His follow up to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid involved him reading the Big Nate series, which is similar, but not wholly the same as its predecessor. He just finished the third book this morning. I am sure he would have been done them a long time ago, but he is so taken by [...]
Sports theme hand painted knobs, a photo by SockMopTart on Flickr. My son and I painted these this morning for the cabinets his father built in his room.
We are working our way through the Fiesta! series of books about the world. So far, we have been to Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia. Now we are on China. I was going to do a D country, but he LOVES China so I figured we would do his favorite things for now. His Ti-Ti helped [...]
I found a template for an IHIP that made sense to the way that we do things in our home. I filled it in with the things we do that fulfill the requirements for NY. Now I only have to wait for the response from the district so I can move forward and get this [...]
SOOO I sent in our Letter of Intent to the school district in our area on the evening of March 30th, but I know it didn’t go out till the 31st. They have 10 days to reply, so I am waiting. In the meantime, I have to figure out my IHIP (Individualized Home Instruction Plan) [...]
WOW My son saw the movie and began to voraciously devour the books themselves. He read the first book in five days, the second book in two and a half days, and today he began the third book and is only half an inch from finishing it. Thank God for the library and me getting [...]
We got my son into a lego club at the local library. They build something within an hour at the library, then name it and put it on display for 2 weeks. Pretty awesome. Here is his first creation called “The Warehouse”:
I have decided to do a week unit study on MLKJ. We found some fabulous books at the library. There is a book like one used in many classrooms, and another that is the story of his life and struggles on a 1-3 grade level. Awesome.
My husband and Taz started talking about something on tv, which turned into a conversation about diamonds, which lead to a conversation about what to use them for including teeth, which ran into the comment my husband made about how people used to have teeth made from ivory and even from wood. I began looking [...]
Christmas tree 2010 Originally uploaded by SockMopTart My son’s creativity. His father helped. My son’s idea was to take a styrofoam cup and carve it into a star for the tree. This way it looks like there is a candle lighting it from the bottom. awesome.
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