Posted in Florida Keys, nature study on May 29th, 2009 8 Comments »
Look who decided to hide out under one of our kayaks today! Blue land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi) Now, lets be sure to make sure he is gone before we paddle off. We don’t need any stowaways, ok?
Posted in Florida Keys on May 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
It’s been a wild life lately. Swim We’ve been doing a lot of snorkeling, seeing some awesome tropical fish, sponges of every color, coral, etc, with a highlight being an anchor and some cannons from a Spanish wreck. So cool! JBug’s math reflects our fishy endeavors: What’s she fishin’ for with that magnet as a [...]
Posted in JBug, montessori on May 24th, 2009 10 Comments »
Last week JBug was using her flower cards to learn the names of some common garden flowers. And then referring to them to make her own little flower book: She does this kind of thing a lot. Do your kids do this? Make “little books” out of everything? And if so, then what do you [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 20th, 2009 4 Comments »
A solid victory for YUCK! Scrambled eggs with ketchup is, as I suspected, totally gross!LOL! You people crack me up! I never expected such a great response to such a silly question! We had so much fun checking in throughout the day to read the responses, and JBug had a great time tallying up the [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 18th, 2009 36 Comments »
Help us out with a little controversy we’ve got going on here: Ketchup (aka catsup) on scrambled eggs: A. utterly disgusting B. totally yummy You be the judge.
Posted in science on May 13th, 2009 6 Comments »
JBug’s exploits seem to have a bit of “direction” to them lately! For example: She is having fun with her hundred board in combination with arrows… moving a glass bead this way and that, from one number to another, with some nifty activities downloaded from Mathwire here. (She LOVES to do these and I can [...]
Posted in Florida Keys on May 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
Whew! I thought I’d pop in while I stop and catch my breath for a little while. The past few days have been a real whirlwind of activity (or should I say “whirlpool”, since most of it has involved water!LOL!). We’ve been busy, busy in a very good way, with tons of family and friends [...]
Posted in art on May 8th, 2009 17 Comments »
I have been thinking lately that I would like to start keeping an art journal. Last night I was looking through the interwebs for inspiration and I saw this nifty video: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/C4Nlz4XMxcs" width="425" height="350"/] What fun!!! I love playing with patterns and so I was instantly hooked!! I sat right down and made a [...]
Posted in Florida Keys on May 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
We took off wednesday to meet up with friends for a day of kayaking at Curry Hammock State Park. Beautiful day! Kayaking through the mangrove tunnels was great until the tide went out and we were left slogging through a few scant inches of water, muck, and sea grass for the last mile or so [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on May 5th, 2009 14 Comments »
My kids (like most kids I know) are interesting people. I find it fascinating to watch them and see what makes them tick. And I am so blessed to be their mother and privileged to get to spend so much time with them, to really get to know them well. Their strengths and weaknesses,their interests, [...]
