Posted in Catholicism, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Random Ramblings on Feb 28th, 2007 7 Comments »
The past few days have been such a good days. The kind of days that you look back on and say “Dang!” (That’s southern for “My goodness, things are going swimmingly!”) Our Lenten focus on being the very best homeschool we can be is paying off. Big time! Pre-Lent, athough I felt like we got [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Random Ramblings on Feb 27th, 2007 4 Comments »
It’s a glorious thing, Lent. As we give up those things to which we have become attached, we find ourselves becoming better people, more willing to give up additional attachments, frailties, and faults. As we experience success in our sacrifices of fasting, praying, almsgiving, we take pleasure in the newfound knowledge that we are stronger [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., pre-school on Feb 25th, 2007 7 Comments »
I thought I’d share a couple of things we got for Squirt that we are getting alot of mileage from here: The first is this little crane set from Hero (got it at Tuesday Morning store). It has a little working crane with a magnet and you can move around some little metal-topped blocks, plus [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Feb 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Because everyone else is doing it, and because I was curious, here is my word cloud: Yep. That looks about right to me!
Posted in Catholicism, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Superboy's projects on Feb 23rd, 2007 5 Comments »
Ah, what a wonderful opportunity is Lent! A call to slow down, simplify, reflect…doesn’t our dear Church know her children and their needs so well? Superboy and I finally got around to brainstorming our Lenten activities. As I said in an earlier post, we were inspired by the video, Fishers of Men, to focus on [...]
Posted in montessori on Feb 22nd, 2007 5 Comments »
This week I decided to begin teaching the littlest ones (ages 1 and 3) to work on a mat, Montessori style. But before I began teaching, I needed to assess just exactly from what point we are starting. So I did a little trial run: I set them each up to work on a mat [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Random Ramblings on Feb 21st, 2007 3 Comments »
I wanted to make Lent special. I wanted THIS to finally be the season when we finally start really living the liturgical year, when our Faith and our homeschool finally intertwine the way I always hoped they would. But I have to admit, despite all the wonderful ideas floating around out there in blogland, and [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Random Ramblings on Feb 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Here at Lapaz Farm, like all good Catholics, we begin a season of fasting, prayer, and penance. But, taking our cue from today’s gospel (below) we will be brushing our hair, tidying our clothes, and putting our best foot forward for these 40 (or so) days. So, for the Lenten season as you visit Lapaz [...]
Posted in Catholicism on Feb 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
Since today is a sick day I thought I would take the opportunity to catch up on some stuff here I wanted to do. Nothing like waiting until the last minute for a lenten project! After spotting this wonderful idea at Waltzing Matilda I knew I had to steal it for myself make one of [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Feb 20th, 2007 8 Comments »
A nasty stomach virus, that’s what. I will spare you the details because, trust me, it isn’t pretty. It has hit me, dh, Modgirl, JackJack, and Superboy (he was hit hardest of all). So far JBug and Squirt have been spared, thank the Lord. Your prayers for a speedy recovery for us all are greatly [...]
