Dewey's Treehouse

Someone found our Treehouse by searching for "squirrel reading." Well, Dewey (like the rest of us) is often found with a book (wh...

Someone found our blog by searching for "do squirrels like hot chili powder?" Dewey says: "Only with refried beans and some ...

Tim Fredrick's ELA Teaching Blog has an excellent post about classroom teachers who are hung up on teaching to standards (or feel they...

Another post from Karen Edmisten , who's been following Amyable's CM postings . Karen notes, "For example, when we read about...

Well, I had my voice lessons yesterday...the teacher is quite nice and I had fun. She told me I had to bring two things next week: 1) A blan...

There are times when it's very nice to have the Internet handy--to be able to search quickly for something you really need to know, like...

1. Met Coffeemamma and three of the Blue Castle progeny in the park, along with another Ambleside Online mamma and her family. It was so n...

I don't know if I'm *supposed* to be doing this, but I figured it couldn't hurt. It sounded fun. :-D 5 things in my refrigerat...

Finished: 1. The Talisman, by Sir Walter Scott. Heads will roll. Ewww... But it was an excellent story--knights and honour and chivalry an...

News from the carnival: The NerdFamily is hosting this week, but NerdMom has been under the weather, so it will be posted as soon as she i...

The Five Things part is a meme that the Deputy Headmistress sent our way. Cooking by the Campfire comes at the end, so hold on. 5 Things i...

The novels of Sir Walter Scott were so familiar and important to the educator Charlotte Mason that she not only included them in term prog...

A Century of Kindergarten Education in Ontario , by Barbara Corbett (from the library) "In it, Dr. Corbett discusses the history and is...

Happy Birthday to all 3,114 of you (and you know who you are). We are firing a salute in celebration. (Hold your ears.)

,Equuschick at The Common Room posted her version of this ABC meme. Athena wrote one too. Here's Mama Squirrel's. A - Accent: Sou...

The last day of Treehouse classes (we still have exams next week). This week is full of finishings. The Apprentice finished Fearfully and Wo...

I thought Mr. Fixit and the Squirrelings might identify with this post on Ask Patty ("Automotive advice on car buying, selling, mai...

We stopped at a yard sale this morning and I saw a small set of Sculpey coloured clay in a container of miscellaneous craft junk. I took i...

Crayons stuck some stickers all over a piece of construction paper, and told me that each sticker was one place on the map: Russia, Austral...

Just an update: I added two photos to our Lion Safari story.