Cecily launched herself into the realm of og, ug, ag in, un, an, and FROG, TREE, FREE, and other 4 letter words today. And to think, just yesterday I was commenting on a current assessment that she hadn’t yet developed a comprehension that spanned greater than 3 letters. WELL…….. THAT was yesterday. We used the […]
Freed to Think
Contribution Five aspects of Paulo Freire’s work have a particular significance for our purposes here. First, his emphasis on dialogue has struck a very strong chord with those concerned with popular and informal education. Given that informal education is a dialogical (or conversational) rather than a curricula form this is hardly surprising. However, Paulo Freire […]
Friction, Fly Eyeballs, and Staring Contests
Today Lily learned that flies don’t have teeth. She also learned they spit on solid food to make it turn into a liquid, because their tongues are like straws. Flies don’t have stingers either, but Hobo Spiders bite. She was a Pest Investigator (see website – http://www.pestworldforkids.org/index.html ) We played all the games, which gave […]
A & T, Last Tuesday
On May 17, Cecily’s ability to read and build words solidified. While she is still developing an awareness and knowledge base of many of the letter combinations (since English is so straight forward, after all), she is demonstrating a reliable and solid comprehension of the concept of word construction, sound, parts of a word (at […]
Hair and Good Mornings
This morning, Lily awoke on her own and promptly began working on a project. Russ will upload in a bit. She picked out all the pieces and expertly placed them in her hair, both sides of her head, and on her jacket pocket. It took her about 15 minutes, during which she didn’t tell either […]
Assessing
Assessment Versus Testing Before discussing the benefits of having your child assessed, let me first be clear on the distinction between “assessment” and “testing.” Testing is typically one aspect of a complete assessment. It can include any one of a number of intelligence tests from group administered to individual (preferred), and it, generally results in […]
Profoundly Profound
Yep. And translucent essences too… We are in Denver, staying at an extended stay hotel while Russ works in Castle Rock this week and next. We have a 650sq ft 1 bedroom apartment, in which we are maintaining a dog, turtle, two adults, two violins, a guitar (mini size), three, no four computers, Rover, a […]
Dreams
Lily popped into our room this morning with a smile! Up on the bed, she announced, “I had a most wonderful dream!” I asked her to tell me a bit about it and she stated that it was just a yucky dream but then got better, and was most wonderful. Sometimes she will recall a […]
How to Keep Your Tiara in Place
And if that gets tiring… She made a house for the resident fairies this day…
It's 33 and 5 O'clock!
Bugs is telling us the time… her way. She’s finally starting to distinguish between the time and temperature on the thermostat too. Identification of the hour is standard, and she discerns the minutes from the hour just fine. Often, she associates an activity with the physical time stating, “What is it the time for?”, or […]