A Mind Wide Open – Discovering

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, Decimal, Developing Self, Economics, How We Learn Best, Knowledge Base Expansion, Math Discoveries, Mental Arithmetic Processing, Pattern Recognition, Percentage, Roe

Pattern Minds

My son finds the reasons for calculations-we don’t have to offer or come up with opportunities for practice. He also determines his item methods for calculation, asking for help when something is elusive. We have given all our kids Base 10 from the beginning, and this definitely informs how they calculate, especially in their heads. […]

A Mind Wide Open, Anatomy and Physiology, Archaeology, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Broadening of Mind, Business: Management and Development, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, Care & Nurture, Chemistry, Compassion, Composition, Confidence, Construction, Context Comprehension, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Dance, Demonstrating Empathy, Developing Self, Drawing, Earth Science, Em, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Energy & Motion - Integrated Learning Permanence, Engineering, English, Equivalents, Exploration, Fine Motor Skills, Forming Complex Questions, Fraction, Geography, Geometry, History, Imagination, Inspiration, Knowledge Base Expansion, Literacy, Math Discoveries, Mental Arithmetic Processing, Movement & Coordination, Music, Pattern Recognition, Physical Development, Physics, Playing, Reasoning, Responsibility, Rhythm & Motion, Risk, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Self Management, Simply Nature, Social Development, States of Matter, Success & Failure, Travel, Writing

Emori, Her 6th Year in Review

A Mind Wide Open, Algebra, Anatomy and Physiology, Archaeology, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Broadening of Mind, Business: Management and Development, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Compassion, Composition, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Decimal, Developing Self, Earth Science, Economics, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Energy & Motion - Integrated Learning Permanence, Engineering, English, Equivalents, Exploration, Forming Complex Questions, Fraction, Geography, Geometry, Government, History, Imagination, Invention, Math Discoveries, Mental Arithmetic Processing, Music, Physics, Reasoning, Responsibility, Risk, Roe, Rowan's Development, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Self Management, Simply Nature, Social Development, States of Matter, Success & Failure, Theoretical Physics, Travel, Values Associated with Placement

Rowan, His 7th Year in Review

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Broadening of Mind, Business: Management and Development, Developing Self, Economics, Engineering, Exploration, Forming Complex Questions, Imagination, Roe, Self Esteem, Social Development

Rowan AAI Market Day – Planning Session 1

Rowan is preparing to share his business with the kids/group at AAI, as part of the Kids’ Market Day. This session covers most of his planning needs, except some business management logistics and the market day display/space. https://youtu.be/6eM3xhB2_dU

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Broadening of Mind, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Empathic Awareness, From the Mama

RUMI

COMMUNICATION METHODS From a paper written by Tim Buckley “Narcissism,” NVC’s founder Marshall Rosenberg would say, “is a diagnosis.” The thought: “He’s a narcissist” creates separation between me (the judge) and you (the object.) As soon as those thoughts enter our minds – good and bad, right and wrong – we are knocking at moral […]

A Mind Wide Open, History, Lils, Physics, Science Discoveries, Theoretical Physics, Women in History

Cecilia Payne

Cecilia Payne and the Composition of the Stars Cecilia Payne (1900–1979) Payne began a long project to measure the absorption lines in stellar spectra She showed that the wide variation in stellar spectra is due mainly to the different ionization states of the atoms and hence different surface temperatures of the stars, not the different […]

A Mind Wide Open, Broadening of Mind, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, History, Lils

Zitkala-Sa

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Broadening of Mind, Composition, Lils, Music, Neurological Development, Pattern Recognition, Societal Studies, Storytelling / Recollection

Mozart

PBS Documentary, Mozart’s life Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father, Leopold Mozart, both played and composed music. As well as his older sister, Maria Anna Mozart. Mozart lived in the Classical Period. He was born in 1756 and died 1791. His full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Mozart had six children, only two […]

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Astronomy, Lils

Solar Storms : The Hiccup of Society

https://youtu.be/85-p9EIEVUA What causes, or what’s happening at sun spots? (Find an image to include, or a short video, copy in the url.) Geomagnetic energy was so abundant that telegraph operators were able to send messages without being plugged into their batteries. What year was this event recorded, and what did they call it? What is […]

A Mind Wide Open, Eastern European History, Geography, History, Lils, Political Science, World History

Byzantine Empire, in Brief

Using “A History of Eastern Europe” as a beginning exploration