I’ve decided that to best keep track of my own mind, as well as attempt to record the finer points of Lily’s development and her day, that I really have to just leave a post window open all day long. I see it, I write, I add pics, whatever… Today began with Lily showing us […]
Quantum Leaping, Roof Raising, Laser Guided Pooping Machines
This morning we began with some wacked out sentences on the fridge, which included flying pigeons with laser guided poop devices. These sentences are made out of English, French, and Spanish words, randomly thrown together. Is this a logical way of learning sentence structure in a language other than English? No. It does generate vocabulary […]
Finger Puffs
This contains Lily’s and Angie’s fingerprints. We used a bunch of different options for the colors and frame. Lily experimented quite a bit. We call this, Fingerpuffs. She made a second imagine all her own too. She called it, “A Beautiful Sunset”.
STEM, Optics First, Robots Next
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 / […]
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 […]
States
This interface and activity seemed to be one that Lily found enjoyable, as she continued of her own doing through the entire list. Rhode Island stumped her… as did the Carolina’s and a few others, but all in all, I’d say she had a fairly decent awareness (directly knew where) of about 60% of the […]
States
This interface and activity seemed to be one that Lily found enjoyable, as she continued of her own doing through the entire list. Rhode Island stumped her… as did the Carolina’s and a few others, but all in all, I’d say she had a fairly decent awareness (directly knew where) of about 60% of the […]