Posted in Random Ramblings on Apr 20th, 2006 4 Comments »
I was reading over at the new Carnival of Homeschooling and came across this post at Farmschool on Fibs. In case you, like me, are one of the apparently vanishingly few souls who were until today ignorant of what fibs are, I will try to explain. Fibs are short, 20 syllable poems with syllable counts [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Apr 19th, 2006 6 Comments »
So, as an unschooler, what do you do when ds pulls out the pricey “Build a Bridge” architecture kit, with nifty informational booklet, and wants to put it together? GREAT! you say. GO FOR IT! you say. (happily thinking “this unschooling stuff is great!”). But what does the unschooling mom do when ds wants to [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on Apr 17th, 2006 6 Comments »
As you may know, if you have been following my blog for awhile, I promised my self we would try out unschooling after Easter. Well, it is after Easter and I am going to hold myself to it. I figure trying it is the only way I will be able to answer all the questions [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Apr 15th, 2006 4 Comments »
Happy Easter From LapazFarm to you. This is, from left to right: Modgirl, JBug, Dh, Cityboy, and Superboy. I am missing, of course, because I am the one taking the picture! We were camping out this week at GSMNP. Back home now for my grandson’s baptism tomorrow, Easter Sunday. A joyous week all around. Hope [...]
Posted in nature study on Apr 11th, 2006 5 Comments »
Today is day 8 of our observations of our toad tadpoles. One evening last week Superboy spotted a bunch of eggs in our smaller spring-fed stream. They were tiny black dots encased in long spirals of clear jelly.Thinking they were frog eggs, we collected just a few them to study indoors. Once we got them [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on Apr 9th, 2006 2 Comments »
I posted earlier about a mystery involving my non-reading 4yo, JBug and her seeming ability to read color words. I decided to do a bit more investigating. I know JBug cannot sound out words yet. She just is not ready for that-believe me, I’ve tried. But she CAN recognize her name when she sees it [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study on Apr 7th, 2006 8 Comments »
If so, then sign me up! Today was such a georgeous day that after barn chores and a little gardening Superboy asked if he and JBug could go play in the stream. How could I resist-it’s 80 degrees and not a cloud in sight? So I finished up in the garden and then joined them [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Apr 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
As the time draws nearer for my UNSCHOOLING EXPERIMENT I find my self a teensy bit worried. Okay, plagued with doubt is probably more accurate. Is this a good idea? Have I gone completely nuts? Why would I change a good thing? How far should I go with this? Is it OK to require a [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Apr 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
I feel like I have been brought back from the dead! After 8 months of dial-up we are finally back on DSL. Yippee! Of course you know what this means…I’ll be posting more pictures because they won’t take a half hour each to load! So, here is one. I call it “a bird in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2006 4 Comments »
Superboy and i cannot figure out how she did it. Today I opened up a page for JBug to color. It had a picture of a bunch of crayons and beside it was the name of the color you are supposed to color each one. I told her the first one was yellow and she [...]
