Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 31st, 2006 7 Comments »
Here at Lapaz Farm, we have always suspected Faerie activity. After all, we are in the middle of the Appalachian mountains, whose ancient slopes are well known to be magical! And the recent pranks in our garden (with broccoli plants being changed into cabbages) confirmed our suspicions. So this week we set about finding and [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 31st, 2006 4 Comments »
Let me just preface this by saying that I do not for a second consider my blog to be on the same plane as many of the blogs I visit. I could never measure up to the blogging talents of Danielle Bean, Karen Edmisten, Melissa Wiley, or the many other talented bloggers out there. But [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 30th, 2006 7 Comments »
Want to finish the school year with something fun and lighthearted? Follow us on the fairy trail as we explore all things magical and fanciful here at Lapaz Farm! The final two weeks of the school year are Spiderwick and Flower Faerie weeks and we have alot of fun planned, as usual. We are just [...]
Posted in garden on May 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
For those of you interested, I finally updated my garden blog after a little haitus (Ok, after a major slacking off period). Check out the surprise I got while surveying my garden today at Digging In.
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Superboy's projects on May 25th, 2006 4 Comments »
These past two days have been alot of fun (umm… I think I say that alot! LOL!) with our focus on Robin Hood. We are reading the book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle and meanwhile watching the movie. Did I say movie? I meant MOVIES!!! We’ve seen the Errol Flynn version, [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Superboy's projects on May 22nd, 2006 7 Comments »
Random history this week is a continuation of last week’s medieval theme-we were obviously having too much fun to let it go! This week we are reading aloud “The Legend of King Arthur” and taking a look at Illuminated manuscripts with this site:Getty Museum This inspired us to do our own illumination, and what better [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 21st, 2006 3 Comments »
This is so hilarious. For those of you, like me, who shudder to think of the dance crazes that have come and gone in this country, you have GOT to check out this video. It is fall-outta-the-chair funny.
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
OK, everyone else is doing it, (though I first saw it at Alice’s Cottage Blessings) so of course, I had to jump in and take the Mothering Styles quiz, too! I actually think it describes me pretty well. Your type is: intp —The “Love of Learning” Mother “I keep the encyclopedia in the kitchen so [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study on May 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
As I described in an earlier post, last week was fungus week here at Lapaz Farm. We had a great time on our fungus hike and drew alot of the wonderful fungus we found. I had said that we would post some pictures of the spore prints we made, so finally here they are. We [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 19th, 2006 3 Comments »
Random history for this week is medieval times. Since we only do a topic for a week, and there is SO MUCH to do in medieval times, we just touched on a few high interest topics. For Monday we read through the DK Eyewitness book:Knight, which Superboy had gotten for Christmas. It is wonderful, as [...]
