Posted in Daily log, nature, PE, magical moments, social studies, art, math, reading, science, writing on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Three random ways the kids learned in each subject the past few days….
Math
Jack was answering addition and subtraction questions for goldfish crackers in Guy and Val’s hotel room this morning.
Victoria did some math pages to earn extra computer time.
The kids’ computer is hooked up to the net now in the living room and Anna instant […]
Posted in magical moments, pictures, Fun on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Our good friends Val and Guy came down for a visit this weekend.
I’ve known Val since high school and Daryl has known Guy since college. We consider them chosen family, and our kids adore them.
As soon as they got here, they were swarmed with kids. Everybody had to hug them, tell them stories […]
Posted in plays, Victoria, pictures on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
It was picture day for Victoria’s “family” in the Wilder Pageant on Thursday so she had to get in full costume. I took a picture before she left for the set. Here’s my little girl as Lydia Beetle.
Her lines, from the grasshopper plague scene:
“Mama, Mama, I can’t sleep.”
(Mama hushes her and tells her […]
Posted in magical moments, pictures, nature on Jun 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
When we go on errands, we try to incorporate stops for the kids on the way there or the way back. Yesterday we had to go to a nearby city for groceries so we had the kids bring bathing suits and buckets for a stop at the lake on the way.
We were there for […]
Posted in Anna, Jack, Victoria, Fun on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
This week I started having assigned days when I spent about an hour doing something special with each child.
I’ve always made a point of doing one-on-one things daily with each of the kids, but it is often mundane tasks like fixing dinner, doing math or pulling weeds. Even those times do matter since it’s focused […]
Posted in magical moments, Jack, Victoria, pictures, Fun on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Jack, Victoria and I were blowing bubbles in the front yard last week when the newspaper editor went by in his van. He circled the block and a minute later I noticed him parked across the street taking pictures. He spelled my name wrong but he did pretty well for just going by memory. […]
Posted in history, science, reading on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I was browsing another HS mom’s Library Thing list a few weeks ago and discovered these 3 books. They were on her 5 star list– books her family owned that she’d buy more copies of if the house burned down. I like that rating! We have some books like that!
I ordered them and […]
Posted in magical moments on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Lots of simple little magical moments happened today. A few were…
Daryl took all the kids except for Victoria for an hour so we could have special one-on-one time. We decided to spend it on a bike ride together and then shooting marbles in the driveway. It was really nice and we laughed a lot during […]
Posted in plays, reading on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Daryl adapted a segment of the first Betsy-Tacy book for reader’s theater. In reader’s theater, the cast members simply read their parts like several people telling a story. There is the fun of acting without the trouble of memorizing parts, making stages and such. The participants can have fun dressing the part and gathering props […]
Posted in Field trips & tours, pictures on Jun 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Victorian lawn party at the Betsy-Tacy houses was lots of fun. Here’s some pics!
Playing outside Tacy’s house…
Inside Tacy’s house…
Betsy’s house across the street, which the Betsy-Tacy society recently bought and is restoring now…
Playing hopscotch and listening to Betsy-Tacy stories…
We also made friends with another Japanese college student and really enjoyed talking to her […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.