Posted in It Happened This Month on Feb 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
From the History Channel, This Day in History:
February 23, 1945 - U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima
Josh has begun studying WWII in depth and so this entry was especially interesting to him. A few weeks ago, Josh, his dad and I, went to a viewing of Letters from Iwo Jima.
Almost a 3 hour movie, it […]
Posted in nature, musings on Feb 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
One word that seems to sum up life around our house right now. Even in times like this though learning continues. Today: geography, earth science, politics, and ethics all from just this one article, Behold the Incredidible Shrinking Colorado River.
Important issues. We live in Las Vegas. Thus, issues important to us.
Posted in curriculum on Feb 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
This morning Josh and I finished our Math read aloud, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. What an amazing book! There is so much wisdom and insight in this book that both Josh and I agreed that we will definitely re-read it sometime in the future.
I have been contemplating the following passage all day:
“You must […]
Posted in curriculum on Feb 3rd, 2007 5 Comments »
When planning for the year, I decided to include other aspects of Math in our daily studies. These included: reading of fiction books with a math theme (our current math read aloud is The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster), discovering people in the mathematics field and reading biographies of them (this is a […]
