Drawing – 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, Algebra, CDE Standards Reference, Drawing, Economics, Geometry, How We Learn Best, Lils, Math Discoveries, Numeracy, Societal Studies, Thought Process & Development

We have been trying to ascertain where Lily’s comprehension of a few foundational mathematical aspects are, in order to have an idea of some upcoming activities and explorations. She seems to really enjoy Odd Squad and Peg+Cat still, and has gained some relevant and important understanding of concepts from these shows. 1) Rounding: She understands […]

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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 […]

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The Year She's Carved Out

This is the first year Lils has had refined enough motor skills to manage the various tools necessary to carve a pumpkin independently. How excited she was yesterday, and again today, as she got to tell her friend all about her carving adventure. Last night she came bopping down the stairs, pumpkin in arms, lit and […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Artistry, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Developing Self, Drawing, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Imagination, Language, Lils, Literacy, Playing, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Storytelling / Recollection, Writing

Cecily, the Author

Watch out MO!! Lily’s on the trail! – Rebecca Lily decided yesterday, after playing the Stickman game (browser version), to write her first book, “A Big Hotdog”! Today, she wrote her second book, “A Mermaid”. Both are of her “Stickman” series.

A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Construction, Drawing, Engineering, Imagination, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Physics, Sculpture, Self Esteem

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”.

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Birds Like Peanut Butter??

We’ve been slowly getting back into our home school co-op rhythm this month. Two weeks ago only a few people were able to come, and we mostly just built castles and drew pictures. Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course. Last week I was inspired to tell one of my favorite winter […]

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Horses, Seatbelts, London, & Teenagehood

This past weekend, Labor Day 2013, Lily had a few firsts she found much delight and enjoyment experiencing. _________________________________________________________________________________________ First, we spent most of the week in Red River and so she got to ride her bike all over a town she’d never ridden in before. She rode solo and attached to me, and got […]

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Day Names

Bugz has decided she wants to know about the days of the week. The manner in which she will ask for the day’s name sometimes leads to very strange responses from Russ and I. As a result of how she frames the question, for a while, she sort of believed us that instead of the […]