Lils is diving into the Stack the Countries game, which not only focuses on global location/geogrpahy, but also political facts, information, languages, and customs. For every 8 or so questions she answers accurately, she is awarded another country across the globe. So far, she has about 20 countries, giving her at least one within every continent. […]
Why The Full Moon is Better in Winter
And we read When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year
Operation Ouch!
We found a new series on CBBC today, “Operation Ouch!” Lils is loving it! It is actually gross enough I can hardly watch it. Operation Ouch! Operation Ouch! is a British 24-part children’s educational television programme about the human body, it shows what happens in A&E, what doctors sometimes have problems with and great experiments. […]
See You Next Year
Lily is more willing to read out loud now than she has been before. Her voice often doesn’t exude enthusiasm or confidence, but she does infuse her reading with feeling and expression. Lily read this book to me today. I picked it up last time we were in Denver, thinking it might be relevant, and […]
Inventions
This is what we’re exploring this week… commons.wikimedia.org / Via Hannah Jewell 1. The car heater lib.muohio.edu Magnus Manske via commons.wikimedia.org(8516891322).jpg The first car heater, which directed air from over the engine to warm the chilly toes of aristocratic 19th-century motorists, was invented by Margaret A. Wilcox in 1893. She also invented a combined clothes […]
Russ, We Might Make Humans Like This!
Today, I’m taking in the article posted below, as well as that which can be found at these links: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-math-equations-that-change-way-you-see-world/ http://sandradodd.com/math/ https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/0502/zen_and_the_art_of_unschooling_math.htm FROM THE DECEMBER 2013 ISSUE Everything in the Universe Is Made of Math – Including You In this excerpt from his new book, Max Tegmark proposes that our reality isn’t […]
Let the Wondering Begin
An hour later… “What’s the rarest thing in the world?” “What’s the rarest thing in the universe?” “What’s the rarest species on earth?” “What’s the most common species on earth?” “What’s THAT?” and so our day of exploration continues.. while she plays Minecraft.
MinutePhysics
Our new favorite site and Youtube channel: MinutePhysics Today, so far, we’ve watched all the following videos. She’s now playing Minecraft, and I get to sit back and wait until she starts regurgitating what we’ve just watched. This is one of the most enjoyable aspects of educating her as we do – being present when, after […]
Milk?
“Who’s that!?”, inquires Lily of the image in today’s Google Doodle. “MLK? Milk?” I explain her initials spell CAN, and these initials belong to a man named Martin. “He was a man who had a family and a mission”, I tentatively begin to explain. We then talk about what a mission is and how she […]
Decimals and Their Equivalents
This post goes to, and is filed with tags related to focus, attention, frustration, and the simple concept that unless we begin to condition our youngest ones from the very beginning to be willing to comply with the forced parameters we tend to identify with conventional schooling, it seems attempting to integrate even a small […]