Adam ends up in a murder scheme while revealing why drivers are rarely held accountable for vehicular collisions, how the Border Patrol legally violates the Fourth Amendment, and why preserving corpses can benefit medical research.Between the segments about vehicular collisions and the Border Patrol, Emily discusses the dangers of deer; and, at the end of […]
Geometric Explorations
Kahn Geometry Intro Course to Geometry Basics Brilliant.com Geometry Foundation We’re using the Basic Geometry through Kahn for an intro into basic geometry terminology, function, and concepts. She took an assessment at the beginning of the course and successfully responded to 53% of the questions accurately, and so the system has configured her course accordingly. […]
Grammar Completion
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Teen Entrapreneur
Lily, begin composing a summary of your idea for your business. Use the prompts, ideas, and information we have already begun to collect in your Explore Doc
Why Math is Actually Useful
Kala is working through the Life of Fred series for math, et al. She’s in Honey, which is the book that introduces domains and conditions to sets and unions. It also introduces long division. She’s learning as she sees fit, with lots of external stimuli, and is discovering that she’s been doing extended division for […]
Magic Tic Tac Toe
Kala is taking a class that explores the theory behind the game, looks at different interpretations and iterations, and encourages the group to create their own variations to expand the simple game. Session one of four discussed: The group explored: We were asked to review the following over this week, in preparation for the next […]
Kala Steps In
Kala and I have begun to share the opportunity to blog about our explorations, rather than just Mama being the primary author of these entries. Kala will be contributing her thoughts on most, if not all future posts, so watch for her tidbits and see if you can pick out how certain aspects of design […]
Herbology 1 : Hogwarts Greenhouse One
Kala participated in her first Outschool course today, “Herbology & Magical Plants”. Here’s a recap: I learned about magical plants with many, many uses. We talked about cool plants like the Nightshade. The Nightshade is so pretty, it was used to dilate women’s eyes which used to be considered a beauty standard. As time passed, […]
Kala's Market Booth
She decided she wanted a booth this year. She wrote a business plan, raised capital, compiled an inventory of original works and creations, took a business partner, designed her display and presentation, learned how to tend to customers, gained an understanding of profit, expense, and projection, learned supply vs demand and how to market to […]
Much Learning, Little Blogging
I told Kala she was going to have to take over her blog. I’m struggling to keep up with it, but mostly I want her to be composing her own reflections of what she’s discovering. So very much growth has occurred this past year, it’s hard to capture, though if it were, it could fill […]