Posted in Nature on Aug 21st, 2008 Comments Off
I told Kieron about the 100 Species Challenge and he liked the idea of it. I have been wanting to take the children on more regular nature walks so I thought this might be a good focus. Paddy was excited about “hunting for animals” so yesterday was our first venture. […]
Posted in special needs, Nature, Movies on May 17th, 2007 2 Comments »
In spite of the philosophical sounding title this is not philosophical, just a collection of a few unschooling-type things that have been happening around here. But I almost want to save the title for a post where I might actually tie those things together : ). I’ll leave it there to […]
Posted in organization, Nature, Journal on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I am trying to move into project mode for summer. Today I went through the big box of papers — schoolwork, internet print-outs, notebooks and so on — which I normally keep in a big box under my office table. It took most of the morning, while I sat […]
Posted in Nature, Journal on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Liam smashed me at chess yesterday. Usually he wins, but we fight it out to a couple of bedraggled pawns and maybe a rook or bishop. This time he checkmated me unexpectedly right in the middle of the game. Sigh…
Then we started a game of Monopoly. The neat […]
Posted in Nature, Journal on Apr 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
I decided to do today as a photojournal.
am — Sean reading Father Brown while Aidan works on Handwriting:
Then we went for a walk to the ridge:
Still snow on the ground
But a few signs of spring:
Paddy clambering up the ridge — granite, coniferous trees and blue sky — you know you’re in the Sierra National Forest!
Sean […]
Posted in Nature on Apr 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday, after I blogged here, I took the little ones outside for a nature walk. We have several routes — one is the “Pine Cone Place” walk, and one is the “Granite Ridge” walk. I am trying to put Nature on the front burner as we move towards spring. […]
Posted in Nature, Journal on Feb 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Today got off to a slow start. Sean was tired (part of being a teenager) and I was tired too, having stayed up late last night.
We managed to get through math and Latin, but I hesitated to load a bunch of other things on them. I really want to experiment with following my intuition […]
Posted in Links, Nature, Transition Years on Dec 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
I just realized that I hardly ever add anything to my lonely “Nature” category. Maybe that’s a hint that I should go outside more often. But in the meantime, perhaps some of the “Rambles” of my daughter will substitute for my lack of effort? The picture above was one of […]
Posted in Nature, Living and learning on Jul 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Kieron took this picture of a lizard:
and this picture too, at the request of his sister
–wow, looks like he’s been studying impressionist painters:
Here’s the photographer himself taking a break:
And here he’s hiding from the spray hose:
Posted in Milestones, Nature on Jun 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
Liam brought me over to the granite ridge near our house to show me the carpenter ant hive he had discovered last year before he went off to college. We walked along a trail dotted with wildflowers, jumped over a small creek and were at last near a fallen, decaying, massive trunk […]
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