Music – 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, Algebra, Anatomy and Physiology, Archaeology, Arithmetic - Division, Arithmetic-Addition, Arithmetic-Multiplication, Arithmetic-Subtraction, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Broadening of Mind, Business: Management and Development, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Compassion, Composition, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Custom & Social Awareness, Decimal, Developing Self, Earth Science, Economics, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Energy & Motion - Integrated Learning Permanence, Engineering, English, Equivalents, Exploration, Forming Complex Questions, Fraction, Geography, Geometry, Government, History, Imagination, Invention, Math Discoveries, Mental Arithmetic Processing, Music, Physics, Reasoning, Responsibility, Risk, Roe, Rowan's Development, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Self Management, Simply Nature, Social Development, States of Matter, Success & Failure, Theoretical Physics, Travel, Values Associated with Placement

Rowan, His 7th Year in Review

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Broadening of Mind, Composition, Lils, Music, Neurological Development, Pattern Recognition, Societal Studies, Storytelling / Recollection

PBS Documentary, Mozart’s life Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father, Leopold Mozart, both played and composed music. As well as his older sister, Maria Anna Mozart. Mozart lived in the Classical Period. He was born in 1756 and died 1791. His full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Mozart had six children, only two […]

A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Decimal, Equivalents, Fraction, Lils, Math Discoveries, Music, Percentage

Equivalent – Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Music Intervals

Visualizing equivalent fractions: To understand equivalent fractions it helps to “see” the fractions using something like a grid with shaded and unshaded sections representing the fraction.

A Mind Wide Open, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Creative Solution Generation, Exploration, History, Lils, Music

Google's Doodle: Beethoven

Thanks Google and Ellie!! Lils really enjoyed this; she has declared Beethoven is just awesome and really digs his compositions, of which she can play three so far. http://www.biography.com/people/ludwig-van-beethoven-9204862 Composer and pianist Ludwig Van Beethoven, widely considered the greatest composer of all time, was born on or about December 16, 1770 in the city of […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Artistry, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Dance, Developing Self, Imagination, Language Development, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Music, Physical Development, Playing, Rhythm & Motion, Self Esteem, Thought Process & Development

Lindsey, In Concert

Lily has decided to become Lindsey Stirling. For weeks she’s been carrying around her violin, everywhere, playing at will. She dances and plays, sings, and does whatever comes to mind, whether music is playing or not. She’s even held a few concerts, where she’s generated invitations and tickets, has guests come and be her audience. […]