Mardi Gras masks! You'll have to pardon this post, because I am ending up the week with a cold and three sick little boys. (The littlest boy was sick over the course of the week, but was he sick with what we've all come down with today or with the last mild cold that passed thr...

Week 6: Valentines, Valentines, Valentines:   Katydid, wearing her rose-colored glasses (they actually are rose-tinted, to help with her headaches) looks very Valentine-ish, doesn't she?   Most of the Valentines this year involved large amounts of glitter.  I think this is Pip&...

Weeks 3, 4, and 5 are being lumped together as cabin fever weeks.  I think we did actually do something, and I have a few pictures to prove it, but mainly winter insanity took over. This week (week 5) ended up a little better than I expected, after a disastrous Monday on which I in...

    Yes, there is an Advent wreath hidden somewhere in this picture. (I also just noticed: Pip's cardboard castle is positioned just right to make it seem like something is nesting in an open woodstove. I feel like I'm posting a version of hidden pictures!) But, obviously, ...

  A while back Farmerboy and I watched an episode of Curious George that was all about building bridges.  The kids in the video clip following the episode were attempting to build bridges using marshmellows and toothpicks.  I'd heard of the idea before, but this time I made sur...

Way back in February, Lindsay wanted to know: I'm new to your blog, so you may have explained this in the past and I've missed it: but could you tell me more about "choice time"? How long does it last? What are the parameters? What ages does it work well with? What is your role as the teac...

Well, we've had our vacation, and Holy Week, and Easter Monday to recover from Easter, so now it's back to work.  I'd brought all of our school books along on our trip, but we didn't crack them once.  (I did, however, count many of our days as "school", simply because there was s...

These were the choices on our whiteboard today. (Pardon the flash; it's too dark in the entryway to take a picture without it.)  After we finished our read aloud time (the bits about Shrove Tuesday from The Catholic Home and a chapter or so from Gone Away Lake ) and did our chores, we settled d...

Dawn and Theresa both posted recently about their "typical" days.  Their posts reminded me that I hadn't done a Day in the Life post for a while, so I decided to keep track of our Friday.  Friday was typical in that we didn't go anywhere (we have more days at home than not during...