July 27, 2026

Category: Construction

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Astronomy, Beautiful Curiosity, Broadening of Mind, CDE Standards Reference, Construction, Context Comprehension, Creative Solution Generation, Engineering, How We Learn Best, Knowledge Base Expansion, Language, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Movement & Coordination, Pattern Recognition, Physics, Playing, Questions from Lily's Brain

Grandparents, Gravity, Goodies, and Dessine

Will complete this entry when I have the mind to get all the images together.   Tinker Crate with Grandpa – they did the fiber optics constellations and the defy gravity game Grandpa tuned the piano and Lily has become fascinated with not only playing but watching the mechanics. Today she stated she’s going to […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Developing Self, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Fraction, How We Learn Best, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Playing

Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included

She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft.     Images posted in reverse order of completion  

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Developing Self, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Fraction, How We Learn Best, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Playing

Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included

She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft.     Images posted in reverse order of completion  

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A Mind Wide Open, Art, Beautiful Curiosity, Bugz & Her Explorations, Construction, Engineering, Forming Complex Questions, History, How We Learn Best, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Look for Learning, Physics

The Camera: All Because Lily Asked

Lily asked about the first “camera”… we learned about the history of the photographic creator, and are trying to create our own representation that we can then manually trace the image to preserve. Camera obscura An artist using an 18th-century camera obscura to trace an image Photographic cameras were a development of the camera obscura, […]

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The Table of Elements
A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Construction, Earth Science, History, How We Learn Best, Invention, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Math Discoveries, Pattern Recognition, Physics, Questions from Lily's Brain, Science Discoveries, Simply Nature, Societal Studies

The Table of Elements

While we’ve discovered 118 elements in the physical world, there are 25 (or so) Minecraft elements. This is the beginning of our exploration.       Elements as Building Blocks The periodic table is organized like a big grid. Each element is placed in a specific location because of its atomic structure. As with any […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Botany, Chemistry, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Earth Science, Economics: Global, Engineering, Geography, Global History, Government, History, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Questions from Lily's Brain, Resources, Responsibility

She Asked… Oil

She asked about oil, where it comes from and how it gets processed so we can use it in cars, etc.. We have spent most of today exploring how crude oil has formed, how it is extracted, refined, and finally delivered for our consumption. We’ve also talked about fracking for natural gas, the uses of […]

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