Posted in Random Ramblings on Sep 29th, 2007 7 Comments »
Now why do you think the whole time I painted this picture of Squirrel Nutkin I was reminded of my friend Dawn? Is it her nuttiness, her clever wit, or is it just her frequent visitors that brought her to mind? Whatever the reason, if you have not visited her recently you should. There is [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science on Sep 27th, 2007 14 Comments »
Yesterday at Hogwart’s we studied the magical properties of dragons. One of our experiments involved applying an electrical charge to dragon down: Just touch the battery to the down and… [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/rA9b4etLenY" width="425" height="350"/]
Posted in JBug, Random Ramblings on Sep 25th, 2007 8 Comments »
“Oh, look, Mommy! Isn’t he Cuuuuuuuuuute!?!I would like to call him hippity-toady-froggie!”
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug on Sep 24th, 2007 7 Comments »
Today to coincide with our reading of Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester I made up a little sewing activity for JBug. Here is her basket, ready to go! In it were a couple of activities to teach her how to sew on a button. The first activity is laminated yellow cardstock “buttons” to sew [...]
Posted in JBug, montessori on Sep 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
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Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., Superboy's projects on Sep 22nd, 2007 8 Comments »
Superboy had fun creating his own version of the Monster Book of Monsters. Throw together a stationary box, a little paper mache, and some fur, and a bit of imagination and you get… And here is his first entry, the Hippogriff: This picture was actually a collaborative effort between Superboy and myself. He drew, I [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, living math, montessori on Sep 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Just so you don’t think we are ALL fun and games around here, a picture of JBug doing her math. Her task is to lay out all of her number cards from 1-9000 in order, and the correct quantity of beads. She pulls out the next card, adds it to the stack, and then adds [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, montessori on Sep 20th, 2007 5 Comments »
Here is a story I told JBug to introduce the bell exercises: All of the boy bells and the girl bells were going to a ball (place 3 or 4 pairs of white and brown bells on a table, mixed up). They wanted to dance, but would only dance with their true love (move the [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science, Superboy's projects on Sep 20th, 2007 5 Comments »
Today Superboy attempted the Instant Ocean Potion. This potion, according to the directions, creates a soothing sea-side vacation in small spaces (full directions can be found on the “Term at Hogwarts” page). He followed the directions well, but being a first year student, his magic must have been a little off. Here you can see [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug on Sep 19th, 2007 10 Comments »
The farmer who owns the field in front of our house decided to cut and bale hay today, so we chose to take our tea outside and watch the show. And who should decide to join us but little Peter Rabbit! Though he nearly left when he heard we were having chamomile tea, we convinced [...]
