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Mommmyyy…my pencil won’t make numbers!

Posted in Living Math, Montessori, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Sunshine boy(4) was struggling with his pencil today. He kept changing his mind about what direction some of the numbers went in. He wanted to list his numbers from 1-10 but that darned pencil was giving him trouble.
So…
We threw away the pencil…into the pencil box…
and…
whipped out the GREEN pipe cleaners!
I took out a [...]

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Playing with Math

Posted in Living Math on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I often use the Miquon Math program to supplement what we are learning.   I came across this blog that gives some hints and tips for using it more easily.  This blog also has some other links and hints for playing with other math concepts.  I think I will be spending some time here today… HTH!

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Today’s Schoolday…

Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Hands-On Geography, Living Math, Mary Notebooking, Notebooking Your Studies, Tending to Virtue on May 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Life here at the never ending story is wonderfully full and loud, if not hard to explain.  My dh once asked me what I did all day.  I just looked at him and realized that I had been holding my breath.  I said…"I don’t know!"  He said, "Why don’t you try to write it down?"  [...]

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Hands-On Monday

Posted in Diary of a Dieting Family, Family Centered Homeschooling, Games, Living History, Living Math, Making Studies come alive!, Montessori, Notebooking Your Studies, Science, Special Blessings on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Hands-on work today:
Astronomy Science! ….featuring Mercury!Using this as our spine…lesson 3We read thisWe used this p 64-65and we notebooked using these Astronomy pagesWe added the first few pages of this that have great Astronomy pages for our notebooks!  Adding a Solar System detective page for Mercury (p 19)
using Download clip_art_mercury.doc
(images imported to a [...]

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Math Journaling

Posted in Living Math, Notebooking Your Studies on July 26, 2006 | 5 Comments »

I was reading the boards at 4 Real today and came across the question of Math Journaling posed by Dawn of by Sun and Candlelight….once again it was a post that I was already working on, so I polished it up a bit and I will share my answer here.  I hope it is of [...]

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Living Math.

Posted in Living Math on May 16, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Hands- on math is always a big hit here!  Maria Montessori once said in the Absorbent Mind:
"We give opportunities for exploration and discovery
which “open fields full of interest.”
“To explore, one needs to be filled with intellectual interests,
and these it is our business to give.”

We have been using Living math this year and loving it!  It [...]

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