July 27, 2026

Category: Fine Motor Skills

A Mind Wide Open, Data Input Skills, Developing Self, Fine Motor Skills, Investing Energy - Uninstant Gratification, Lils

Let the Complaining Begin…

I’ve encouraged Lily to work on typing skills… We are presently going through this program: hhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#zgkpn39 She’s bored. I described my 8th grade Keyboarding class, 1st period, already knowing how to type, with Mr. DRONE-n-SLEEP. Literally, he’d tell us to sit, cover our hands, flip to page, get through page, and then he’d sit and drink […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Developing Self, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Fraction, How We Learn Best, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Playing

Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included

She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft.     Images posted in reverse order of completion  

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Developing Self, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Fraction, How We Learn Best, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Playing

Division and Divisons of Devised and Designated Digits, With Some Knots Included

She’s inventing a new kind of knitting, it’s called, ‘”The Freedom Knit” because you can make it up yourself. You can do it however you want; whatever way you can find that works.” She’s making me something super soft.     Images posted in reverse order of completion  

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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 […]

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LED Robots
A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Developing Self, Earth Science, Electricity & Circuitry, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Imagination, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Physics, Science Discoveries

LED Robots

Today we built two robots and gave them sight!  Lily worked on this project as her first project selection from her Tinkercrate and we had a great experience. She and I read through the directions, she assembled the components, and we set to work placing resistors, LED’s, and copper taping in a pattern on a printed […]

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