M and her dad had a great time the other day using the computer to answer some of her myriad questions about anatomy, both human and animal. Using Google Images and Wikipedia, they were able to find pictures and info about the human skeleton as well as the skeleton’s of frogs and several other [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Science Exploration
Posted in parenting, tagged homeschool, parenting, science on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »
This Week’s Books
Posted in chapter books, picture books, reading, tagged books, chapter books, preschool, read-alouds on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »
M filled up her stamp card for the library’s summer reading program so she got to pick out a free book. She picked Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott and she love it!
Other picture books we’re enjoying this week:
The Fool and the Fish, a tale from Russia by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev
New Socks by Bob [...]
Activities To Do With A Preschooler
Posted in homeschool, parenting, tagged parenthacks, parenting, preschool, summer on July 15, 2007 | No Comments »
As mentioned below, when I was pregnant with C, I started making a list of activities that I could do with M so I wouldn’t have to wrack my brain every time I needed a fresh activity or something to get up out of the house. I’d been working on the list and my [...]
Summer Structure
Posted in homeschool, parenting, tagged homeschool, parenthacks, preschool, summer on July 15, 2007 | No Comments »
After reading a post at Parent Hacks about structured versus unstructured summers and a message on a homeschooling list about how to structure learning for a Pre-K aged child, I was inspired to write up the structure we’re using for Mommy and M school.
When I was in my last month of pregnancy last spring, I [...]
Fantasy Read-Alouds and Other Cool Books
Posted in chapter books, picture books, reading, tagged books, chapter books, preschool, read-alouds on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m so exicted that M is now soaking up chapter books. She loves to be read to and is really getting the longer stories. We just finished The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and she asked for more stories about magcial worlds. I asked for fantasy read-aloud suggestions at The Denim [...]
Turtles, Gingerbread, Reading and Charlie and Lola
Posted in homeschool, parenting on July 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Last Monday, I took M and C to our local Nature Center. C slept in the wrap most of the time but she did get a look at the otters. The highlight for M was getting to hold a box turtle which was handed to her by one of our new babysitters, who [...]
