Jun

29

Design Your Own Board Game

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June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

My family and I love board games.  Today we played “Guess Who,” “Muppets Monopoly” and the anniversay edition of “Cranium.”  As much as we love our Pictionaries, Trivial Pursuits, and Chess boards, we sometimes hunger for something completely different.  And that’s when the girls and I get inventive.  We make up our own board game.  [...]

Jun

17

When the Kids Are Away It’s Not Time To Play

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June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

My wife and kids have traveled north to visit relatives.  They’ve been gone for about three days, and they won’t get back until Monday.  What have I been doing with the family out of the house?  Here’s a sample:

Ordered a Costco Pizza (my primary food source)
Started teaching a summer class
Wrote and revised an old play

Basically, [...]

Jun

13

Lemonade Math

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June 13, 2009 | 1 Comment

Even though summer has arrived, my wife and I do not plan to slow down our children’s learning activities.  We might, however, make many of our lessons less traditional.  Summer at our house isn’t really the time to tell the kids, “Sit at the kitchen table and finish your multiplication.”  (Actually, we rarely do that [...]

Jun

10

Time to Organize, Purge, and Rediscover

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June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment

We have way too much stuff at our house.  We’re not terribly materialistic.  (Living on a teacher’s salary, we can’t afford to be.)  The stuff that clutters our house isn’t high tech computers and gadgets. It’s not fancy sculptures our previous collectibles.
Instead, our shelves are deducated to the following:

Books
Educational toys
Art supplies
More books
Maps and charts
Science kits
Math [...]

Jun

4

Roller Coaster Science

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June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

My girls and I visited Disneyland yesterday. Despite the fact that it’s the beginning of June, the park was not too crowded, and we went opn all of the ride we love.
My daughters have finally become daring enough that they now enjoy roller coasters. And since my ten-year-old has recently developed an interest [...]