Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 31st, 2009 7 Comments »
Inspired by my all-time favorite children’s book, the new movie, and all of the wonderful Wild Things crafts out there in bloggyland, I decided to try my hand at a couple of stuffies. Seeing as it was my first time making stuffies I decided to keep them ultra-simple. No arms, no legs, just a monster-ish [...]
Posted in JBug, living math on Oct 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
Those fractions never knew what hit them. You didn’t see a thing…
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science on Oct 26th, 2009 4 Comments »
It’s bone day at Lapaz, where we’ve pulled all the skeletons out of our closet for some Halloween fun! On the bony menu: First, a lively round of Skeletons in the Closet game, which is loads of fun. Then we’ll take a look at the Life Size Human X-Rays, which, since they are taped up [...]
Posted in montessori on Oct 25th, 2009 4 Comments »
Finally I have a chance to post another tray for Halloween. Nothing too original here, just a patterning exercise. I had a bunch of Halloween-themed erasers and I arranged them on my flatbed scanner in lines in various patterns (landscape orientation), leaving open space on one end. Then I simply printed them on cardstock and [...]
Posted in art on Oct 23rd, 2009 7 Comments »
Oh, what fun! Just to liven things up I issued a little art challenge to the kiddos the other day: Lets each paint a self portrait, following these few rules (made up from my very odd brain): make it two-sided (showing two emotions, two aspects of your character, two expressions, two whatever , just so [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., montessori on Oct 21st, 2009 9 Comments »
Sorry I have not had time to post about the Haloween stuff like I promised. We’ve been so busy here, with all of the usual, but mostly with Superboy’s project for marine Biology (more about that later).I honestly don’t know if I will get around to one big post about Halloween Montessori activities, probably just [...]
Posted in montessori, pre-school on Oct 16th, 2009 16 Comments »
Yes, I am the first to admit that Montessori unschooling is an odd combination. Just think of the Montessori shelves and trays as a kind of strewing and it kinda-sorta works. Whatever. It works for us. Anyway, I am putting out a bunch of Halloween-themed stuff for next week (post about that soon), so I [...]
Posted in art, JBug on Oct 16th, 2009 11 Comments »
Still in the mood for some fall color, JBug’s been doing some craft projects lately. (Note: I think of “art” projects and “craft” projects as very different things. Do you? Though I admit that I am not sure exactly how to define the difference and that there is certainly some overlap, especially in the younger [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Oct 14th, 2009 5 Comments »
Some folks just see the world clearer than the rest of us. Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Posted in art on Oct 9th, 2009 12 Comments »
The simple fact is that we get no fall color here. And I admit that I really, really miss the riotous color associated with the changing of the seasons in Alaska and North Carolina where we’ve lived before. It’s the downside of the endless summer we enjoy here. But I am trying to look on [...]
