Elementary
Schedules and such
September 8, 2008
Ah... I've got my cup of tea and I'm sitting down for my afternoon hour of writing. I've worked really hard all morning at staying on schedule breakfast, e-mail & RSS, kitchen clean up, hanging laundry, reading with kids, math, spelling and handwriting, make lunch, eat lunch. I even got ...
Kindergarten, Easy Does It
September 6, 2008
You may have already noticed that we're not really big on formal schooling around here. But there are a few things like math, handwriting and spelling (for Céline) that we work into our daily routine to build skills. It was Céline's desire to learn all of these that got them ...
School planning
September 3, 2008
I spent the evening planning for the upcoming school year and figuring out general household routine... at Starbucks. Kind of like a mini-retreat, complete with over priced "white" tea - what the heck is white tea? Anyway, the night out by myself, even if it was for school purposes, was ...
(this week's) top three reasons we homeschool
August 27, 2008
No doubt there's as many reasons to homeschool as there are days in the year. Today, kids in our town started school a full 3 days before labor day weekend (seems wrong to me). Three days, three reasons for homeschooling. 1. We'd rather go to the beach on the nicest ...
Raising Monarchs
August 26, 2008
Every late summer the kids and I raise monarch larvae (caterpillars) into butterflies. Monarch larvae eat only milkweed so if it's a good monarch year they are easy to find and easy to feed. We find them as minute eggs or fingernail sized caterpillars at the farm and house them ...
Introducing Playful Learning
August 4, 2008
I'm very pleased to share a web resource I recently stumbled on via a comment left on my blog. Playful Learning is a website with blog posts that feature "simple, playful learning experiences that parents can easily share with their children". I personally like the simple part. Discovering this website/blog ...
Pretty Lady
July 28, 2008
Thanks to a recent butterfly post at the lovely blog, gardenpath, the kids and I were able to easily identify this weekend visitor to the garden. Vanessa cardui, commonly known as Painted Lady.
