Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study, Superboy's projects on May 16th, 2007 14 Comments »
Superboy’s moth study is going very well. Here is how he set up his moth “attraction contraption.” LOL!The black light worked like a charm and had attracted one bug within minutes! We already had her identified: it was a JBug! Here is our favorite find: Superboy already identified it as a Small-Eyed Sphinx. Truly gorgeous! [...]
Posted in montessori, nature study on May 14th, 2007 14 Comments »
Things are quite different around Lapaz Farm Home School with dh, Squirt, and JackJack (and their Mom) gone to Alaska. Much quieter. It has taken me awhile to adjust mentally, and we have spent the past week doing not much, sort of dragging along in a semi-dazed state of recovery. But now things are picking [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 13th, 2007 10 Comments »
Came home from mass to find a tiny friend had come inside to wish me a happy mother’s day: And when I say tiny, I mean tiny! You may not be able to see it very well, but this is a male ruby-throated hummingbird that had flown into the house while we were out. Modgirl [...]
Posted in nature study on May 12th, 2007 11 Comments »
Tomatosphere results: An utter cat-astrophe! Looks like intense competition for limited resources (the sunny windowsill) was just too much for those tomato plants. Natural selection at work!LOL!
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study on May 11th, 2007 13 Comments »
Finding this little beauty, a Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) on our curtains last night has inspired Superboy to take another look at moths. We did this fun activity in Florida, but are anxious to try it again here in NC, to see what different moths we can see. Here is a link to where [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., living math on May 10th, 2007 5 Comments »
Superboy made a new friend today. Thanks to Denise at Let’s Play Math he was introduced to a new friend: Euclid. The task was to solve the problem of trying to make square corners, using the methods of the ancient Egyptian Surveyors or “rope-stretchers.” Superboy constructed a right triangle using only a knotted string and [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
I blame this site. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT stumble upon this site at 10PM. Because you will NOT be able to drag your self kids away from it! There are enough fun, educational games there to keep you your kids busy well into the wee hours. So far we’ve tried: Place Value [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 8th, 2007 7 Comments »
Or just good plain fun??? The dollar store had a bunch of these 3D books with glasses so I grabbed up several. Eye-popping fun for the whole family!
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., geography, history, Superboy's projects on May 7th, 2007 4 Comments »
Superboy is continuing with his mini-unit on Japan. Today’s topic: Kanji You’ll never guess which one he chose to learn first. Wait…maybe you will! “Karate” of course! But it is a lot harder than it looks to get them looking right. After much practice he finally decided he had it down well enough to copy [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, montessori on May 7th, 2007 7 Comments »
JBug is really loving her new math beads. I made them out of clear pony beads and pipe cleaners and they seem to work very well with the teens and tens boards, and matching and counting games. Here is what we did with them today: We laid out some number tiles, 1-10 and then matched [...]
