This contains Lily’s and Angie’s fingerprints. We used a bunch of different options for the colors and frame. Lily experimented quite a bit. We call this, Fingerpuffs. She made a second imagine all her own too. She called it, “A Beautiful Sunset”.
STEM, Optics First, Robots Next
After learning about the STEM program at our local university a few weeks ago, I spoke with Lily about her interest and upon her request began the process of trying to get her accepted, given that the requirement was a minimum of 4th grade. As we are not utilizing “grades” and she already meets about […]
That's an Eyeball
http://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/132/You-re-Not-Going-To-Believe-What-You-Are-Looking-At-Actually-What-Is-Looking-At-YOU Lily saw a teaser for this article and immediately identified the image (the first one shown below) as an eye. I was skeptical, but it quickly became evident that she was correct. You’re Not Going To Believe What You Are Looking At… Actually, What Is Looking At YOU Posted on February 19, 2014 / […]
Place Value
We’ve discussed the idea before today, but only loosely and the discussions were irrelevant. Today, she wanted to be able to say a four digit number correctly, so she learned place value to the thousandth position. We are using Mr. R’s Math videos on YT.
Sets of 9
Lily is learning how sets of amounts of numbers work. Today she picked up a trick on her fingers for sets of nine: Hold ten fingers up, start from left to right. Bend the finger that correlates with the number of sets to be multiplied. Then, the amount of fingers on the left of the […]
The Stone Age
In keeping with Eep, we worked on our own cave paintings today. We learned about the El Castillo cave drawings, and how it is believed to be the oldest known example, dating some 40,000 years. This would be caveman era, and the symbols were of hands and sun. We learned how the pigments were created […]