Before we began Core A, I was having a really hard time deciding whether or not Bean was ready for it. I’d read over and over, “Better late than early”, and the multitude of warnings of burning a kid out. Afterall, he is only 4 years old. The minimum suggested age is 5. Maybe it [...]
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Fri, April 9th, 2010
3 Part Cards If you’ve never heard of nomenclature cards, they’re a pre-reading tool utilized mostly by Montessori education. They’re also called three part cards or classification cards. They’re generally classified by type of something, i.e. birds, transportation, household items, mammals, etc. As the name suggests, they come in 3 parts. A name piece, a picture [...] Sat, March 27th, 2010
Bean’s been a sucker for fire engines since he was a year old. He suddenly had a resurgence of interest a week and change ago, so we did a fire engine day. Tires & Ladder for Cutting The night before I drew two circles for tires and a ladder shape on a black piece of construction [...] Wed, March 24th, 2010
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco was our Sonlight p3/4 book of choice today. After Mary Ellen grows tired of reading, Grampa takes her, and an ever-growing number of neighbors, on a chase of pollen footed bumblebees around the Michigan woods. The illustrations are quite colorful and, while Bean [...] Mon, March 22nd, 2010
In 2006, my not-yet-husband and my pregnant self moved into our very first house in an immigrant neighborhood in Denver. A neighborhood with an amazing history, amazing people and a really, really bad reputation – both environmentally and economically. The house itself was a steal, a 1940 bungalow with a finished basement, newly painted interior, [...]  |
Bean is 4 years, 10 months
old.
Nickel is 46 weeks, 4 days
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