Fine Motor Skills – Page 2

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Early Valentine

My sweet one. She “anilated” it to preserve it for us. We mounted it on a raised canvas for our walls.

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We’re reading Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and before long I expect Lils will be composing scripts and well be putting on a play. But first… These are Lily’s first script replications with assistance. She has her own form of script as well, but has chosen to learn how to decipher standard, modern cursive. We will […]

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Let the Scripting Begin

We’re reading Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and before long I expect Lils will be composing scripts and well be putting on a play. But first… These are Lily’s first script replications with assistance. She has her own form of script as well, but has chosen to learn how to decipher standard, modern cursive. We will […]

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Farkle Math

A game of Farkle is perfect for simple and more complex arithmetic. Addition is necessary to keep score, subtraction is necessary to gain points, along with division and percentage related to determining odds. Estimation, assumption, ordering, quantity value, and value set recognition are also an integral aspect of the game.

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A New Adventure – Setting Up Victorian

Lily’s grandparents (Papa side) have worked to restore this little doll house for the last two years. My mom found it on the driveway of a neighbor’s house, having been the project of a gentleman that had recently passed, and decided to see if we wanted to give it a go. All we have left […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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I Think Being an Author is awesome!

She has now written four books, the latest entitled, “Popcornland”. We ventured into binding books today… Oh, the excitement and draw of a few blank pages.

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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.

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First Tangible Letter – Mailed

Lils brought this picture she created for her grandma to me today, folded in an envelope, hoping to send it off to Denver (where Grandma lives). I worked with her to create a second envelope for mailing, as her first had her image folded into a fully 4 dimensional object. I explained the machines, sorting, […]