March 2015 – Discovering

A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Math Discoveries

To Be, or… Maybe Not So – Mathmatically

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/5-year-olds-can-learn-calculus/284124/ Reviewing standards, working with equations lately as their relevance appears in our daily activities, wanting to find some tools, activities, making/doing things to bring awareness to patterns

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Earth Science, Ecology, Economics, Engineering, Global History, History, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Playing, Thought Process & Development

Titanic, Hindenburg, H2O, and Plasma

We began our day talking about H2O, then discussed the Titanic, then the Hindenburg, then Mark Twain, then helium, then steam and how the Titanic was powered, which led to evaporation and the water cycle, and how snow is formed. We then studied snow under the microscope, and then onto the Plasma ball and conductivity. […]

A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Exploration, Fine Motor Skills, Geography, Imagination, Lils, Societal Studies

Terra in 2D

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, CDE Standards Reference, Cosmology, Creative Solution Generation, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Math Discoveries, Numeracy, Playing, Science Discoveries, Self Esteem, Storytelling / Recollection, Theoretical Physics

A Googol & A Light Year – That's How Big

Yesterday and today… We’ve been playing with the abacus, learning about the Orders of Magnitude (what we call each major transition in numbers, as they increase exponentially), and multiplication via sets thanks to a few beads on sticks. Yesterday, we talked about how, with each added zero, we increase the size/amount of the number. She’s […]