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 [...]
Posted in JBug, language arts, living math, montessori on Mar 20th, 2010 17 Comments »
I’ve had quite a few emails and such lately asking me about JBug and her Montessori work. Since I have been posting more about other things we’ve been up to lately, is Montessori still something we do? You bet it is!!! It’s just that we have had so many more interesting and photogenic things going [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, science on Feb 5th, 2010 6 Comments »
Still surrounded by boxes. Still sleeping in sleeping bags piled on the floor. Still moving furniture from over here to over there (and a little more to the left, please). Still asking on an hourly basis “Have you seen my (hairbrush, shoes, pencil, bread knife, this, that, the other thing)?” And yet, amongst the chaos, [...]
Posted in JBug, living math, montessori on Nov 2nd, 2009 15 Comments »
JBug was all over this activity last week. I dug into our Asia continent box and put together a tray to reinforce the concepts of place value and exchanging, which JBug still struggles with from time to time. The enameled dragon tray contains a small bowl of rice grains, a pair of chopsticks, some Chinese [...]
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 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 Florida Keys, JBug on Jun 18th, 2009 6 Comments »
Ok, maybe it’s not exactly joyful… But it certainly is noise!
Posted in art, JBug on Jun 15th, 2009 11 Comments »
Poor JBug. Superboy is gone for the rest of the summer and though we all miss him, I think she is suffering the most. After all, her number one person to pester companion has briefly escaped is taking some time away and left her with no one to annoy play with. So, in order to [...]
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 [...]
