Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., language arts on Oct 15th, 2011 9 Comments »
And still on a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, When the road is a gypsy’s ribbon looping the purple moor, The highwayman comes riding– Riding–riding– The highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door. (That’s an excerpt from [...]
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 language arts, montessori on Jun 28th, 2009 10 Comments »
This has been a big project for me, but I finally got my home-made version of the Montessori grammar box materials done. Whew! I decided that rather than the traditional series of 8 individual boxes to present each of the parts of speech, I only really need the last box (or at least something similar [...]
Posted in language arts, montessori on Jun 25th, 2009 8 Comments »
Lately I have been thinking JBug is about ready to begin exploring some of the Montessori grammar materials. I can’t afford to purchase them ($$$), so I am making my own versions. I’ve been working on the grammar box materials and I am almost ready to share them, but in the mean time I want [...]
Posted in art, JBug, language arts, science on Jan 15th, 2009 17 Comments »
JBug’s drawing of Venus in soft pastel: Do I file this under art or science? Or language arts? And why bother making the distinction?
Posted in JBug, language arts on Nov 29th, 2008 20 Comments »
It was about a month in the making, but I finally present to you: The Little Old Man and the Animals A fairy tale written and illustrated by JBug Once upon a time, a little man was walking on the road. He was going to the market at the castle to sell a basket that [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., language arts on Oct 22nd, 2008 5 Comments »
We are in a bit of a groove right now and I am pretty pleased about it. JBug is still working hard on the illustrations for her book. This is taking a lot longer than either of us anticipated because she is working so hard on them, taking her time, trying to make them extra [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., language arts on Oct 8th, 2008 9 Comments »
Maybe it’s the weather. The snow or something. I don’t know what it is, but something is in the air here and I certainly hope it sticks around. Because it is causing a sudden flurry of writing activity! After a long writing slump, both Superboy and JBug are suddenly hard at work on new stories. [...]
Posted in language arts, Superboy's projects on May 13th, 2008 5 Comments »
Superboy wrote this review of the movie Iron Man and wanted me to post it here. So…here it is! Iron Man. Pretty much the coolest movie ever. Cooler than Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four 1&2, Ghost Rider, and X-men 1, 2, and 3, all put together. Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, a wild-mannered man who [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., language arts, Superboy's projects on Mar 29th, 2008 5 Comments »
I mentioned in my post on our new schedule that we are doing poetry. I thought I’d share the super-easy resource we are using. 30 Days of Poetry Who would have thought it could be so easy? Just pull up the site and do the next assignment. Superboy and I are doing them together and [...]
