today!

Creative juices were flowing today... at the "other" art classes!

SMF Photography Club member CBH (Number Two) helped me photograph some of them.




















Impressive Kindergarten art!

Check her SMF High School Journal for High School art submissions.

A new High School Online Journal

A place for publishing art and writings by the Saint Margaret Fellowship high school students.

Enjoy it here and check periodically, there is a lot more coming up! If you have loved the photos I have published here by A. T., don't miss it! Some of the SMF High School Monet projects will appear there as well.

Also, our own Number Two is publishing an interesting paper she wrote recently contrasting Shakespeare's King Lear with Akiro Kurosawa's film Ran.
Photo by A. T.

SMF Girls' Soccer 2006

A big thank you to Coach W.!

SMF Co-op Field Day 2006