My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
At the suggestion of Slow Fool Rhode Island, My Mom and I visited the Wintertime Farmer’s Market in Pawtucket RI today. WOW. It’s housed in one of the mill buildings that dot New England towns along the rivers, there was Continue reading Wicked Cool – I’m feeling Bohemian now!
M and B are a little stuffy, but acting like they can carry on. K is absolutely miserable, clingy, and stuffy. I want to organize a music lesson for M, because nothing calms K down like dancing to music, but Continue reading How to do a productive sick day…?
Now that co-op is on the back burner for a few months, I’m feeling the freedom, the joy of ‘What Next?’ Susan Wise Bauer just put up a suggestion that more people organize small academic homeschool conventions, as described in Continue reading Intriguing – I’m feeling ambitious
We took Mom and another friend out for dinner last night in a town mid-way between us (even though K had a cold. It’s hard to schedule time with a bunch of people if we wait until everyone is over Continue reading Get Organized, Chris…
If it is right side up, it buzzes. I think K has loved the red numbers too often!
K likes Pikachu. I let her have it a lot. She likes to hug it. I have a secret back door to K’s brain: I say "Pika!" and she repeats it. Some times M and K want to have it Continue reading Pika? By Guest Blogger B
I found the project annoying honestly. I like food that looks like food, and crafts that you use, decorations take up space that projects and library books sit on. But M knew that B had made a gingerbread house, he Continue reading Gingerbread…phew!
I read M, Carl Sandburg’s Poem ‘Wind Song.’ M looked at me in distress. “Why would the wind throw money away?” he asked me, “I don’t like this poem. I don’t understand it. I don’t like it.” Well, it is Continue reading Poems with M
The week before Thanksgiving, K finally adjusted to the time change. She stopped having regular poison hours before supper, melting down during supper and needing to go to bed at 6:30PM. This week, her molars came in most of the Continue reading Matters of Sleep
I am re-learning old tricks.