fiction to go along with our art

The artist we are studying this term is Jan Vermeer (1632-1675). I found a fiction book to go along with our study of this painter. We are listening to it on audio and enjoying it immensely so far. The book is Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett.

One of the main characters is "into" the puzzles known as pentominoes. Scholastic who is the publisher has a great site where you can try your own hand at these. Just click on the name. You can play online and they even have printable ones. Josh was much more successful than I was as he was able to get to the hardest level. I got stuck on the middle level but we both had alot of fun with them.

The book is a mystery dealing with a Vermeer painting and in the book illustrations there are clues given. You can check out your solutions on the Scholastic site mentioned above.

I have also gotten some writing assignment ideas from the book such as in Chapter 2 when Ms.Hussey has the class debating whether writing is the most accurate way of communicating. Somehow I think Josh will agree with Calder lol.