Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Superboy's projects on Sep 29th, 2006 5 Comments »
Superboy has been slowing down a bit on the notebooking of late because he is focusing in on his experiments, his boater safety certification course, his writing, and his first Karate tournament coming up this weekend. But he did produce this nice page this week. I really like the looks of it, as it is [...]
Posted in JBug, montessori on Sep 29th, 2006 4 Comments »
JBug and I are working on number recognition. I have to say it is slow going and a bit frustrating because it doesn’t seem to be “clicking” for her all that well. But we plug away in hopes that when the time is right, “her time”, all our practice will pay off. In the mean [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Sep 28th, 2006 7 Comments »
This morning as I was preparing breakfast for the children and myself, I was thinking about history and time. I was frying some bacon, making buscuits, and stirring gravy and I thought about all those women in the past who fried bacon, made biscuits, stirred gravy. An endless procession of bacon-frying. An unbroken history. Ancient [...]
Posted in nature study, Superboy's projects on Sep 26th, 2006 6 Comments »
Much of our nature study the past few weeks has been centered around trees, and today was no different. Because we happen to have a huge, beautiful Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) tree in full view of our front porch reading spot, we began by reading a chapter titled “Sycamore” from Joan Maloof’s book, Teaching the Trees: [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Sep 25th, 2006 2 Comments »
I don’t think so! Just so folks won’t think all we ever do is work, work, work… We also have alot of fun and share alot of love. Happy Tuesday from the Lapaz Farm gang!
Posted in Random Ramblings on Sep 23rd, 2006 2 Comments »
Dawn at By Sun and Candlelight is hosting the Early Autumn Edition of Field day on Sept. 27. Have your entries in by Sept 25! I know there are lots of you doing wonderful nature-study activities. Share the wealth and join in this field day!
Posted in Random Ramblings on Sep 20th, 2006 9 Comments »
Today was one of those days. One of those those days when you look out the window and your heart just melts and you can hardly catch your breath because the simple, utter beauty of your life hits you in the face and you realize that you are blessed beyond all measure. And you know [...]
Posted in JBug, montessori on Sep 20th, 2006 23 Comments »
I’ve been busy making some more materials for JBug. She has been very interested lately in caterpillars and frogs and how things grow. I had an idea to make a book with pictures of different life cycles, but I wanted it to be interactive. So I designed it with the life cycles on the left, [...]
Posted in JBug, montessori on Sep 19th, 2006 15 Comments »
For her birthday recently Jbug received a most beauiful gift. But let me go back a bit. Quite some time ago I had mentioned to my step-dad that I would love to have some wooden blocks for JBug. I said I would like them to be out of different kinds of natural wood, two blocks [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug on Sep 18th, 2006 5 Comments »
Ya know, I realize we can do all the practical life activities with our everyday dishes, but where is the fun in that? I wanted to have special things set aside for the sole purpose of JBug’s Montessori activities, but without paying outrageous catalog or department store prices. So I decided to go to a [...]
