Posted in Planning Posts on Mar 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
Tomorrow is April Fools! This is a completely serious plan, however.
Carbon’s School
Carbon is doing really well with his numbers all of a sudden, so I need to order him the next workbook for math (1-100 comes next, then it’s the beginning of addition). I also have some new books out from the library of math activities, […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Mar 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
As regular readers will know, my family has some “special” diet requirements. We are gluten-free for the kids. As if that isn’t hard enough, we are tomato, pork, and dairy-free for me. There are some other restrictions/goals for our food, but those are the big ones.
I’ve been finding the daily task of “what’s for dinner?” fairly […]
Posted in Daycare and Preschool on Mar 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
I was recently browsing my library when I happened upon a DVD called Draw Me a Story: Nasreddin’s Coat. We were already familiar with that story - in fact the humorous tale is one of my favorites. So I grabbed the DVD, figuring that the kids might enjoy it during quiet time. The “action” of […]
Posted in Books on Mar 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Chugging along on my reading challenge, I’ve just “finished” The Tale of Genji. I didn’t really finish it - I only read 3oo pages of the 1100+ pages. But, as I like to say, I’m finished with it. I did like it, but after a while the incidents started to get repetitive. Basically, Genji is an ancient […]
Posted in Daycare and Preschool on Mar 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Part of our day is devoted to seatwork. This means that the kids have to sit at the table, with a minimum of wiggle and noise, and do some school work or art. Seat time happens during naptime, and it’s part of a series of activities I do with the preschoolers to keep them quiet […]
Posted in Books on Mar 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Over at swap-bot.com, I have a swap up for a favorite children’s book with a stuffie of one of the characters. I was thinking of the box sets that I see at Barnes and Noble, and that Carbon and Hypatia always want. But there are really only a few, very popular, books that have stuffed […]
Posted in Books on Mar 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m very excited that Carbon is finally willing to sit still for some poetry. This week we’ve read a lot of poetry, and we’ve been talking about the poems after each reading. My favorite question is “what do you think that poem was about?” and then we talk about that and about some of the more challenging vocabulary. […]
Posted in Books on Mar 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
I seem to be on a roll of reading books I don’t like. I really tried to give White Noise a shot - it’s supposed to be a “modern classic” and it’s on the Lifetime Reading Plan list … But it’s not for me. I read 2/3, then started skimming and reading a page every […]
Posted in Crafts on Mar 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
Yesterday was a light daycare day, since only the little baby showed up. At first, we were all a little unsettled without more playmates here, but the kids were OK after I took them outside and we planted some seeds in our garden. Then it started to rain, and we all had to come inside […]
Posted in Books on Mar 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
Through the tangle, softly gliding,
Comes a long, long tummy sliding -
Just a belly, nothing more,
Except the eyes that come before,
And a mouth so wide and hollow,
No one knows what it might swallow.
Crickets? Weevils? Worms or slugs?
Juicy, slurpy spittlebugs?
Bouncing frogs, all slick and fat?
Garden fresh. You can’t beat that!
How about some fuzzy mice?
Crunchy snails are always nice […]
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