July 27, 2026

Category: Literacy

A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Lils, Literacy, Resources

Break Through

I remember THE day when Savannah suddenly found that she could read the words quickly enough to make sense out of an entire sentence.  She’d been trying for a couple months, after only having learned the alphabet itself in the same 3 month (total) duration, and though she had learned the various things I could […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Literacy, Science Discoveries, Simply Nature, Society & Culture, Thought Process & Development

Spell That, Color That In, Tsunami's, Water's Energy, and Plate Tectonics

Japan, washed away in a moment of massive energy liberation due to the same.  Take a pencil, bend from both ends.  Watch… it will break.  The earth is no different… but try to explain the shifting of chunks of ground, pressing against each other to the point where they start to bend and eventually break, […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Literacy, Science Discoveries, Simply Nature, Society & Culture, Thought Process & Development

Spell That, Color That In, Tsunami's, Water's Energy, and Plate Tectonics

Japan, washed away in a moment of massive energy liberation due to the same.  Take a pencil, bend from both ends.  Watch… it will break.  The earth is no different… but try to explain the shifting of chunks of ground, pressing against each other to the point where they start to bend and eventually break, […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Bugz & Her Explorations, Culture Appreciation, Imagination, Lils, Literacy, Math Discoveries, Movement & Coordination, Numeracy, Playing, Social Development, Thought Process & Development

Early Mathematics, Surprised Me

Today, Lily and I spent the day in Chama, NM. Russ was working on a new site build, so she and I went exploring. We walked a couple miles into town, found basically um, nothing, except a place to have lunch. While at lunch, she and I colored a couple pages full of fairies and […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Bugz & Her Explorations, Lils, Literacy, Science Discoveries, Storytelling / Recollection, Thought Process & Development

Self Directed? A Slight Bit Perhaps

Bugz has taken to dressing herself almost exclusively now.  That generally means as some character either from her imagination or from some external source she’s taken a liking to. Today she was a purple wind fairy. She ate breakfast with us, and then disappeared to her room.  About 40 minutes later, she emerged, dressed, and […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Look for Learning

Writing

We went to breakfast this morning; Lily was given a color sheet by the waitress.  She seemed very interested in the activities on the sheet, and deciding what she wanted to eat. She spent some time coloring in the various items presented, and then she decided to write on the “plate” (part of the coloring […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Look for Learning

Writing

We went to breakfast this morning; Lily was given a color sheet by the waitress.  She seemed very interested in the activities on the sheet, and deciding what she wanted to eat. She spent some time coloring in the various items presented, and then she decided to write on the “plate” (part of the coloring […]

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