Waaaah. Where did the month go. I think this is a refrain I’m going to keep repeating month after month. This month we took a
Category: Homeschool
Things got a little crazy after we started on Sagebooks. I started researching on teaching stroke orders, character layout, character components, and then started school.
Age: 7.5 Presentations: Multiples: Concept and Language of Multiples, Multiples: Common Multiples, Commutative Law of Multiplication: A Number x a Number, Commutative Law of Multiplication: A Sum x a Number Last week, I
January passed by fast, probably due to the fact that I had such fun in the classroom. Compared with the despair, frustration, and lack
This is the third week that Astroboy is on Sagebook’s first book. He seems to be having a lot of trouble with the “concept” characters
If you homeschool at home, suddenly there are many “tools” you need to get in order to make materials. In Montessori education especially, there are
This week, we continued our work in Sagebook. Those flashcards are making learning a bit easier because there are so many uses for them. For
According to Montessori curriculum, kids start in earnest with fractions in first grade. Last semester, I tried to get Thumper to learn her fractions. While
Last month, I got really into wanting to find out how children learn/remember. The impetus was wondering if Anki would help Thumper learn her addition facts.
In October and November, I struggled mightily with work plans; partly because I had so many ones I knew about. First there are the work