Copied in from FB because I don’t have enough time to retype tonight, as Lily has declared the “period of a human’s life” is too short to spend typing. She asked me this morning what a ‘period of time’ was. Lily and I want to know, were we to convert light years into distance (yes, […]
Bioluminescence.
Lily asks, “Why is Neptune blue?” Neptune’s atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane. The methane in Neptune’s upper atmosphere absorbs the red light from the sun but reflects the blue light from the sun back into space. This is why Neptune appears blue. “Ok, why do the phytoplankton light up?” Well, says the mother […]
Why Do We Breathe?
This morning on our way to Alamosa, for which Russ was for once present to witness, Lily asked one of her more involved questions. Today it was, “Why do we breathe?”. Suffice it to say, my initial response of “well, surviv…”. “Yes, I know it’s necessary for our survival.”, a somewhat annoyed 6 year old retorts. “What I […]
Birds Like Peanut Butter??
We’ve been slowly getting back into our home school co-op rhythm this month. Two weeks ago only a few people were able to come, and we mostly just built castles and drew pictures. Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course. Last week I was inspired to tell one of my favorite winter […]
Instructions Smuctions
Lately, Lily’s head is a thousand places elsewhere. She is carrying on conversation after conversation with herself and her many enchanted associates. She does well making lists, for which she checks through them as her day progresses. She draws maps, and provides us outline instruction sets of step by step how we are to accomplish […]
States
This interface and activity seemed to be one that Lily found enjoyable, as she continued of her own doing through the entire list. Rhode Island stumped her… as did the Carolina’s and a few others, but all in all, I’d say she had a fairly decent awareness (directly knew where) of about 60% of the […]
States
This interface and activity seemed to be one that Lily found enjoyable, as she continued of her own doing through the entire list. Rhode Island stumped her… as did the Carolina’s and a few others, but all in all, I’d say she had a fairly decent awareness (directly knew where) of about 60% of the […]
Zapata!
What does Zapata mean? Ah, so that’s what it looks like not frozen! I’ve never been there when it was wet. We have joined our friends in creating the first ever, for us, anyway – Nature Explorer’s Club This first event was a trip to Zapata Falls The vision for the club is simple […]