July 27, 2026

Category: How We Learn Best

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, Decimal, Developing Self, Economics, How We Learn Best, Knowledge Base Expansion, Math Discoveries, Mental Arithmetic Processing, Pattern Recognition, Percentage, Roe

Pattern Minds

My son finds the reasons for calculations-we don’t have to offer or come up with opportunities for practice. He also determines his item methods for calculation, asking for help when something is elusive. We have given all our kids Base 10 from the beginning, and this definitely informs how they calculate, especially in their heads. […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Astronomy, Beautiful Curiosity, Broadening of Mind, CDE Standards Reference, Construction, Context Comprehension, Creative Solution Generation, Engineering, How We Learn Best, Knowledge Base Expansion, Language, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Movement & Coordination, Pattern Recognition, Physics, Playing, Questions from Lily's Brain

Grandparents, Gravity, Goodies, and Dessine

Will complete this entry when I have the mind to get all the images together.   Tinker Crate with Grandpa – they did the fiber optics constellations and the defy gravity game Grandpa tuned the piano and Lily has become fascinated with not only playing but watching the mechanics. Today she stated she’s going to […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Bugz & Her Explorations, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Decimal, Economics: Global, Equivalents, Fraction, Geography, How We Learn Best, Lils, Math Discoveries, Pattern Recognition, Percentage, Playing, Political Science, Questions from Lily's Brain, Reasoning

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. […]

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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. […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Compassion, Confidence, Decimal, Developing Self, From the Mama, How We Learn Best, Kindness, Lils, Look for Learning, Math Discoveries, Responsibility, Success & Failure, Thought Process & Development

Relevance & Regret

  This post is cross posted from my Childhood Revered site     We educate our daughter independently, in a manner that is driven by her curiosity and interests. This method works beautifully because it inspires, encourages, and ignites her (and us), it also requires relevance be at the root of our activities, which means […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Compassion, Confidence, Decimal, Developing Self, From the Mama, How We Learn Best, Kindness, Lils, Look for Learning, Math Discoveries, Responsibility, Success & Failure, Thought Process & Development

Relevance & Regret

  This post is cross posted from my Childhood Revered site     We educate our daughter independently, in a manner that is driven by her curiosity and interests. This method works beautifully because it inspires, encourages, and ignites her (and us), it also requires relevance be at the root of our activities, which means […]

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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, 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 […]

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