7Cubed

As part of our health studies, we’re using SAMHSA’s Building Blocks curriculum. It’s pretty fantastic. Not only is it free, but it’s pretty well done. The music is cheesy, as any children’s music is, but it’s nicely put together. The books are enough to keep my son entertained, the activity book is cute, and the [...]

How’s that for alliteration! Hah! My dorkiness knows no bounds.

We’re lucky to be a part of a preschool co-op in the new town we moved to. There are, thus far, 7 families, which is fantastic. We rotate hosting duties, which may or may not be an additional reason we took week 2 off. I had [...]

While we were supposed to be doing week 2 of Core A, we opted instead to spend our time with family and friends. We enjoyed a couple of park days, a co-op day, and a day with grandma and grandpa. I’d like to pretend I wasn’t totally freaked out that we weren’t getting any school [...]

I’ve always been a sewer. Not like a “carries waste water” sort of sewer, a “sews stuff” sort of sewer. You can’t imagine how happy I was to see that one of the Handle on the Arts suggestions this week was to have the Bean sew a shirt. I got him a plastic needle and [...]

Since the first day of Core A involved learning a bit about dinosaurs, but not nearly enough for our liking, I put together a couple of extras to make it a little more exciting.

First, I made a dinosaur maze because Bean loves (loves) mazes. Feel free to download it below.

Second, we made a plaster [...]