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 […]
M82, Lightyear Distances, and Warp Speed
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 […]