Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 31st, 2008 13 Comments »
In keeping with Superboy’s recent Poe theme, I whipped up this Halloween trick-or-treat bag for him today: It was quick and easy with a pre-made JoAnns (or Michaels?) tote bag, that fusible stick-on stuff, and some fabric scraps I had on hand. What took me the longest time was figuring out what exactly to put [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 30th, 2008 6 Comments »
We are continuing our human anatomy study, taking it slowly and enjoying it. We did another cut and paste activity from The Body Book on the sense of taste, and then did a little taste-mapping experiment: The 4 tiny cups have water with salt, lemon, sugar, and coffee/cocoa to represent the 4 major flavors of [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science on Oct 27th, 2008 12 Comments »
Among other things, we have begun a kid-requested study of human anatomy here at LaPaz. We are using The Body Book as a “spine” (LOL!) for this study, which is a very fun cut-and-paste sort of book, beefing it up with some library books and videos, and rounding it out with some hands-on extras. Here [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 25th, 2008 8 Comments »
The kids are not the only ones excited about the snow.
Posted in alaska on Oct 23rd, 2008 7 Comments »
is just NOT going to happen around here!LOL! But that doesn’t mean play cannot BE work, or vice versa. With several inches of fresh snow on the ground, the kiddos decided to go out and build themselves some snow caves: Working up a sweat in 10 degree weather! JBug go get some snow! Wall getting [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., language arts on Oct 22nd, 2008 5 Comments »
We are in a bit of a groove right now and I am pretty pleased about it. JBug is still working hard on the illustrations for her book. This is taking a lot longer than either of us anticipated because she is working so hard on them, taking her time, trying to make them extra [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 21st, 2008 11 Comments »
Thought I’d share with you all the poem that I have tacked up on the wall in front of my desk. It is one that I have loved for a long time and find myself returning to whenever I have doubts about what I am doing. I think it expresses fairly well my ideals about [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 16th, 2008 14 Comments »
Seriously, you guys are the best. You’ve made me feel better. Not that I was feeling too bad, but I do feel better now. I’m not sure what the problem was. Maybe something about waking up to 8 degrees outside and it’s only mid-October just threw me into a funk. I think I just needed [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 14th, 2008 18 Comments »
Honestly. What do you do when you feel like you should be doing more, but lack the motivation?
Posted in art on Oct 11th, 2008 11 Comments »
I made a cute Halloween trick-or-treat tote for JBug adapted from an idea I spotted at the long thread. My adaptation includes a slightly simpler design, and the fact that I used a pre-made canvas tote (~3 dollars at JoAnn) and just sewed the embellishments onto it. This made it easier in that I did [...]
