Posted in JBug, montessori, pre-school on Mar 19th, 2007 12 Comments »
Ok, so I REALLY wanted one of those boxes for writing letters in sand. The nice large ones with a lid so that I could store it without always having to be pouring sand back and forth into a container. But NO WAY was I going to pay, like 35 bucks for one. So when [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study on Mar 16th, 2007 9 Comments »
Hooray! Thursday was a rainy day! Why hooray, you ask? Well, we needed a rainy day so that Superboy could go at night with our friend Joe, the herpetologist from the university, on a frog call hunt! Superboy was fortunate enough to be able to give our local herpetologist a flashlight tour of our property [...]
Posted in pre-school on Mar 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
Here are a few more things we’ve been doing to keep the littles productively occupied: Washing potatos for dinner: Box of tongue depressors (popsicle sticks or wooden spoons would work, too): I made some simple shapes from Magnetix and asked Squirt to try and make the same shape: He struggled a bit with it so [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on Mar 15th, 2007 21 Comments »
Well, I have been busily gathering and working on materials to begin Catechesis of the Good Shepherd presentations. For those who do not know, CGS is a Catholic catechism method based on Montesssori “hands-on” principles. I will begin using Moira Farrel’s wonderful albums as a basis for JBug’s and Squirt’s catechesis this year. Dh was [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study, Superboy's projects on Mar 15th, 2007 8 Comments »
For Pi day I decided to give Superboy an engineering challenge. I handed him a card that read: Design and build a device that will measure the rate of flow of our creek. Here is his design work, plus the calculations he made at the end: Here is his device: He rode his bike down [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Mar 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
I am a Foxglove What Flower Are You? Hat tip: Dawn Not alot of time this a.m. Got up late as dh and I were out very late last night after having gone to see Garrison Kiellor live. What a wonderful show! Anyway, off to start school and celebrate Pi Day! I will post later. [...]
Posted in JBug, montessori, nature study, pre-school on Mar 12th, 2007 16 Comments »
Today while Superboy was out digging his fire pit to bake his bricks, I had some time to work with the littles. Here are some of the things we did to stay happy, busy, and learning. We put up a new bird feeder and the kids are fascinated. So I set up a simple matching [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Random Ramblings on Mar 11th, 2007 9 Comments »
I’ve come across a few resources I’d like to share, just in case anyone else can use them: Tomatosphere: Thanks to a tip at Leonie’s blog, we’ve enrolled in the Tomatosphere project. This is a project where you receive two sets of tomato seeds, one of which has been treated with conditions simulating a space [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., history on Mar 11th, 2007 8 Comments »
We had a little extra energy around here friday, so we decided to put it to good use! Put a little bit of heavy whipping cream in a jar, add a couple of clean marbles to speed the process along… Shake it with all of the enthusiasm and energy three children can provide… And in [...]
Posted in JBug, nature study, Superboy's projects on Mar 9th, 2007 17 Comments »
This week we did a stream mapping project. We went down to our section of the creek and sketched it’s shape and then filled in all of it’s features. This took a couple of days. Then we inked the drawings. Then we sat on the porch and gave our watercolor pencils a try. I think [...]
