2e Tuesday: Stranger in a Strange Land.

Being a 2e kid in the world is like living in a place where you don’t speak the language. I know, because I was a 2e kid and I’ve lived in a place where I didn’t speak the language!
Once upon a time, I lived in Hungary. Hubby and I were there with Naturalist [...]

Math Monday:: Creative Computation

I know, I’ve been all about number patterns lately. Naturalist and I are drawn to finding the patterns, but Golfer prefers to do good ole’ fashioned number crunching. The more computations he has to do, the better. My goal was to find a way to make it so that we could join [...]

Spring is here!

You know how I know this? Because we just had a blizzard role through here and drop about 1 1/2 feet of snow on us. Every year, Spring is christened this way. In fact, March is typically the snowiest month for us. Winter waits for all the buds on the trees [...]

Highlight Reel ‘08

I’m sitting in the middle of a developing blizzard, so had some time to finish up a project I’ve been working on since late ‘08. Yay! I’m learning how to work with imovie on my Mac, and so far, so…not bad!
For your viewing pleasure, I’ve compiled a movie of the homeschooling highlights [...]

Curious.

I bet you have kids that sit on chairs to eat (not under the table) and call this a plum (not a “butt fruit”).
I, obviously, don’t.
Civilizing my kids aint goin’ too good.

2e Tuesday: The Care and Keeping of a Twice Exceptional Kid.

You’ve heard me say it before…there are some kids who fly outside the sphere of ‘normal, average, look them up in a child development book’. My kids, for example. I finally threw all my child rearing books away, because they just didn’t fit my experience or my kids out of the box natures. [...]

Math Monday: Dyscalculia! AKA, something you’ve never heard of.

If you’ve never seen or heard of the word ‘dyscalculia’, you’re not alone. Until 3 years ago, I didn’t even know what it was, and I have it! It’s one of those lesser known learning differences and has to do with math. Specifically:
The word dyscalculia comes from Greek and Latin which means: [...]

Welcome, Spring!

What took you so long?!

Happy (belated) St. Patrick’s Day!

We were partying so hard over here, I forgot to post a holiday greeting on St. Patrick’s Day. And when we weren’t partying hard, we were trying to catch a pesky leprechaun who kept turning our white foods green. First it was the milk, then the pancake batter, then the sour cream and [...]

2e Tuesday: How to end a sentence that begins with “I can’t…”

Guess who this is:
She has been called—by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others — the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels.
Do you know?
Do [...]