My Bean finished her second year of Daisy Girl Scouts this past year. She’ll be entering second grade in the fall and that means bridging to Brownies. Although not officially transitioned, I did want to do some girl scout events this summer, so I planned on doing the bug badge from the Brownies Guide to Girl […]
Mrs. Snodgrass, my sons third grade teacher, is amazing. She’s a wonderful person, as well as an inspiring teacher. Although my son is now in 4th grade, I still volunteer in her classroom every week. I am devastated that she retires this year and Laurel will never have the chance to experience Mrs. Snodgrass’ classroom. […]
My daughter does not like to write. Or color. Or do anything that really works her hands in a way to prepare her for writing in kindergarten. Oh, she will use markers occasionally, probably because they are so much easier to make marks with than pencil or crayons, but even that is a struggle. It’s […]
Our PTA lego night last night was a success! Â We had 230-250 attendees, which is the biggest turnout ever for our small school of about 320 students in 250 families. Â Besides a boatload of Legos for free play, Little Engineers came with a few stations with robots, etc. We offered substantial refreshments for working families […]
Mark Rothko is an abstract expressionist, specifically known as the pioneer of color field painting. He was chosen to represent abstract expressionists for our lesson because he spent a number of years here in Portland, OR, and some of his work is on display in the Portland Art Museum. I had the classes of 4th […]
Little LE is exactly one month away from turning 4.  I am convinced that she is gifted. In its own way, its as challenging raising my little LE as it is raising a child with Asperger’s. Right now, I am faced with the challenge of perfectionism. Her brain processing power is ahead of her fine […]
Over the last year or so, light tables have been a big deal in the momma blogger / homeschool scene.  It’s funny because we’ve been playing with light a very long time, although certainly not with a fancy, big table. I have a very old LightTracer box picked up years and years ago for tracing […]
We’ve been doing a fair amount of salt dough creation. Right now we are working on an Easter egg tree. We made salt dough eggs, and have painted them a base color. We’ll be adding accents later. Kidlet and I will be exploring glass etching to decorate the vase we are using to hold the […]
One of the things that Kidlet struggles with is handwriting (which I know I’ve been mentioning for years!). The fact is that he has some motor skill issues (not uncommon with aspergers), and its not entirely in his control (although he absolutely will not hold the pencil correctly; I’ve tried so many different pencil grips, […]
Lil L is 32 months. Kidlet just turned 8. A Few of Lil L’s recent activities. You can see her poor scraggly hair a bit in some of these. My daughter inherited *my* hair, which means its very thin, very fine, and tangles if you breathe on it. This is no exaggeration. No amount of […]
