Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study, Superboy's projects on Aug 31st, 2006 12 Comments »
Here are some photos from week one of the 2006-2007 homeschool year. I know, it’s only thursday, but I couldn’t wait to share. This is the Caterpillar we found out in the pasture during our nature walk on monday. Very cool critter, we identified as the Spotted Apatelodes Moth ( Apatelodes torrefacta ). You can’t [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Superboy's projects on Aug 29th, 2006 13 Comments »
Thought I’d post a couple of pictures of the first pages of Superboy’s new notebook for his Sailing Unit. Since Superboy was so excited and enthusiastic about this sailing unit we decided to do this one a bit different from previous notebooks. We wanted it to be extra special so we bought an actual scrapbook [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Aug 28th, 2006 5 Comments »
Well, the results are in and our first day went pretty well! We got done about half of what I had planned, which is to be expected this early on in the game (and why I don’t plan too far in advance at this stage). The nice thing is that the things we DID get [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Aug 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
1st day of school is today! It’s a nautical adventure with our first unit of the year: Come Sail Away! And away we go!
Posted in Random Ramblings on Aug 26th, 2006 9 Comments »
Happy birthday to JBug! She is 5 years old today! JBug is our smart, funny, powerful, beautiful, confident, loving, determined and very, very dear to our hearts, wonderful, 5-year-old pirate Superman girl! Happy birthday, Snickerdoodle!
Posted in Random Ramblings on Aug 25th, 2006 4 Comments »
Conversation between myself (me) and Superboy (SB): Me: So, Pluto is no longer a planet. SB: What? Me: I was reading an article that says a bunch of scientists had a meeting and decided that Pluto is no longer a planet. Apparently it’s not big enough, or something. SB: So… what is it? Me: It’s [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on Aug 23rd, 2006 13 Comments »
I got busy yesterday and made some dressing frames for JBug and Squirt. I just couldn’t see paying the prices I’ve seen on the things, so I figured “How hard can it be?” Well, it was harder than I originally thought, but not not too bad. It would be easy-breezy for some of you craftier [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Aug 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Been to The Mall back-to-school clothes shopping for Modgirl today, so I barely have the strength to type right now. Here is my meager offering for today-links. Links to things other folks have written. Folks with obviously more creative juices flowing than I have at the moment. Enjoy! Superboy has (finally!) posted another chapter of [...]
Posted in nature study on Aug 20th, 2006 5 Comments »
JBug is a natural explorer, as many young children are. The other day she decided she wanted to get out our bug collection and look at them with a magnifying glass. So I pulled out some of the bigger, showier specimens we’ve collected over time and placed them on a mat for her to examine.(Some [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Aug 19th, 2006 11 Comments »
What ever happened to the three R’s? You know, reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic, the reasons every child was supposed to go to school? To hear some homeschool opponents you would think all that had changed. Apparently the main reasons why we should send our children to public schools (and not homeschool them) are now the [...]
