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 […]
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
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 […]
Relevance in Learning
A friend posted the following (segment) on his FB page, and it generated an enjoyable conversation between Cecily and I this morning. Thierry Billette “Yesterday, I went to Savers, and bought a TI-84 Plus–a graphing calculator. $5.99. New, it costs around $125… Just now I am updating it with the latest OS, which the previous […]
STEM, Optics First, Robots Next
After learning about the STEM program at our local university a few weeks ago, I spoke with Lily about her interest and upon her request began the process of trying to get her accepted, given that the requirement was a minimum of 4th grade. As we are not utilizing “grades” and she already meets about […]
The Stone Age
In keeping with Eep, we worked on our own cave paintings today. We learned about the El Castillo cave drawings, and how it is believed to be the oldest known example, dating some 40,000 years. This would be caveman era, and the symbols were of hands and sun. We learned how the pigments were created […]
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, […]
Instructions Smuctions
Lately, Lily’s head is a thousand places elsewhere. She is carrying on conversation after conversation with herself and her many enchanted associates. She does well making lists, for which she checks through them as her day progresses. She draws maps, and provides us outline instruction sets of step by step how we are to accomplish […]
Zapata!
What does Zapata mean? Ah, so that’s what it looks like not frozen! I’ve never been there when it was wet. We have joined our friends in creating the first ever, for us, anyway – Nature Explorer’s Club This first event was a trip to Zapata Falls The vision for the club is simple […]
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 […]