by jessicaperkins | Jul 10, 2015 | Broken wings, butterfly, homeschool, natural science, nature, Spring, unschool
I came out into the lanai to find my three little explorers huddled together looking at something. A butterfly. Limping around in a circle. Unable to fly. Three children rooting it on, despite watching it go nowhere for the past 15 minutes. Hopeful it would...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 23, 2015 | aluminum foil, build, construct, dam, homeschool, outside, river, science, Spring, water play
I was delighted to wake up to the sunshine and bright blue skies today. Nowhere to go. Home. Well, at our cousin’s house visiting, but “home” for the day. I love these laid back, pajamified mornings where we take our time eating, dressing, and...
by jessicaperkins | Mar 25, 2014 | gardening, homeschool, learning, make a match, mamamayi, montessori, planting, sensory bin, Spring, vegetable, vegetables
Spring has sprung and, although colder outside than I would like, we are feeling pretty spring inside our house right now.Before I went to bed last night I prepared an invitation to “garden” sensory bin for the girls to find in the morning. I used black...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 8, 2011 | bug, bugs, counting, hands on learning, home school, homeschool, ladybug, learning, manipulatives, math, mathematics, numbers, numerals, Spring, teaching, theme, tot school, totschool
I made these for one of our bug themed learning centers. Buga has a really good sense for numbers for a three year old and this reinforces one-to-one ratios, counting, and numeral recognition.
by jessicaperkins | May 18, 2011 | business, counting, directions, flower, homeschool, math, natural play, numbers, pretend, role play, shop, sorting, Spring, store, theme, tot school
Our Spring Time theme certainly brought out the flowers! We have been reading a lot of stories about gardens, flowers, and colors. We have also been watching the flowers bloom around us. When I bought a rainbow of flowers for Buga’s sensory bin I made sure to...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 18, 2011 | cooking, craft, dessert, dirt, food, kitchen, project, pudding, recipe, Spring, theme, tot school
In our Spring unit we have been doing a lot of work with bugs, worms, dirt, compost, etc. One rainy day I was looking for something to do with Buga and remembered this recipe from my childhood and thought it would be appropriate for our Spring theme….not to...
