OK, her latest fascination is with sticks and seed pods.
Kate carefully selects out the twigs that she wants to add to her collection.
A Three-Year-Old’s Treasures!
I feel so Charlotte Mason!
Archive for the ‘Educating the Whippersnappers’ Category
Nature Study
Posted in Children, Educating the Whippersnappers on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Sad State of American Textbook Publishing
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I found this article on Susan Wise Baur’s (of The Well Trained Mind) Blog. You can find the complete article at edutopia.org .
A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education
A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.
by Tamim Ansary
Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and [...]
Laundry Sorting
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, we’re still working on sorting laundry in this house. I keep simplifying the concept and simplifying it even more so that Kate will get it.
This last time, all she had to do was pull the socks out of the laundry basket and put them in a pile. It kinda worked. I thought it was [...]
Math and Music in Disguise
Posted in Daily Life - Daily Blessings, Educating the Whippersnappers on March 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You see this hideous pile of laundry? Ya, I see it too. But here’s a secret. You’re looking at a giant pile of math concepts. We sort, we pair, roll towels into cylinders; we fold things in half and then we fold them in half again…we quarter them; we fold things in sixths. If ’socks’ [...]
