Posted in Full Disclosure, Fun, history, pictures, plays on Apr 28th, 2009 7 Comments »
We have been so busy with fun stuff that I haven’t had a chance to blog about any of it! Here’s something fun we did recently, though. The girls took part in a Reader’s Theater production of “Betsy’s Birthday Party” for the Betsy-Tacy Society in honor of what would be Betsy’s (Maud Hart Lovelace) 117th [...]
Posted in games, Kindergarten, math, Preschool on Apr 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
Here’s a fun way to teach little ones about addition and help them see all the combinations that can make up a number. Head over to education.com for the instructions.
Posted in geography, social studies, video on Apr 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
Does it get any more fun and easy than this to learn the states and capitols? [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/sNUDDaEOvuY" width="425" height="350"/]
Posted in Alex, pictures on Apr 26th, 2009 1 Comment »
You can always tell babies who are not the first or second of the family! This was Alex the other day at the park. He’s the speck at the top, hollering for someone to go to the bottom and catch him. That’s a pretty big slide for a pretty small boy! Next he’s going to [...]
Posted in cool sites, Lapbooks, nature on Apr 26th, 2009 No Comments »
I was perplexed to see that I had nearly 400 hits last week on a day that I didn’t post anything particularly amazing, so I went looking at my site meter to see if I could figure out why. It turns out someone put up this great little page full of neat stuff to make [...]
Posted in history on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
A few things that happened today in history, April 24: In 1184 BC, the Grreks entered Troy by using the Trojan Horse… In 1898, the US declared war on Spain… and in 1800, John Adams approved $5000 for the purchase of “such books as may be necessary for the use of congress.” – the Library [...]
Posted in Child Development, Funnies, Victoria on Apr 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
Yesterday I wrote on the Magical Childhood blog about Victoria nearing 11 and changing so drastically. She is growing up so suddenly and changing so much. It’s more than a bit unnerving! So I went looking for normal development for 11 year-olds and found this handy dandy chart listing the physical, emotional, social, etc. development [...]
Posted in cool sites, Fun, games, math on Apr 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s even more math games, links and fun. My goal is to have the kids try one site or game each day and keep track of the ones they like. That’s if their computer will EVER work. Did I mention it only works when you haven’t had to run the furnace for 24 hours? Good [...]
Posted in cool sites, math on Apr 23rd, 2009 1 Comment »
This site has a billion or so fabulous links to fun ways for kids to learn math, from ways to use food to cuisenaire rods to online games to tons more. You could visit one a day and never run out of great stuff (well, if you’re flaky like me anyway and forget a lot [...]
Posted in In the news on Apr 22nd, 2009 4 Comments »
Actually, our [American] fourth-graders compare well on such global tests with, say, Singapore. But our high school kids really lag, which means that “the longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers,” said McKinsey. From this New York Times opinion piece about how American schools measure up internationally. [...]
