Literacy – Discovering

A Mind Wide Open, Anatomy and Physiology, Archaeology, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Broadening of Mind, Business: Management and Development, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, Care & Nurture, Chemistry, Compassion, Composition, Confidence, Construction, Context Comprehension, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Dance, Demonstrating Empathy, Developing Self, Drawing, Earth Science, Em, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Energy & Motion - Integrated Learning Permanence, Engineering, English, Equivalents, Exploration, Fine Motor Skills, Forming Complex Questions, Fraction, Geography, Geometry, History, Imagination, Inspiration, Knowledge Base Expansion, Literacy, Math Discoveries, Mental Arithmetic Processing, Movement & Coordination, Music, Pattern Recognition, Physical Development, Physics, Playing, Reasoning, Responsibility, Rhythm & Motion, Risk, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Self Management, Simply Nature, Social Development, States of Matter, Success & Failure, Travel, Writing

Emori, Her 6th Year in Review

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, 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, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Context Comprehension, Developing Self, Lils, Literacy

See You Next Year

Lily is more willing to read out loud now than she has been before. Her voice often doesn’t exude enthusiasm or confidence, but she does infuse her reading with feeling and expression. Lily read this book to me today. I picked it up last time we were in Denver, thinking it might be relevant, and […]

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, CDE Standards Reference, Context Comprehension, English, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Physics

Money, Decimal, and a Slew of Other Stuff – Here's Our Day, Today

We revisited the decimal debacle today, from a very different angle. Instead of trying to work with lining up decimals for calculating, we returned to money and her mental calculations followed. First she worked with the image shown below, and then, when I asked her to look at the problem written on the next […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Economics, Global History, Government, History, How We Learn Best, Integrity, Invention, Kindness, Lils, Literacy, Music, Physical Development, Physics, Ritual, Societal Studies, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Tradition

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 […]

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, CDE Standards Reference, Fine Motor Skills, How We Learn Best, Knowledge Base Expansion, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Writing

Let the Scripting Begin

We’re reading Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and before long I expect Lils will be composing scripts and well be putting on a play. But first… These are Lily’s first script replications with assistance. She has her own form of script as well, but has chosen to learn how to decipher standard, modern cursive. We will […]