Rowan, His 7th Year in Review
Herbology 1 : Hogwarts Greenhouse One
Kala participated in her first Outschool course today, “Herbology & Magical Plants”. Here’s a recap: I learned about magical plants with many, many uses. We talked about cool plants like the Nightshade. The Nightshade is so pretty, it was used to dilate women’s eyes which used to be considered a beauty standard. As time passed, […]
Cloud Seeding
We have begun our day with a few subjects, ranging from the concept of the kobayashi maru exercise and politics, to the value of independent thought and questioning, to challenging status quo and “how we’ve always done it/thought about it”, to cloud seeding. Warm seeding Cold seeding The question we now have is, if the water […]
Why The Full Moon is Better in Winter
And we read When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year
24 Hour Clock
We started exploring 24 hour format today, which she’s heard of it before, but only slightly. It remains without relevance at this point, but the concept was part of some game she wanted to play, and so she was exposed. Russ will look for an opportunity to bring it into something of interest for Lily. […]
Tidal Forces, Friction, and the Ebb and Flow
Yesterday we were working on our Winter Spiral and while I was finishing up the dailies, looking for ideas on pinterest, a mention of a book came across the screen. So, we looked it up on Amazon and ran through some of the shared/look pages to see what it was all about. I’ll share a […]
NASA is Not Dead
Colton’s visit today prompted quite the exploration, on top of the conversations the kids held. Colton informed us that he’d been educated by his parent that NASA was gone, dead, no longer. I suggested perhaps his comprehension of the statement might be inconclusive: I hoped perhaps he’d heard that the shuttle program had been put […]
Squirrel!
Today we made our squirrel food box. We’ve decided that instead of throwing away our compost-like scraps, we will give them to the squirrels, chipmunks (since we actually had one this summer), and the birds over the winter. So we made a special box that will keep the food dry, and hopefully entice the little […]
Fibonacci, Golden Ratio Exploration Beginning
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