Rowan, His 7th Year in Review
Algeria, Texas, Scale, Ratio, and the United States-Faster
Lils is diving into the Stack the Countries game, which not only focuses on global location/geogrpahy, but also political facts, information, languages, and customs. For every 8 or so questions she answers accurately, she is awarded another country across the globe. So far, she has about 20 countries, giving her at least one within every continent. […]
Decimals and Their Equivalents
This post goes to, and is filed with tags related to focus, attention, frustration, and the simple concept that unless we begin to condition our youngest ones from the very beginning to be willing to comply with the forced parameters we tend to identify with conventional schooling, it seems attempting to integrate even a small […]
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
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
Aqualine is a Sapling
Fractions Depicted on a Line
Lily is working through 4th and 5th grade level math on Khan Academy’s Mission section. Her comprehension is at about 50% – 60% without much involvement on my part. When a question is presented that she has no comprehension of, she can either choose to indicate that she’s not learned “this” yet, or she can […]
Equivalent – Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Music Intervals
Visualizing equivalent fractions: To understand equivalent fractions it helps to “see” the fractions using something like a grid with shaded and unshaded sections representing the fraction.
Minecraft Ore Light
We are working on a light cube for Lily’s room, made of foam board, to represent an ore block from Minecraft. She’s chosen diamond as her mineral of choice.