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Dernières images de la classe
(06/12/2007
publié dans : La "classe" au quotidien
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You Are Not Alone ! We now share our classroom with almost a pound of earthworms grandpa dug out of his compost. They all disappeared into the terrarium dirt in a flash never to be seen again. We ... -
Je peins tu peines
(06/12/2007
publié dans : La "classe" au quotidien
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Malgré mon titre, on commence à avoir la peinture bien rodée après plus d'une semaine à en faire quasiment tous les jours. On a troqué les bouchons en plastique pour des vrais verres lourds (du ... -
Trois semaines déjà
(01/12/2007
publié dans : La "classe" au quotidien
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Trois semaines d'école déjà, avec des surprises en tout genre. La bonne surprise: Le petit reste réfractaire sur quelques détails mas dans l'ensemble il accepte et intègre à hauteur de ses ... -
Happy Chanuka-Happy Thanksgiving
(29/11/2007
publié dans : Fêtes et événements
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Un petit soupir de soulagement, car on commence à y voir un peu plus clair dans l'embouteillage d'occasions. Chanuka (orthographes diverses possibles) "ne" commence "que" le 4 décembre, mais comme ... -
Trop (de) chou !
(29/11/2007
publié dans : Fêtes et événements
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Regardez moi cette beauté apportée par une amie maraîchère. C'est une variété très douce qui se mange par excellence crue, mais alors il faudrait être une bonne 20aine pour tout finir ! Autre ... -
Femme volante cherche cookie aquatique
(26/11/2007
publié dans : Réflexions générales
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Ok je ne regorge pas de temps, ça ne va pas être très éloquent ou bien mené. Flylady me paraît être un concept culturel assez important pour en parler ici. Au début ça s'adressait à des personnes ... -
Congés de l'usine et la forêt vierge
(25/11/2007
publié dans : Fêtes et événements
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Merci à toutes et à tous qui ont passé du temps et de l'énergie à faire monter le trafic de mon site cette semaine ! Honnêtement, je pense que leur système est un peu ficelé, ils ont l'air d'avoir ... -
Ca commence à bien rouler
(23/11/2007
publié dans : La "classe" au quotidien
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Finally had a morning to have school in a leisurely manner. Up to now this week had been pretty lightweight. Earlier on I presented the first two touch boards, and am really impressed with how ds ... -
Faire or acheter, zat is zee question !
(21/11/2007
publié dans : Réflexions générales
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I'm always wondering whether I should make or buy a particular Montessori apparatus, but right now I'm asking it even more about other things. At the end of the year we tend both to create more ... -
Ca c'est du (pas très) propre
(21/11/2007
publié dans : Fabrication vie pratique
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I had a terrible time getting myself to finish this. The broom and mop are cut down out of big ones, even the mop fringes and the broom head. Didn't know brooms were made so well, with metal ... -
Des petites nouveautés...
(20/11/2007
publié dans : Réflexions générales
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Vous pouvez maintenant revoir des photos sans les commentaires en résolution décente en allant dans albums dans la colonne de droite. Il y a deux nouvelles pages en construction, également ... -
"Swap" (échange)
(19/11/2007
publié dans : Fêtes et événements
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I had nothing else to do so this year I took a leisurely decision to participate in two holiday swaps. One is pretty personal with exchange of a tradition a recipe and a decoration, and for ... -
La première semaine
(17/11/2007
publié dans : La "classe" au quotidien
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First week of school over, feeling a little more at ease now. I was surprised at how he doesn't mind putting things back. Other big surprise was how much he has to learn just to function in this ... -
Aux côtés de La Plaque
(14/11/2007
publié dans : La "classe" au quotidien
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My ds really loved The Board, got all excited and tried out all his other activities on it. Good thing since the session started with a big tearful bean-spill crisis. He didn't get into the gluing ... -
Pas d'école "bessonière" chez nous
(12/11/2007
publié dans : La "classe" au quotidien
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Our first session lasted almost 1 ½ hours and went really well. He marked the calendar and then we started with 3 songs- one each in English, French, and Spanish. Worked more on handling books and ... -
Aménagement suite et fin et pas trop tôt
(12/11/2007
publié dans : Organisation & Aménagement
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Tomorrow we start school officially and I've been so worried about material that I'd forgotten about cleaning up ! So that's what today was made of. Plus here are some pix of what we've done to ... -
Le temps qui court, qui colle, qui scotche...
(10/11/2007
publié dans : Organisation & Aménagement
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We made a timeline for the year. The project kept getting more and more complicated, with seasons, months, days, icons, lots and lots of cutting and taping and glueing. Then I hated leaving the ... -
Répét générale/Dress rehearsal
(10/11/2007
publié dans : Organisation & Aménagement
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Yesterday, little one gone off to see one of his older fiancées, I got a chance to pull everything out of hidden corners to see how we'll fit it onto our school shelves. Pretty scary. Big huge ... -
Plier et couper
(07/11/2007
publié dans : Fabrication vie pratique
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Rattrapage encore, je présente des serviettes à plier avec des lignes de pliage tracées avec une couture. 1. un diagonal - que deux coins à aligner 2. diagonal en 4 - 2 pliages donc 3. horizontal ... -
Tâtonnements artistiques
(07/11/2007
publié dans : Geo & culture
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Since I’ve got enough basic sensorial and practical to start off (only 6 days til 1 st day of school !!!) I’m wondering about other things. Obviously I don’t have to supply a total environment as ... -
Barres rouges et bleues
(06/11/2007
publié dans : Maths
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Gotta catch up now that virtual camping is over and we have a new machine. Was not even loading my emails there for a few days for fear someone would send me a photograph and break the camel’s ... -
Happy Halloween
(01/11/2007
publié dans : Fêtes et événements
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Between trying to get school up and running and my mom’s visit I hadn’t planned any Halloween this year but it caught up with me anyway and they were 2 babies and 4 toddlers to eat drink and be ... -
Musique mensonges et propagande
(01/11/2007
publié dans : Extracurricular
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We used our ds's obsession with Manu Chao to get him to go back to his music class. Everybody knows that MC and Bob Marley learned to play there ! Now it's grown into a real obsession that I guess ... -
Inspirations et idées d'ailleurs
(04/10/2007
publié dans : Réflexions sur Montessori
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Besides Gettman's book, Meg's work at first link below has probably been my one single most important resource and inspiration. While I'm at it, I'd like to mention Little Pea Princess at the ... -
Matériel que je prévois por la géographie
(04/10/2007
publié dans : Geo & culture
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I'm counting on presenting a lot of geography and land and water things, pretty much from the beginning just after basic sensorial. I know, depending on which Montessori faction you listen to, ... -
Liste de notre vie pratique très modulable
(03/10/2007
publié dans : Vie pratique
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Practical life exercises I'm hoping to set up. Déjà pour tout ce qui est entretien de l'environnent on va avoir un jour désigné où on fait un peu de ménage-entretien en fonction de ses capacités, ... -
Début du matériel vie pratique
(03/10/2007
publié dans : Fabrication vie pratique
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We've had so many playdates and outings and dentists' appointments that things aren't going along very fast - the math rods have been half painted in the garage for days. Since my last material ... -
Sit down, shut up, and play the piano
(03/10/2007
publié dans : Extracurricular
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After calling all over to see what was available for 3 yr olds, we've got two extracurricular activities this year. One is beginning acting, a class with big ambitions about "occupying the stage" ... -
On s'ennuie terriblement !
(01/10/2007
publié dans : Réflexions générales
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So bored we don't know what to do …all going along at breakneck speed, multiple playdates and all-day outings, feel so sorry for poor baby who never sees any other children. Good news is that the ... -
Petite production grands pas
(30/09/2007
publié dans : Fabrication sensoriel
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The factory is in a big uproar because the manager is always out and the staff is tired of working night shifts. We've still managed to finish up the tactile tablets, bag for the red rods, the ... -
For our English-speaking visitors
(28/09/2007
publié dans : I speak English
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I've been blogging in French, since we live in France, buy our art supplies in French stores, and need to network primarily with other French homeschoolers and Montessori fans - the few there are! ... -
Ponce-moi : du papier verre et les dernières réalisations
(26/09/2007
publié dans : Fabrication sensoriel
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Aye there's the rub! Even tho' I haven't had much time in the last three days I did some quick stuff like the touch boards and also prepared the squares for tactile tablets. These were fast ... -
Ce qu'on fait quand l'usine est fermée
(26/09/2007
publié dans : Réflexions générales
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(when the factory's closed) Sunday is no-noise day in rural France, so no woodhacking outside. Sound carries even when you've got space and the quieter neighborhood is, the more easily people are ... -
Avec Montessori, je positive !
(22/09/2007
publié dans : Réflexions générales
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Good thing my husband supports/participates in my decision to homeschool because outside the house it's not always so easy. And I'm so oversensitive to people's words, even though basically I may ... -
Fabrication barres rouges
(22/09/2007
publié dans : Fabrication sensoriel
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I bought some really nice wood for my red rods so they were more expensive than they would have had to be. I cut the lengths at the same time for the red and blue ones. My rods are not exactly 25 ... -
Fabrication sacs stéréognostiques
(22/09/2007
publié dans : Fabrication sensoriel
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The stereognostic bags were like a breath of fresh air after the ordeal of the cylinders. For anybody with a sewing machine and fabric scraps these are cheap and easy to make. For a long time I ... -
Fabrication cylindres couleur
(22/09/2007
publié dans : Fabrication sensoriel
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I don't feel as some apparently do that the colored cylinders are superfluous if you have the cylinder blocks (I bought those). In one case you are looking at the object in elation to its ... -
Peintures sur bois
(22/09/2007
publié dans : Fabrication sensoriel
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Wood is such a pain; just when you think your work is finished it starts. Sand plane paint sand again and paint again. What do all these wonderfully creative people do to their towers and rods for ... -
Fabrication tablettes des couleurs
(21/09/2007
publié dans : Fabrication sensoriel
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Color tablets: I made mine with laminated paper paint samples glued on little bits of wood I cut off a small planed wood strip. Shame I only found 5 shades of each color, but I cut out enough wood ... -
Ma liste de matériel sensoriel
(21/09/2007
publié dans : Sensoriel
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This is my list of sensorial stuff I'm hoping to have quickly operational. It's mostly Gettman based but I've added and subtracted a few things. I bought quite a few works off a really cheap site ...
Mon site de vente
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