Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori, nature study, science on Jan 30th, 2008 14 Comments »
The focus of our science studies for the next few weeks will be mammals. So far it has been fun. We are reading books about mammals, watching DVD’s, and doing fun activities. Here are just a few: Our mammal library, a muskrat pelt from Alaska, and some mammals/not mammals sorting cards. A fur matching activity, [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, montessori on Jan 28th, 2008 6 Comments »
Today I presented to JBug adding with the golden beads. I have been meaning to do this with her for awhile now, but have been putting it off because it is such a large work, taking up two tables. And with the little guy around, I had to time it to when I thought we [...]
Posted in alaska on Jan 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
To the love of my life… [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/3J8q4cBSkTQ" width="425" height="350"/] Missing you tonight. As always. T
Posted in Random Ramblings on Jan 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
This is the first week that my de-cluttering progress has met with a bit of resistance. I think it is for 2 reasons. The first is that I am really hyper-focused on school this week. We are having lots of fun and getting tons done, and I am a bit of a one-track mind kind [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori, nature study, pre-school, Superboy's projects on Jan 21st, 2008 16 Comments »
Right, so posting frequency is down a bit, I know. But thats just because we’ve been so dadgum busy and productive around here. It’s as if a fire has been lit under us all! Even me! My decluttering is going gangbusters. I am keeping to my decluttering schedule (see sidebar) plus using this decluttering calendar. [...]
Posted in art, montessori on Jan 18th, 2008 11 Comments »
I put this post together for the kids craft-of-the-week club at 4Real learning, but I hope it will be of interest to anyone who likes to do crafts with kids. Today, we are making a spicy winter sachet! It’s a little evergreen and orange-spice pocket of sunshine to perk up those drab winter days! Here [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori, pre-school, Random Ramblings on Jan 16th, 2008 10 Comments »
I often get asked what a “typical day” is like here at LaPaz. And while some days I might answer that every day is different, and other days I may feel like every day is the same, the truth lies somewhere in between. Though we have no rigid schedule, we do have a sort of [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., geography, JBug, pre-school on Jan 13th, 2008 15 Comments »
I wanted to expand upon something I mentioned in an earlier post. While Superboy is researching routes across the USA, the littles have been busy working on a project of their own: mapmaking!And they are doing such good work and having so much fun that even though they are not done yet, I just had [...]
Posted in JBug, living math, montessori on Jan 10th, 2008 11 Comments »
That isn’t a phrase we tend to expect to hear coming out of our kids’ mouths. But this morning I heard it from JBug. Yesterday I presented the addition strips board and she took to it like a duck to water. After finishing up the “twos” fact card I started her on, she asked me [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Jan 9th, 2008 15 Comments »
I just love it when a plan comes together. Especially when it happens so naturally and beautifully! I had decided we all needed to start back in on our world geography studies and was looking for a direction. I was thinking that after reviewing the world map, we would do Africa next, but I needed [...]
