The art and heart of homeschooling
~In honor of the third blogoversary of Hodgepodge this month, I’ll be occasionally posting favorites from the archives. This one, from August 2007, was written a year before blogging… The Many Adventures of a 21-month-old Since the early a.m. I have: dumped out the contents of the electric pencil sharpener and decorated my legs with the pencil shavings… drawn on big sister’s Math page with
Lemon Bars by five-year-old! Nana came across this simple and delicious recipe from Practically Living. A boxed cake mix and a can of lemon pie filling? Practical to keep on hand for the Cook Box! Get your chef hat if you’d like. Great for stirring action! (Thank you, Nana). Bake in a 9×13 pan. Dust with powdered sugar if you’d like. Click over to Practically
I told you that our youngest daughter gives us lots of material to share. Last fall, our then just-turned two-year-old came to me as I was changing baby brother. She had that glowingly proud look on her face. “I washed the cat!” she said. “Oh, really?” I asked.”What did you wash him with?” “Soap!” she said. I asked her to show me. I was very
When she asks to help, I say yes. And she does it all on her own. She counts out the pieces of store-bought bread. Enough for us all plus a few extras for seconds. She gets the butter and slices it up. One fold. Then she stacks them all on a dinner plate. Less than a minute in the microwave on reheat (or 50 percent
In her own words… My little brother is a good brother because he helped me lose my first tooth. I was pretending to be a dog and putting a washcloth in my mouth. And he pulled it out of my mouth as hard as he could! That’s how my tooth got loose and started to bleed. “He’s really a great brother!” I tried eating an
