Old Testament Stories - Questions

[purplemountainmom]

Donna,
I like the format for the Old Testament Stories and Instructions very much. Your carefully chosen words for the stories are a wonderful match for our family! Thank you.
I do have a couple of questions:
Could I supplement the block with Jakob Striet? I know you suggested that if we related to it to use it, but I would like to use both!
A six week block - in your designing it this way, is there anything lost in splitting it up if it looks like we need to?
We are beginning this week with the Days of Creation! It is good!
Thanks again,
Anne

[Donna]

Dear Anne,

Well, one possibility is that you leave Jacob Streit for next year and work with his book with subsequent stories. It would be overkill to read two versions of the same stories and your child is too young for comparative literature! :) I think that the stories following on from the arrival at the Promised Land are better for fourth graders anyway (and will probably include at least some in the story collection inthe fourth grade curriculum) and if Streit is for you, then go for it!

I see no reason to not break up the block into two main lessons - I'd just be careful where so that your child gets a strong sense of continuity between the Patriarchs, for instance.

[elizamars]

I know this is dumb because I can probably just wing it, but I'm asking in case anyone besides me is confused. We are starting on the 7 days of creation today and the blue called for is Phthalo blue, is that the same as Prussian blue? I have the Stockmar paint set with 12 colors so I assumed (incorrectly?) that I had all the colors I would need. The blues I have are Ultramarine, Prussian, Indigo, and Blue green.

I can already tell we're going to have fun painting this week!

Thanks Donna.

Lisa

[holistic_mama]

Phthalo blue, is that the same as Prussian blue?

Nope...they're different. Interestingly, I just attended a painting workshop back in Sept with a retired W-teacher who told a little story about Prussian blue being a relatively 'new' color that became popular at the turn of the century. She offered that it is appropriate to that time (Industrial Revolution) as it is very 'steely'; and she said that while we as adults love this color, that we should be careful using it with children.

I do not have enough experience to have my own opinions on the matter; so I have to rely on passing along the opinions of others! :D

Peace,

Kimberly~in TX

[Donna]

Lisa,

You can phone Paper,Scissors, Stone - I use their paints and they might have a slightly different way of naming them than others do.... Annette who is the owner (and is an artist) will know what the translations are! 1-888-644-5843

Having said that, the best thing is for you to experiment with the colors and find which blue works best for you according to the effect you are trying to get!

Happy painting!

[purplemountainmom]

Dear Donna,
That does seem like overkill, doesn't it, to do both! I do like And There Was Light and it would be good for dd at some point...
We'll start tomorrow with our painting and we're both looking forward to it!
Thanks so much,
Anne

[purplemountainmom]

Lisa,
That wasn't such a "dumb" question, as I went round and round with that one, myself!
I couldn't figure out where the names came from (I have that same package you have), so thanks for asking....
Anne

[Lauri B]

I know this is dumb because I can probably just wing it, but I'm asking in case anyone besides me is confused. We are starting on the 7 days of creation today and the blue called for is Phthalo blue, is that the same as Prussian blue? I have the Stockmar paint set with 12 colors so I assumed (incorrectly?) that I had all the colors I would need. The blues I have are Ultramarine, Prussian, Indigo, and Blue green.

I can already tell we're going to have fun painting this week!

Thanks Donna.

Lisa

I don't want to be argumentative ;) but I think Prussian is a fine substitute for Pthalo Blue. Atelier has a chart here (http://www.chromaonline.com/chroma/content/download/139/512/file/interactive_colour_chart_spec.pdf) if you want to see what you think. They share a bit about Pthalo/Prussian HERE (http://www.paintmaking.com/blue.htm) saying, " Discovered in 1935 Pthalo Blue soon replaced the less reliable Prussian Blue. Until this time organic colors were not counted among the most light fast colors. Pthalo Blue however can be used by the paint maker with confidence." I have a small collection of watercolor paints consisting of a warm and a cool blue, a warm and a cool yellow, a warm and a cool red, plus a true green and a true purple. They've served us very well and I'm planning to use my existing set to paint the days of creation with Gracie next week. I don't think it always needs to be "perfect". :)

[holistic_mama]

IThey share a bit about Pthalo/Prussian HERE (http://www.paintmaking.com/blue.htm) saying, " Discovered in 1935 Pthalo Blue soon replaced the less reliable Prussian Blue. Until this time organic colors were not counted among the most light fast colors. Pthalo Blue however can be used by the paint maker with confidence." :)

That is SO cool! A bit more of the historical picture than what I retained from my workshop!

Thanks for sharing!

Kimberly~in TX

[Donna]

I know that there are a whole batch of you out there doing your Creation stories and painting this week and next.... it'd be lovely if you shared how that is going for you - wet on wet painting is such a challenge for so many people. Perhaps we could start a thread on the first through third grade sub forum sharing about how the Old Testament main lesson painting is?