Had another quiet day today, as I came down with Daegan’s cold. The boys managed to amuse themselves (and eat all the banana muffins in the house!) while I got a much needed 4-hour nap. Bless them! So not much to post about today, but here’s a small moment I wrote up a couple weeks [...]
Had a fairly quiet day today, as Daegan is snuffling through a cold, Gareth’s asthma is acting up (spring is here!) and I am simply needing a break after a very full past few days. We played, we talked, we read, we baked bread and muffins and made soup, and our big adventure of the [...]
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Gareth’s class gave their performance during the last half of class as well. This class was called “Performing Arts Combo” and included both dance/movement and drama, and was for 5 and 6 year olds. As Gareth just turned 5 in January right before the class started, he was the smallest one. But my goodness was [...]
Both Daegan and Gareth had their final drama classes of the winter session today, and gave short performances to friends and family during the last half of their class. Here’s the highlights of Daegan’s performance (hover mouse over pics for details): The intro line, in which each child stepped forward and said their name and [...]
I saw this fun grammar idea here a few weeks back, and we finally got around to trying it out. First, Daegan created 6 sentences which I wrote out on construction paper. I wrote the subject part of the sentences on pink paper, and the predicates on yellow. Here’s our sentences: We talked briefly about [...]
I saw these videos about using unifix cubes to show how to get the average (mean) of three numbers, and figured they would mesh well with a problem of the day. The kernel for my version of this problem was Day 16 here. Here it is: Last week, the high temperature of the day was [...]
Over the last while I’ve been feeling like something isn’t quite working in our math curriculum. While we do lots of fun activities in math, we’ve been using Math-U-See as a spine in this area, along with a few other workbooks from the Critical Thinking company. While Daegan LOVED Math-U-See Primer last year, and booted [...]
It was World Poetry Day recently (March 21), and my friend Alicia wrote up some fun ways to celebrate. Both she and my friend Tiffany reported “Dice poetry” being a big hit with their kids, so I thought we’d give it a go this morning as well. I went first, picking a topic I love [...]
The weather was great again this past weekend, so we went for another nature walk in our nearby natural area, Edworthy Park. We saw (and heard—“wick! wick! wick! wick!”) oodles of Northern Flickers: I quite like this shot I got mid-flight; it is not until you see their showy colours and white undertail “flickering” when [...]