Posted in My own homeschooled life, Parenting on Apr 30th, 2008 5 Comments »
It’s a stereotype that I’ve run into many times as a homeschooled graduate, that people assume I must have been sheltered. That I must never have “rubbed shoulders” with the crowds and masses, never learned “street smarts”, and never encountered people profoundly different from myself. My answer to that, is that you cannot send a […]
Posted in Crafts, Homeschooling and Education on Apr 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
For church, I have to make these sets of manipulatives that go with the story being told in our Montessori-style class. I’ve mentioned these stories before, and how much fun I can have putting them together. Carbon has been watching me make and tell these stories all year, and he’s also been collecting the scraps […]
Posted in Books on Apr 28th, 2008 5 Comments »
We have been having so much fun reading Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome. Four siblings are given permission to take a sailing boat and camp alone on a small island. The real events of sailing, camping, and fishing are woven into something magical through their imaginary life as explorers and pirates. Despite its hefty length […]
Posted in The Art of Happiness, Holidays on Apr 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
This weekend was packed! Friday night was ArtsWalk in town, which is an annual event where downtown businesses display local artists’ work and there are street performers and folks walk around checking it all out. We went down with the kids (eating dinner down there first) and walked them around in the crowds, watching a […]
Posted in Happy and Healthy Childhoods on Apr 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
I’ve been surprised at how well it has gone this week to just say No to TV. DH and I haven’t stuck to the rules at night after the kids have gone to bed, but the kids have not watched anything but two videos this week (the movie that came in on Monday, and a […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Apr 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
We are doing Spanish for our language, although I think I’d like to also do sign language with the kids. But for now, we’ll stick with the Spanish. It’s currently on our schedule one day a week.
My goals for Carbon for Spanish this coming year are: to be able to count to 20 in Spanish, […]
Posted in Daycare and Preschool, Happy and Healthy Childhoods on Apr 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
I can try to give the kids a project to do, but they are such little independent thinkers that they frequently chage the objective on me.
I started off with sponge prints as the plan.
Hypatia couldn’t quite figure it out, but she had fun using the sponges as paintbrushes.
Then Carbon had the idea to fold his […]
Posted in Books on Apr 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Charity Girl tells the tale of a young girl trying to make it on her own during WWI (before women had the vote, before women could really be independent), who gets swept up in a government program to quarantine girls with “social diseases” and thus protect the “fighting boys”. The novel is a coming-of-age tale, […]
Posted in Books on Apr 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
I have a new book fan in my household, and Hypatia has some definite ideas about what makes a good read. Quick page turns, animal noises, anything with pictures of babies - that’s the way to her heart usually.
Oh my, Oh my, Oh Dinosaur by Sandra Boynton is Hypatia’s favorite book. She is obsessed with this […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss, Holidays on Apr 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Happy Earth Day everyone! We will be celebrating today by making little Earth Flags with the daycare kids (draw a Earth, cut it out, glue it in the center of a sheet of blue paper), and watching the city haul our old dryer off for recycling FOR FREE (Thanks, city!). We also have some books […]
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