Something just to share… Yesterday my daughter demonstrated her ability to write every letter. I didn’t know she could do this. I have not taught her. I have given her no worksheets with endless tracings and lines and practice. I don’t even have an app on her tablet (Android OS) that helps with this (thank […]
The Value of the Pen
December 6, 2011 Why Does Writing Make Us Smarter? First Posted: 07/16/11 12:46 PM ET Updated: 09/15/11 06:12 AM ET React Don’t trade in your pencils and paper for a keyboard just yet. A new study that compared the different brain processes used for writing by hand and typing has found that there are cognitive benefits […]
Adding, Subtracting, Grouping, Amounts
Yesterday, Lily lined up 9 babies on three steps, instructed me to sit next to them, got out a pack of addition flash cards (the kind with the answer missing, and a box on slick cards that one can write the answer in), and announced she was going to teach her babies stuff. She proceeded […]
Sooooooooooo, What's Adoption?
I asked her to give me her idea of it first.. Twas an interesting conversation. We continued our discussion… She decided the concept is a good one, and one with which she is already intimately aware! In a manner of speaking, given that our way of thinking is that Russ and Angie were, and then […]
What Do You Wanna Be When You Grow Up?
Taking this from a FB posting… Thierry says to Ray: I have read your comments on someone else’s wall about graphing calculators. I am of a “in between” generation: I have never had a slide rule–too young–and never had a graphing calculator–too old. That being said, I am a geek, and thought at some point […]
P aA P A
She wrote P, then a, and asked if she could make a big A because it is a much better A… So, the second P A followed suit. She shocked us at the end of July demonstrating out of the blue her ability to write Lily. She wrote MAMA sort of about two weeks ago, […]
All About October 18
Lily graced us with the privilege of sharing her memories of both the day she joined us on the outside, and while still inside. She shared many of her memories with me, just me, about 6 months ago. I wrote in detail then what she spoke, as I will now. To date, Lily has seen […]
Singling Bowls
That’s what she thinks it is, anyway. Got this today for $.25 (yes, that was twenty-five cents) at the local thrift! Woohoo! Anyone care to take a gander at the amount of learning, discovery, and development is going on here? Lily has learned to click it, whack it with the mallet, and is trying to […]
Word Construction, Roller Blades, Helping, Ratio, and Headed North?
Yeesh, the last two days have been full! Lily made a new friend yesterday, and today decided to roller blade with them (and the entire run of kids on our street), as well as Russ and I around the neighborhood. She has learned how to have mama on her blades while Lils enjoys a very […]
Flinging Planetary Rings – They Make Great Boomerangs!
We watched a Zula today on the planets and their rings. So, rings are made of ice, dust, and rock… “Mom? Why are the rings stuck around the planet like that? Why don’t the rings orbit on their own? Cecily comprehends gravity well. She also understands the relationship between orbits and gravity, as well as […]