Language – Discovering

A Mind Wide Open, Culture Appreciation, French, Imagination, Language, Lils, Literacy, Playing, Self Esteem, Self Management, Social Development, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Success & Failure

I Love YouTube's New Google Video Bridge

She had her first French lesson with Thierry today… went wonderfully, I am told. She’s already scheduled her next session!

A Mind Wide Open, French, Language, Language Development, Lils, Rowan's Development

Look What I Found!! Zoubi!

We are loving it, Rowan too!

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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, CDE Standards Reference, Conservation, Culture Appreciation, Earth Science, Exploration, Geography, Global History, History, Imagination, Invention, Language, Lils

Out of Africa, Or….

It started with the Croods… and then we watched a variety of videos (noted below) that explored the origins of humans, potential adaptations and various “types” of human through the last 40,000 years, and even explored a couple existing societies that we have collectively determined are the closest representations we presently have of a previous […]

A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Creative Solution Generation, Language, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Pattern Recognition, Self Esteem, Thought Process & Development

Oh, Balderdash!

This was our classroom this morning. We decided to use the “grown up” side instead of the kid’s side, in effort to even the playing field a bit because it was just the two of us. She did great, and she won, fair and square. We both learned a dozen or more new words […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Dance, Developing Self, Earth Science, Economics, Engineering, Exploration, Fine Motor Skills, Geography, Geometry, Global History, Imagination, Invention, Knowledge Base Expansion, Language, Lils, Literacy, Social Development, Societal Studies

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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Biology, Botany, Bugz & Her Explorations, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Drawing, Earth Science, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Geometry, History, Imagination, Invention, Language, Lils, Literacy, Math Discoveries, Neurological Development, Physics, Playing, Resources, Responsibility, Science Discoveries, Sculpture, Self Management, Social Development

Minecraft, It Is

This past weekend, we launched our first ever, private Minecraft world that we’re hosting. It’s been offered to a group of young kids from the WLU community and we’ve set it as Creative only. The kids (about 30 of them, ranging from 4 to 15, with all but two of them are under 11) are […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Artistry, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Developing Self, Drawing, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Imagination, Language, Lils, Literacy, Playing, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Storytelling / Recollection, Writing

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.

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Biology, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Construction, History, Imagination, Language, Lils, Math Discoveries, Neurological Development, Physics, Science Discoveries

M82, Lightyear Distances, and Warp Speed

Copied in from FB because I don’t have enough time to retype tonight, as Lily has declared the “period of a human’s life” is too short to spend typing. She asked me this morning what a ‘period of time’ was. Lily and I want to know, were we to convert light years into distance (yes, […]

A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Beautiful Curiosity, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Developing Self, History, Imagination, Kindness, Language, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Music, Physical Development, Playing, Rhythm & Motion, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Society & Culture

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 […]