February 20th, 2008 at 11:25am |
This morning, we embarked on a mathematical adventure not for the faint of heart. It was rigorous and required my sharpest recording skills while Kindy Girl emphatically measured everything in sight with everything else in sight. We used paper clips, wooden blocks, marbles, straws, and toothbrushes to measure the comparative lengths of tables, doors, dry […]
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February 14th, 2008 at 7:53pm |
Today I taught my first Itsy Artists class for our homeschooling group’s exhuberant seven and under crowd. This month we are exploring the arena of drawing. February is a great month for them to make their marks. I am using First Art by MaryAnne Kohl and Art Adventures at Home Level 1 as my primary […]
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February 6th, 2008 at 2:45pm |
I remember when Kindy Girl began really chasing new knowledge. It was exhillarating for both of us. She would root out new discoveries and devour new information with reckless abandon. I would delight in presenting each new topic and watching the experience unfold. Lost in the mire of a year and a half of diapering and […]
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February 6th, 2008 at 2:26pm |
After recovering from almost two weeks of illness, we are finally on the go again. We are way behind where I thought we’d be in terms of book learning at this point, but considering how young Kindy Girl is and how firmly I believe in a mostly child-led sort of program, it does not really […]
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