Context Comprehension – Discovering

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, Broadening of Mind, Composition, Comprehension, Note Taking, Context Comprehension, Custom & Social Awareness, Developing Self, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, History, Integrity, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Social Development, Societal Studies, Society & Culture, Understanding Humans' Minds

What is this episode about? What is the general idea discussed? How racism and sexism shape society for the worse. What are the sub-concepts discussed in this episode? Stereotypes, racism, victim blaming, sexism, toxic masculinity. Why do you think this episode was written? Do you see any value in the concepts presented? Explain. Written for […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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Money, Decimal, and a Slew of Other Stuff – Here's Our Day, Today

We revisited the decimal debacle today, from a very different angle. Instead of trying to work with lining up decimals for calculating, we returned to money and her mental calculations followed. First she worked with the image shown below, and then, when I asked her to look at the problem written on the next […]