Custom & Social Awareness

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

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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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Economics, Global History, Government, History, How We Learn Best, Integrity, Invention, Kindness, Lils, Literacy, Music, Physical Development, Physics, Ritual, Societal Studies, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Tradition

The Sleeping Time, Our New Traditions, The Eye of Horus, Little Women, & Advent

We’re embarking on our explorations of the Winter Solstice, Advent time, and how humans have experienced the natural Sleeping Time on our planet over the course of our existence. Last night, we watched the 1994 version of Alcott’s, “Little Women” together. Lily seemed to enjoy it, though it was a bit longer than her attention could […]

A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Economics, History, How We Learn Best, Lils, Political Science, Societal Studies

Female US Presidential Candidates – History

An ongoing discussion on politics, equality, and government… Female US Presidential Candidates Presidential candidates: party nominees[edit] Year Name Party Running Mate Votes Ballot Access 1872 Victoria Woodhull Equal Rights Party Frederick Douglass [1] 0 states 1884 Belva Ann Lockwood National Equal Rights Party Marietta Stow[2] 4,149 6 states [3] 1888 Belva Ann Lockwood […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Dance, Developing Self, Earth Science, Economics, Engineering, Exploration, Fine Motor Skills, Geography, Geometry, Global History, Imagination, Invention, Knowledge Base Expansion, Language, Lils, Literacy, Social Development, Societal Studies

Just Another Day to Cherish

Our yesterday, with the 7 year old: Breakfast over the Lego Movie in Hindi She built a snowcat while watching and eating, I worked on cleaning out our greenhouse/workshop and prepared the yard for the impending freeze. By 11am we were discussing the angles cut into pieces of wood (trim) that I was […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Biology, Botany, Bugz & Her Explorations, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Drawing, Earth Science, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Geometry, History, Imagination, Invention, Language, Lils, Literacy, Math Discoveries, Neurological Development, Physics, Playing, Resources, Responsibility, Science Discoveries, Sculpture, Self Management, Social Development

Minecraft, It Is

This past weekend, we launched our first ever, private Minecraft world that we’re hosting. It’s been offered to a group of young kids from the WLU community and we’ve set it as Creative only. The kids (about 30 of them, ranging from 4 to 15, with all but two of them are under 11) are […]

A Mind Wide Open, Confidence, Custom & Social Awareness, Developing Self, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Neurological Development, Self Awareness, Self Management, Thought Process & Development

Instructions Smuctions

Lately, Lily’s head is a thousand places elsewhere. She is carrying on conversation after conversation with herself and her many enchanted associates. She does well making lists, for which she checks through them as her day progresses. She draws maps, and provides us outline instruction sets of step by step how we are to accomplish […]

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Demonstrating Empathy, Geography, History, Lils, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection

Mummie Me

Ok, well, THAT is what she focused on, as the pyramids were not nearly as cool, until she found out just how tall even the smallest of the pyramids actually are. Thank you Google Earth. We are watching an animated series for Halloween, “Casper’s Scare School”. She has once again identified, or chosen to […]