Story of the World activities from the past week
February 8th, 2008
Cuneiform tablets.
Heiroglyphic scrolls.
The Great Lego Pyramid and Sphinx. Complete with mummified lego person and lego treasures inside.
I think I need another blog
September 25th, 2007for my other projects. Is that blog greedy?
I never post to this one. Probably because I never actually homeschool the kids. :-p Just kidding, of course, but with the move coming up, there’s not a whole lot of formal schooling or field trip stuff happening. They are learning a lot about home repairs, neutral paint colors, and how to declutter and pack efficiently.
Blackberries are hanging on the vines
June 26th, 2007We’ve been picking and eating for a week. Tonight Rowan and I went down to the field where the berries grow wild and abundantly in our neighborhood and picked a few cups to bring home and freeze. We ate a dessert of fresh berries as we picked.
Rowan’s quote of the day: “My mouth is MY bucket.”
So true. It was apparently my annex bucket, as well - berries kept disappearing from my bucket as fast as I could pick them. 
Do we hafta?
May 30th, 2007It’s soooo beautiful outside right now. Guess how much academic work we’ve done in the last 3 weeks.
another Patrick puzzler
May 13th, 2007kid still can’t read as well as he’d like, but I see it slowly soaking into his brain.
But this is what he does amazingly well: he intuitively grasps math concepts. He was able to tell me what 1/3 of 30 was. Then 1/4 of 100. Then 5/7 of 49.
At 6 years old. He rocks.
Mother’s Day
May 13th, 2007The fighting weasels were at it until we went outside. Spent 5 hours in the garden - moved a disappointingly small amount of bermuda grass from where the veggie beds belong to where I’d rather have bbermuda (the weedy/fescuey areas of the back yard).
Anyway, once they were outside, the arguing ceased, and they played in the Spring sunshine till the last ray was gone. Then we celebrated with the traditional Mother’s Day call to Papa John’s for a mushroom pizza.
I got a little done: made a good bit of path where the neighbor’s broken sprinkler had turned my yard into a swamp. It’s about 3 ft wide with newspaper to block weeds and a nice deep layer of mulch. I also moved raspberries to their official homes, moved wheelbarrows full of horse manure for the herb beds, and got about halfway done preparing a veggie bed.
Lego days
February 3rd, 2007Our JFLL team and another team got together for a “Play at Home” event to present our projects.
Rowan at Hogwart’s Jun ‘06
November 22nd, 2006
Rowan at Hogwart’s June 06
Originally uploaded by mamaxt.
A photo from the Academy’s summer school field trip to Oxford.
Amicola Falls Nov 06
November 22nd, 2006
Amicola Falls Nov 06
Originally uploaded by mamaxt.
We had a field trip. I, being the Academy’s official pack mule, carried our youngest student up a rather steep trail while the other two ran ahead with friends. This is when we finally caught up at the top of the falls.
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