Kindness – Discovering

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 […]

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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Developing Self, Empathic Awareness, Kindness, Lils, Literacy, Playing, Social Development

Bookwormish

Last night I started reading Fairy Swarm to Lily. I haven’t tried reading her a chapter/novel like book from a tangible book copy before now. We read from an electronic device often before bed, or in the car, etc.. but this time, I had book in hand. She snuggled up next to me and as […]

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The Sleeping Time, Our New Traditions, The Eye of Horus, Little Women, & Advent

We’re embarking on our explorations of the Winter Solstice, Advent time, and how humans have experienced the natural Sleeping Time on our planet over the course of our existence. Last night, we watched the 1994 version of Alcott’s, “Little Women” together. Lily seemed to enjoy it, though it was a bit longer than her attention could […]

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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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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, […]

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STEM, Optics First, Robots Next

After learning about the STEM program at our local university a few weeks ago, I spoke with Lily about her interest and upon her request began the process of trying to get her accepted, given that the requirement was a minimum of 4th grade. As we are not utilizing “grades” and she already meets about […]

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Zapata!

What does Zapata mean? Ah, so that’s what it looks like not frozen! I’ve never been there when it was wet. We have joined our friends in creating the first ever, for us, anyway – Nature Explorer’s Club This first event was a trip to Zapata Falls The vision for the club is simple […]

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A Kind and Gentle, Detuned Empath

Lily has been sick since Sunday. She had a raging fever most of the day, seemed fine on Monday, but then the head cold hit on Tuesday. Last night, we spent most of the night miserable, neither she nor I getting much sleep. I finally managed to get her propped up enough, and managed to […]

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Lily Sings in Her Sleep

Lily chose to be Aisling for Halloween. I am going to use this post as a starting/reference point. Because of her choice of character, and the associated story, we have begun to explore the Middle Ages, Europe in antiquity, myth and legend, and the Irish language. Oh, how much fun this is! The movie, “The […]