Fri, September 16th, 2011

Finding a Groove

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 [...]

Thu, September 1st, 2011

2 Months & 2 Hospital Stays Later

Please welcome Nickel.
Born June 27th at 5:23am.

(Huge thank yous to Kim at Brink Street Photography for such a perfect picture of the boys).

Fri, April 9th, 2010

Nomenclature Cards

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 [...]

Tue, April 6th, 2010

Easter

The Bean had his very first Easter Egg hunt this year. You would’ve thought I’d been depriving him the way my grandma kept saying, “Pobrecito, he’s learning so quickly! It’s the first time. Que pobrecito!”

It probably didn’t help that I completely forgot to boil and color eggs, and I wasn’t allowed didn’t get him a [...]

Sat, March 27th, 2010

Fire Fire!

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 [...]

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