observation

hey, the flikr sidebar is working!
How’d you fix that Gina? I tried and tried to get that working! Now I’ll have to start posting pics in our flikr group (which any our millons of readers are free to join, by the way)

That’s a big bullet hole in your foot…

Okay, bad Mom confession (no, I’m not an extension-cord-waving crackwhore, but…): On Tuesday I left a *small* list of things for Quinn to accomplish school-wise while my sister was watching him, and he drug his feet taking forever to get those few things done. Yesterday, Quinn and I went head-to-head about piano practice all because [...]

block teaching

recently someone posted on a math board I lurk on about how they run their homeschool, and its certainly intriguing. Tell me what you think….they do one subject each day, and one subject only, but they do that subject for 2 hours and every day for about 2 weeks. So for two weeks nothing but [...]

computer programming

Look what Allison did. She programmed this game all by herself! Its simple, hit the green flag at the top to start it, and then use your mouse to control the mouse..Try to eat the cheese without hitting the cat or the black walls. Only one level and nothing cool happens when you eat the [...]

Meet Pox

Well, Pox joined our family probably 10 or 11 days ago, but I was just recently able to capture his elegance on “film.” (Snort, film…)

Our adorable friends brought Pox all the way to our home (out in the middle of nowhere) since they decided hamsters are good and geckos are bad. They thought Pox [...]

Minimalism

I am so completely, overwhelmingly, hideously busy for the rest of this month. My work schedule is insane until the 18th, I must complete about 4 or 5 online courses to acquire my prerequisites and education credits for the IBCLC exam application by February 28th, and I have to do my taxes before the end [...]

Times Tales

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that Quinn’s math progresses slowly because he doesn’t have his times tables memorized. He understand it conceptually, but gets bogged down in the details. A couple friends recommended Times Tales–a system of using mnemonic devices to memorize the higher times tables (6s through 9s).

I purchased the “deluxe” edition, with [...]

A Day at the Theatah

We have tickets to our local arts center’s children’s playhouse series. Today was a local production (with kids) of Robinson Crusoe.
There was some art for thoughtful dissection available in the lobby.

We took our seats soon.

Waiting is not easy for five squirrelly boys.

Alexander spent the time with some light reading.

He schmoozed in the aisles a bit.

It’s [...]

A Cozy Recovery

Well, we didn’t get much of my planned school work done this week, since my primary student was sick from Tuesday on, and the administrator and CEO of Education (notice, I’ve promoted myself) was sick before that.

Today Quinn was feeling marginally better (but is complaining that his legs hurt), and spent some time reading and [...]