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 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 living math, montessori, Random Ramblings on Sep 15th, 2009 4 Comments »
It’s good to have powerful friends… because sometimes a girl just needs a little help with her math, you know?
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, living math, science on May 3rd, 2009 8 Comments »
The mice will play! Superboy was off with his scout troop the other day, so JBug and I were busy, busy, busy following her interests. It all began with a simple question ( prompted by a veggie tales song). “Mommy, why do I have a belly button?” (Hmmm. Have we not discussed this yet? Amazing [...]
Posted in JBug, living math on Apr 5th, 2009 7 Comments »
Just in time for Easter! Here is a fun way to get in the bunny mood, do some math, and get some of the wiggles out. Draw the numbers 1-10 in a straight line on your sidewalk, driveway, whatever. Ask your child to hop like a bunny from one number to the next to find [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., living math, montessori on Nov 11th, 2008 19 Comments »
I promised I’d post some more ideas today, so here are a few. I am running a little behind (we have been busy with all this fun stuff!!!) but I’ll have the rest up tomorrow, hopefully. These are pretty simple today. Just a few ideas I gathered from things I’ve seen around the internets: This [...]
Posted in living math on May 30th, 2008 25 Comments »
I have been spending some time thinking about teaching math. I’ve also been spending time reading other folks’ thoughts about teaching math. So much debate and deliberation about various curricula, scope and sequences, methods, problem solving, drill, etc, etc, etc… I’ve come to one conclusion: How hard can it be, really??? Now, I don’t mean [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., living math on Apr 5th, 2008 12 Comments »
Along with a lot of other folks, I’ve been doing a good bit of thinking about math lately. Let me explain why: When I pulled Superboy out of school in mid-4th grade, he hated math. Hated it. I made it one of my topmost priorities to re-instill the love of math that he had as [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., JBug, living math, montessori on Mar 4th, 2008 13 Comments »
This was quite a week for JBug! All in the same week (or so) she… got her first loose tooth learned to snap her fingers learned to whistle learned to do her laundry all by herself learned to pour hot tea from the teapot learned to subtract! Now, except for the loose tooth and the [...]
