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Cassius' finished mask for Romeo. I painted it, but Cassius did pick the colours.
done
Here is a stop motion of Cassius trying to get some rare earth magnets off the fridge – Buster Keaton style.
our ultimate tree fort design
We have a very rickety tree fort in our back yard that we we have dreams of rebuilding. Cassius was telling me his good ideas and Paris brought me a pen and paper and told me to draw it. So we all sat down and decided what we wanted together. This is a very rough design obviously. We know we want a drawbridge, trap door, two levels, zip line, a pulley lift, a ball run, a catapult & a sandbox.
We found some great books on the web and ordered them from the library.
treehouse books.com
Our first step to making masks is to make a base with plaster strips.
Here is a site with some good instructions
Our present bedtime story is Eragon by Christopher Paolini. It is a story of good verses evil. We are finding it a little slow, but are still enjoying it. We were excited to find out that Christopher was homeschooled. He started thinking about the plot of Eragon when he was ten and wrote the first draft when he fifteen!
