I’ve encouraged Lily to work on typing skills… We are presently going through this program: hhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#zgkpn39 She’s bored. I described my 8th grade Keyboarding class, 1st period, already knowing how to type, with Mr. DRONE-n-SLEEP. Literally, he’d tell us to sit, cover our hands, flip to page, get through page, and then he’d sit and drink […]
Cloud Seeding
We have begun our day with a few subjects, ranging from the concept of the kobayashi maru exercise and politics, to the value of independent thought and questioning, to challenging status quo and “how we’ve always done it/thought about it”, to cloud seeding. Warm seeding Cold seeding The question we now have is, if the water […]
Modding is Hotdogs
Meet the Emotionutties Today, we started using Code Studio… Minecraft was our first project. This is her initial intro to Blockly. This is what the blocks of code look like when shown in text. My mom types faster so she’s going to type what I say to write. I made a dinner plate with […]
Programming, Continued
Lils is using Khan to learn Javascript. She wants to make a mod for Minecraft that includes her favorite little green alien, Om Nom. We’ve worked on this for a couple days now, and she’s decided to pull out her Chromebook and work on programming and creating independently. First are some shots of what she […]
Learning Javascript – Making My Om Nom Mod
Algeria, Texas, Scale, Ratio, and the United States-Faster
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 […]