Posted in Domestic Bliss on Dec 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
With just 8 hours to spare, I have baked my 1000th cookie for the year! Woohoo!
I started this project as one of my New Year resolutions last year, with paired goals of baking 1000 cookies and sending $300 to The Fistula Foundation to help a woman in Africa receive life-changing surgery. I raised a third […]
Posted in Books on Dec 31st, 2007 2 Comments »
MotherCrone brought this challenge to my attention, and I think this is a perfect project for me this coming year. The idea is to pick 8 books in 8 categories, allowing for 8 overlaps between categories, and read them all in 2008. That’s 56 books if you use all your overlaps.
This seems like a good motivation […]
Posted in Holidays on Dec 28th, 2007 6 Comments »
What a whirlwind of activities we had for the holidays! I am still exhausted, and thank goodness this is a short work week.
First, we were all sick last week, and DH was still too sick to do anything right up until Sunday. On Saturday night, we had my in-law’s annual fancy dress White Elephant party, […]
Posted in Books on Dec 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
The curriculum model we are using for Sunday School this year calls for all these “story baskets”, which are a set up for telling a story with manipulatives. There is an underlay for the story to happen on, and then some sort of 3D objects or laminated pictures. Some of the stories have sets we […]
Posted in Holidays on Dec 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
Posted in Books on Dec 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Bless the earth
and those who love it,
Bless the angels
up above it,
Bless the wonders,
bless the glories,
Bless the world
and all its stories.
Cynthia Rylant
From Bless Us All: A Child’s Yearbook of Blessing
These poems for each month of the year seem like a good introduction to the calendar year, which we are talking about in preparation for New […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Dec 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Somehow, our study of “The Pacific Ocean” turned into more of a study of Hawaii. That’s OK, though, because it turned out to be a lot of fun!
The Books:
Dolphins At Daybreak and High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne
Pele and the Rivers of Fire by Michael Nordenstrom
Punia and the King of Sharks by Lee […]
Posted in Books on Dec 17th, 2007 4 Comments »
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Be warned that you might want to have a hankie nearby when you read this book; I cried the whole time I read the last three chapters out loud. However, after that tear-fest, Carbon immediately asked to “go back and read it […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Happy Birthday today to my DH. Even though he says he feels old, he’s still a big kid. And this weekend we’re treating him like one!
This morning I finally got to give him the cool present I bought him: The Lego Imperial Star Destroyer! The directions look like a road atlas, and I think […]
Posted in Daycare and Preschool on Dec 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
So goes the wisdom on preschool (or children’s in general) art. It’s even in the title of this book we’re using right now.
Here’s the process (messy and fun)
Pour liquid starch in the middle of your large paper. Add a little bit of tempura paint (use real tempura, not Crayola poster paint because that just did […]
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