Category Archives: Extras

Star Wars?

He is totally into Star Wars all of a sudden. We watch it at least once a day now. He is a Jedi Knight with his plastic light saber. It’s hilarious. You have to see it HAHA I should video it sometime. He does all the moves with the movie. He also asks WAY too [...]

Penguin followup

Well tonight we got an impromptu follow up to the penguin learning session. March of the Penguins is on tonight. It just came on the Animal Planet channel. My son is engrossed already. He even said “look those are like the penguins we saw on the computer”. I love it when it all comes together. [...]

The Eye of the Dolphin

I saw something about this movie earlier today and decided to check into it to see if it would be a good one for my son to watch. The story is about a fifteen year old girl who makes friends with a dolphin. The two get together to change the lives of the people around [...]

Summer activity

We have been doing a lot of workbook activities of late. He has been really excelling at getting things done. He is the initiator and begs to do his books nearly daily. We have worked on his penmanship, spelling, letter recognition, reading, simple math, and artsy things. We made insects out of pipe cleaners. He [...]

Thinking ahead: Tutoring

When I was a preschooler, my mother sent me to a summer program that was supposed to give us a jump start when we attended school in the fall. I remember nearly every aspect of those summer days. They really made a lasting impact. Now that I am the mother of a preschooler, I can’t [...]

Back!

Video from the trip. My son had a ball! We all did. You can read about our misadventures on my other blog. Puerto Rico is beautiful. It was a great learning experience. He got to see palm trees, clear water, two colored sand, dead coral, lizards, indigenous flowers, mountains, aerial views, airplanes from the inside… [...]

Knock! Knock!

me: who’s there? him: friend me: friend who? him: friend you! The first joke he ever really told me. Isn’t that precious? LOL If this is the beginning of the unfunny jokes phase, I don’t know what I am going to do. I hope that he learns some good ones. This might be the beginning [...]

The big debut!

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Franz Kafka on education

from Quotes of the Day by Quotations Book: I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from [...]

Old Schoolhouse Magazine

Whoopee! I just got an email that they are having a sale. I have been waiting for a long time to get this magazine at a lower rate, and lookee here I got it for 10$ off! YAY. I can’t wait to get the Winter issue. I have a blog over on homeschoolblogger.com but I [...]