Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
We’ve been birdwatching for a long time with Carbon. There have been times that he’s been more into it and times that he’s been less interested and I’ve been the one doing it. Fortunately, we started keeping a journal from the very beginning, and we can look back and remember each birding adventure we’ve had.
The […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jan 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Go read this Wonderful post at Handmade Homeschool
Posted in Crafts on Jan 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Since I started swapping on swap-bot.com, my crafting has become more prolific, creative, and fun. Having a deadline for a set of projects pushes me to actually do them, so I don’t have a whole bag of things I’ve started and then never finished. I have to finish them - there’s someone waiting for it! […]
Posted in Books on Jan 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
My books:
I still believed it was my job to fill the time quickly with a minimum of distractions, and the appearance of a correct answer gave me the surest feeling that I was teaching. It did not occur to me that the distractions might be the sounds of the children thinking. (page 7)
Bad Guys Don’t […]
Posted in J.'s Homeschooling on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
What did Ibn Battuta do? Approximately when?
1,000 B.C
500 AD
1300 AD
1800 AD
Approximately when did the Portugeuse first build forts in
West Africa?
1300
1500
1700
1900
How did the discovery of the
Americas affect
Africa?
Where and when was the Asante Empire?
Guinea
Coast, 500 AD
Guinea
Coast, 1600 AD
South Africa, 1000 AD
South Africa, 1500 AD
Name and give something about 1-2 other African kingdoms
How were the
Nile and
Niger rivers important […]
Posted in Links and Blog Friends, Books on Jan 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve been tagged by Tara for a book meme.
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
I’ll play along! Well, I’m in my kitchen, so the book nearest me is … Bad Guys Don’t Have […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jan 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
My brother is 19 years old now. That’s old enough that most everyone had given up on him ever being able overcome his learning disabilities. Doctors had told my mom long ago that some day his brain might grow the pathways needed to make his language center work better, but over the years the focus […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories, Homeschooling and Education on Jan 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
My son is still young and enjoying “school”, as evidenced by this comment today:
”You have us do schoolwork just because you’re really nice, mommy.”
It warms the cockles of my heart, it does. Of course, we were doing math with M&M’s at the time …
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jan 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Part of me really likes the idea of block scheduling, because it gives a chance to start and complete a project, or delve into a subject until you are really tired of it. On the other hand, some work (like math) can seem best done in small daily bites. I go back and forth, and […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Jan 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
A long weekend can be so nice! With 3 days off, we had time to both relax AND get some projects and chores done that needed doing. The reroof continues, and that had freaked out our dog enough that she chewed through her fence. We fixed that this weekend, and while the sun was out […]
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