Halloween is upon us!

And I’m soooo not ready.
It’s just not right when Hubby has to shovel the sidewalk so trick or treaters can make it to our front door. It’s actually reminding me quite a bit of ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’.
We haven’t even carved pumpkins! In fact, I don’t even have pumpkins! All the [...]

2e Tuesday::Jonathan Mooney

Every parent of a 2e or out of the box thinker should know the name Jonathan Mooney. Labeled with ADD, dyslexia and severe learning disabilities, he is, in fact, a 2e Out of the Box Thinker himself and he’s written two books on the subject: Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students With [...]

2e Tuesday: slight delay….

Not that I’ve been great at getting these out on Tuesday, anyway, but this week I was really trying hard!!
However, today I’ve been running around preparing for some nasty weather. And on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, nasty means we’re holed up in our house for the next few days, with or without [...]

Math Monday::Halloween Symmetry!

With Halloween being not to far away, at least for us here in the USA (which reminds me of a hysterical story involving our attempt to trick or treat with the kids when we lived in Budapest…but I’ll save that for later…), we’ve been crafting like crazy. Also, the leaves are almost all off [...]

True Love

True Love

I love Coke. Especially Cherry Coke. I’m trying to cut back and drink more water…it’s smooth sailing until about 4:30 hits and I realize I still have 6 more hours of awake time where I need to cook, clean, read to kids, organize stuff, and all other manner of ‘awake time’ things. [...]

2e Tuesday::Attitude Adjustment.

I know this is Wednesday, but technically I started thinking about this post on Tuesday so it still qualifies.
I have an acrylic painting that Naturalist made for me when she was 8 and still in school, I keep it right by the stove in my kitchen. It’s a portrait of me, so [...]

Math Monday::It’s hip to be square!

Yep, we’re still being square over here for Creative Math Club. We had a few new kids, so we basically just went back over how to find a square number using square pieces of paper (cut lovingly by moi the night before…it was a good excuse to get the super cool paper cutter from [...]

Actual emails I have to write because I am a dork.

“Dear Denver Center for the Performing Arts,
Hi! My name is [childplay]. I bought tickets to Wicked a few months ago, printed them out, and have since lost them. I’m so sorry but now I’m not sure what the dates were for our show.
Could you please tell me what dates I have tickets [...]

Ah, New York.

Still uploading pictures so I can tell the riveting tale of Naturalist and my trip to NYC. I know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats in anticipation…all 2 of you…and I’m sooooo close to being ready to dish the details via pictures.
I know it’s only been 2 weeks since [...]

Math Monday::Shape Safari

Last Math Monday I talked about finding square numbers and square roots with older kids (8 and up). While they were doing that with Sonja, I hung out with the younger kids and we did some shape explorations of our own!
First, we used Learning Resources Classpack Tangrams
to construct our own ‘mosaics’ (and yes, we [...]