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Crayon Craft for Tactile and Sensory Seeking Children

Ingrid @ March 18, 2012 # 2 Comments

My kids each went through a phase where they would peel and break crayons. When I was a new mother I was slightly appalled at this. I hated coloring with broken crayons as a kid. I found however, that my kids either didn’t care about coloring with broken crayons or they didn’t care about coloring [...]

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Halloween 2010

Ingrid @ November 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet

What I had the good sense to keep track of last week: Sunday We loaf around the house today since we went hiking the day before and it’s chilly outside. The boys are really into pretend play revolving around Naruto. Vic goes out to get last minute costume stuff for Halloween. Kamikaze and Tremendo will [...]

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History With The Well Trained Mind

Ingrid @ February 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet

After three chapters of history following The Well-Trained Mind protocol, I’ve decided to share what I think.  We started with the Ancients as the book recommends.  The basic formula is that you do three hours of history per week.  The book gives you sample schedules of how to divide the reading and narration expected for [...]

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