Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on Feb 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
The educational menu, that is!
Got this idea from Jennifer at St Therese Academy , plus I have also seen Dawn do this. I am going to write this post this morning of what I intend to have the kids do today. Then I will come back tonight and we will see just how much [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., geography, history, nature study on Feb 4th, 2007 17 Comments »
I have been meaning for awhile to get around to posting about how I plan school around here. I’d like to start with Superboy, since I have been writing alot about the littles lately.
If you saw my earlier post about our new learning stations, then you know how things are set up around here. Basically, [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study on Nov 12th, 2006 6 Comments »
I promised I would write a little review of our new microscope once we tried it out, for those interested.
Let me give you a little background first.
We already have an excellent binocular (dissecting) scope and a really nice 40X field scope, so what we needed was a good compound scope, powerful enough to look at [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on Nov 6th, 2006 6 Comments »
The biology project that I wrote about earlier is coming along fine. Here is a picture of the organizational scheme in progress.
I have red files for kingdoms, blue files for major phyla, and yellow certain classes which we will be covering more in depth. (When we get to plants, I imagine I will do the [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., nature study on Nov 3rd, 2006 19 Comments »
This could take awhile, so bear with me!
We are getting ready to start a systematic study of biology. I know this type of thing is usually reserved for high school, but I was talking to Modgirl lately and she was lamenting the fact that she couldn’t remember a thing she learned in her biology class [...]
