Wednesday, March 5, 2008

STOLEN!

Imagine our excitement when Monday morning we read the headlines of the huge art heist in Switzerland! The four paintings stolen at gunpoint were by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet and were worth over $163 million!!! We looked up pictures of them online. One of them we had already looked at in our Impressionism lesson on Friday. We sure do hope they catch those bad guys before those paintings are sold on the black market or damaged!

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But things really got out of hand when we finished our week on J is for Jewels and saw an article about a jewel heist! We are afraid to study anything else of value, for fear that there is some connection between our studies and the thefts. Could Ardara and Huyler be high-profile cat-burglars on the sly?????

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