Imagination – 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, 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, Abstract Comprehension, Broadening of Mind, Business: Management and Development, Developing Self, Economics, Engineering, Exploration, Forming Complex Questions, Imagination, Roe, Self Esteem, Social Development

Rowan AAI Market Day – Planning Session 1

Rowan is preparing to share his business with the kids/group at AAI, as part of the Kids’ Market Day. This session covers most of his planning needs, except some business management logistics and the market day display/space. https://youtu.be/6eM3xhB2_dU

A Mind Wide Open, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Earth Science, Ecology, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Imagination, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Physics, Science Discoveries, Self Esteem, Self Management, Simply Nature

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, […]

A Mind Wide Open, Culture Appreciation, French, Imagination, Language, Lils, Literacy, Playing, Self Esteem, Self Management, Social Development, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Success & Failure

I Love YouTube's New Google Video Bridge

She had her first French lesson with Thierry today… went wonderfully, I am told. She’s already scheduled her next session!

A Mind Wide Open, Anatomy and Physiology, Beautiful Curiosity, Biology, Chemistry, Energy & Motion - Integrated Learning Permanence, How We Learn Best, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Physics

Operation Ouch!

We found a new series on CBBC today, “Operation Ouch!” Lils is loving it! It is actually gross enough I can hardly watch it. Operation Ouch! Operation Ouch! is a British 24-part children’s educational television programme about the human body, it shows what happens in A&E, what doctors sometimes have problems with and great experiments. […]

A Mind Wide Open, How We Learn Best, Imagination, Lils, Literacy, Self Esteem, Storytelling / Recollection, Thought Process & Development, Writing

Storytelling and Book Writing

Lily has written quite a few books, has expressed interest consistently on getting them published and distributed, and we are now looking into the process and she’s learning how she can accomplish exactly what she’s after, and she’s writing more stories. Using this page as a repository for online resources, as well as explorations for […]

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, […]

A Mind Wide Open, Astronomy, Developing Self, How We Learn Best, Imagination, Lils, Simply Nature

Recap of the First Half of Today

Barefoot Five “There are so many other worlds. Sometimes when you hold special rocks, you can hear them.” -Rainbow Wolf, age 6 Angie Nixon “Well, of course”, says Lily, upon seeing this image moments ago, “because rocks come from other worlds.” Info on the planet referenced in title below – Lily is telling Colton (her […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Biology, Bugz & Her Explorations, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Compassion, Conservation, Earth Science, Fine Motor Skills, How We Learn Best, Imagination, Lils, Responsibility, Simply Nature, Stewardship

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 […]