Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug on Jul 12th, 2011 17 Comments »
Planning school for JBug is an exercise in perspective. As a parent it is sometimes hard for me to admit that my children have weaknesses. I mean, in my heart they are all perfect, right? But as JBug’s teacher…well…lets just say that those weaknesses make themselves all too obvious. She struggles to read, math is [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug on Nov 5th, 2010 9 Comments »
JBug’s latest famous artist was Henri Rousseau. What a lot of fun he is to study! We found a really great book about him at our library: JBug really enjoyed this one with it’s gorgeous, richly-colored pictures! (fyi there are a couple of pictures that you may want to avoid for more sensitive kids: a [...]
Posted in art, JBug on Sep 27th, 2010 11 Comments »
Last week’s art project was great fun for JBug. Our artist was Michelangelo so we spent some time looking at gorgeous images of his sculpture and paintings, most especially the amazing Sistine Chapel. (really cool virtual tour here) JBug was in awe to learn that he spent 4 years mostly on his back, painting the [...]
Posted in art, JBug on Sep 14th, 2010 5 Comments »
I’m pretty pleased with how our art appreciation is going this year. I wrote about my art plans for JBug for the year in a previous post, and for the most part we are following them closely. We spend two weeks per artist. The first week is spent getting to know an artist and a [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, science on Sep 6th, 2010 7 Comments »
For science, JBug is using a really nifty book : Science Smart: Cool Projects for Exploring The Marvels of the Planet Earth As the title implies, it is chock full of some pretty cool projects, and it is forming the basis of JBug’s science studies this year. The projects range from ultra-simple to more complex, [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., high school, JBug on Aug 21st, 2010 12 Comments »
I posted last about Superboy’s Charlotte Mason-inspired schedule because , as I pointed out, there just isn’t much out there about CM at the high school level and I want to encourage sharing about that if I can. And though there is a LOT more available about CM at the elementary level, I thought I’d [...]
Posted in history, JBug on Aug 10th, 2010 9 Comments »
I had written in an earlier post my plans for history for JBug. Part of that is listening to the audio version of Gombrich’s Little History of the World, and making a mini-poster for each chapter. These posters will then be hung on a line along the top of the wall, timeline style. Well, the [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., history, JBug on Jul 1st, 2010 11 Comments »
I was planning history for Superboy, who will be doing a year of Greeks and Romans( the subject of another post) and originally thought I’d do ancients with JBug too, thinking it would be easiest and most logical to keep them in the same era. But, every time I talk history with JBug she says [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, nature study on Jun 28th, 2010 6 Comments »
So, here are all the details of my plans for JBug’s nature study for next year (she will also be doing earth science, but that is another subject). We will be doing it Charlotte Mason style, outdoors with our nature journals and field guides whenever possible, but I have planned a full plate of fabulous [...]
Posted in alaska, Catholicism, JBug, nature study on May 14th, 2010 13 Comments »
Just a brief note to let everyone know I am still alive and kickin’! Just been incredibly busy and absorbed in real life. It happens, you know. The weather has been getting better and better and we’ve been spending a lot of time outdoors. Enjoying the interesting spring wildflowers… This is Western skunk cabbage (Lysichiton [...]
