Happy Halloween!
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 31st, 2006 10 Comments »
Hope yours is a good one!
Archive for October, 2006
quick and easy cornmeal recipe
Posted in montessori on Oct 29th, 2006 3 Comments »
Here is a recipe to try on a rainy day when your kindergartener complains that there is nothing to do. It is quick and easy and fun to do! Ingredients: 1 cup of cornmeal 1 silver tray 1 set ABC flashcards 1 bored 5 year old Pour cornmeal onto tray. Place ABC cards beside tray. [...]
Wrapping it up
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, nature study, Superboy's projects on Oct 27th, 2006 6 Comments »
Today we wrapped upm the sailing unit. It sure has been alot of fun but we are ready to move on. This week was spent mainly on two things. First of all was getting that boater safety certification. Once that was done we could focus on our read-aloud which was Pagoo by Holling C. Holling. [...]
Almost there
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 26th, 2006 No Comments »
I have been a bad blogger lately, I know. So sporadic! It’s not that we aren’t DOING anything. Really! It’s just that everything we are doing is sort of “in process” right now, so I don’t have alot to say. I promise, though, that soon we will be done and I will have some good [...]
HE PASSED!!!!
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Superboy's projects on Oct 25th, 2006 11 Comments »
We are so excited! Superboy just finished his boater safety certification test and the results: You answered 73 of the 75 questions correctly for a score of 97%. Congratulations! You have passed the North Carolina Certification Exam. You should receive your course certificate, approved by North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, by mail within 5-7 [...]
Just in case you were wondering
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
Superboy took his Boater safety certification practice test again today and got a 96! I was going to let him take the actual test today, but we were running late and ran out of time before he had to go to Karate. So he goes for it tomorrow. We were running late because we were [...]
10 random facts Meme
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 24th, 2006 14 Comments »
Since I have finally been tagged (twice, actually, by Jennifer and Doris), here goes my version… 1. I have been published twice in scientific journals for articles about spiders. This was in a former life when I used to actually “do” science. Now I just teach it to my children, which I find entirely more [...]
A day in the life
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 23rd, 2006 7 Comments »
Today was our first day back at school after three weeks of off and on vacation. It was good to get back into a groove again. In fact, this weekend when I asked the kids about school, they both said they want to spend MORE time on school each day! Started off by reviewing math [...]
meaningful work
Posted in JBug, Random Ramblings on Oct 20th, 2006 10 Comments »
There has been some interesting discussion (as usual) on the 4reallearning boards about the benefits of allowing children the opportunity for meaningful work. With older children like Superboy it is easy. He is my number one choreboy and is capable of doing just about anything I can do-and often more. But how do we include [...]
On goals, dreams, and lack of vision
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 19th, 2006 10 Comments »
I have been thinking alot about our homeschool lately (I know…what else is new, right?) and how we “do things” around here, for Superboy in particular. It seems that every time I write about how we do things, I end up later eating my words because we change how we do things so often. I [...]
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