Elementary
The uninspired garden update
June 23, 2009
Homemaking blogs these days are all about gardens and what's growing. I've been so uninspired in that regard, what with the 40 days and 40 nights of rain we've had. I exaggerate of course but you get the idea of how I feel. But... I don't want to be left ...
salad coming up and a book to read
May 15, 2009
Coming up very soon, hopefully tomorrow, is a post on salad. "Ohh... ahh...", you're all saying. Hey, salads are healthy & salads are fun - really. I've been reading the book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder while munching my lunchtime salads and you can ...
Rainy Day Science
May 12, 2009
We had a couple rainy days last week. Time to pull out the big "educational" guns. An old printer that stopped working earlier this year and that Damien (secretly) stashed for such a time as this - rainy days & restless kiddos stuck indoors. The taking apart continues still and ...
Handicraft and genius
May 6, 2009
I knew I was onto something by letting my children play, crochet, knit, paint, sculpt, dance, sing, and draw instead of teaching them math. {video here if viewed in reader} Ok, that's not totally true. I do sometimes teach them math but the time spent playing and creating far outweighs ...
Pond study
April 14, 2009
These photos are almost 2 weeks old now, hence the snow in the background. At the time I wanted to write a little "pond study" post to go along with them but then thought how fun it would be to collaborate with Mariah at Playful Learning. Her educational blog posts ...
A Spring Learning List
April 8, 2009
We live by the "make hay while the sun shines" adage but since we don't actually live on a farm it's more of a "living by the seasons" philosophy.
