Posted in Links and Blog Friends on Jun 29th, 2007 1 Comment »
I just caught on to this site that several others are talking about, where you can check the “parental guidance” rating of your blog. If you want, you can post your rating right there on your blog! How wonderful would that be? (Sarcasm here folks).
I’m rated G, although they did note that I’ve mentioned the […]
Posted in J.'s Homeschooling on Jun 29th, 2007 1 Comment »
My sister is about to go into 8th grade. This is the last year before we need to start keeping portfolios and transcripts, and she really wanted to get caught up this year. I don’t think she can catch up next year, especially not at the pace she is currently going (but it is summer, […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Jun 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about math recently. It’s always been my “weakness”, although I am actually competent with it. My brother is one of those people who were born just “seeing” numbers and he is intuitively brilliant with mathematics. I felt stupid working with him, and we were at the same math level even […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’m so happy that Andrea got the custom header thing fixed! I like being able to change my header, so that it reflects what’s been going on in our lives recently, as well as the season. I had a nice picture of Carbon on his bike up earlier today, but he saw it and didn’t […]
Posted in Books on Jun 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Beachcombing by Jim Arnosky. The illustrations are like a glimpse into Arnosky’s nature journal, and the text gives some nice introductory information about the sort of things you could find on a beach.
Clam-I-Am: All About the Beach by Tish Rabe, illustrated by Aristides Ruiz. Part of the Cat in the Hat Learning Library, this book […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jun 25th, 2007 No Comments »
We’ve been pretty good about creating our own math games. However, at some point I felt like our creativity ran dry with the materials we already owned. There were some math pages in Carbon’s general preschool workbook, but we all agreed they were poorly designed and boring.
I have some stuff on hold from the library, […]
Posted in Memes on Jun 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Karen at Only Sometimes Clever has tagged me for a musical meme. The idea is to list songs that you can’t resist singing along to.
I love singing along, to any song that I know the words to. But, the songs that I will most likely sing along to are all ones that have some sort […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jun 22nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Things are pretty different in homeschool curriculum, since I was a kid. There weren’t anywhere near as many big publishers marketing to homeschoolers, and we used lots of small business, very simple publishing style, limited quantity, type materials. Now, most of those little companies seem to be out of business, and no one wants the old […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Jun 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Yesterday
Carbon: “Do the Mythbusters get scared when they blow stuff up?”
Me: “No, they like to blow things up.”
Carbon: “Well, blowing stuff up is dirty.”
Me: “Yes, it can make a mess.”
Carbon: “Maybe Mythbusters should be on Dirty Jobs.”
Today
In the sandbox with a bucket of dirt, Carbon looks up at me and smiles, then says “this is […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jun 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
Now that Carbon is officially doing “school” for one hour a day, I’ve made him his first school organizer. I used pictures to make a weekly chart that he can check off himself. He has a box for his workbooks, for reading aloud, for art or music, for math, for geography, for nature, for exercise/active […]
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