Posted in Random Ramblings on May 17th, 2008 4 Comments »
Now that Superboy has had his chance at a movie review on this blog, I thought I’d give it a shot as well. Mine, however, will not be nearly so in-depth as his. And no, it won’t be about Prince Caspian, which I am sure is as fantastic as everyone says, but I have not [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 16th, 2008 7 Comments »
Are we wrapping it up or are we going strong??? And when you are unschooling just exactly how do you tell???LOL! Some aspects of what we are doing feel like we are wrapping things up for the year. Schoolish materials are being packed away in preparation for the move, my focus has turned forward in [...]
Posted in language arts, Superboy's projects on May 13th, 2008 5 Comments »
Superboy wrote this review of the movie Iron Man and wanted me to post it here. So…here it is! Iron Man. Pretty much the coolest movie ever. Cooler than Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four 1&2, Ghost Rider, and X-men 1, 2, and 3, all put together. Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, a wild-mannered man who [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 13th, 2008 20 Comments »
And check out my new look! Superboy says it looks “earthy.” Let me know what you think!
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori, pre-school on May 12th, 2008 13 Comments »
A commenter asked me if, since we are now unschooling, I would be giving up the Montessori stuff. My answer is that no, I will still be using Montessori materials and methods with JBug and the littles, for two reasons. First, in short, it is working! Second (and the longer answer) is that I feel [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
Is this not the stereotypical view of a teenage boy? and his reading material?
Posted in alaska, cross-coutry trip, Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 8th, 2008 6 Comments »
Good day today. Superboy did only one page of math today. He just wasn’t feeling “mathy” and that’s ok by me. I have those days myself!LOL! He did spend the day productively with other things. He read a couple of chapters of Life of Pi (surprisingly NOT reading comics) and then worked on his superhero [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
Today was errand day., so not a lot of school went on. Superboy did 3 pages of math. Then we took off on errands. Bank, gas, bike shop to drop off Superboy’s bike for repairs, then the library. After I paid off all our late fees made my monthly library donation we got about 50 [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 6th, 2008 6 Comments »
Math again, 2 pages of Keys to Algebra. He has decided he will go ahead and finish up this series of workbooks before we decide to re-evaluate math materials. I think that is very sensible of him. It also gives me time to dig up more resources that he might want to try out later. [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on May 6th, 2008 7 Comments »
Just for kicks, I am going to try to keep a log of what Superboy does for one week that might be considered educational. Or maybe not. Either way it should be interesting, if only to me. My prediction is that he will start out slowly, and then gradually get busier as the week progresses. [...]
