July 27, 2026

Category: Neurological Development

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

Mozart

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 […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Confidence, Creative Solution Generation, How We Learn Best, Knowledge Base Expansion, Lils, Look for Learning, Neurological Development

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 […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, CDE Standards Reference, Developing Self, Engineering, Geometry, Kindness, Lils, Math Discoveries, Movement & Coordination, Neurological Development, Numeracy, Physics, Playing, Responsibility, Science Discoveries, Self Esteem, Self Management, Social Development, Thought Process & Development

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 […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Beautiful Curiosity, Bugz & Her Explorations, Chemistry, Geography, History, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Neurological Development, Physics, Science Discoveries, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Thought Process & Development

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 […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Biology, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Construction, History, Imagination, Language, Lils, Math Discoveries, Neurological Development, Physics, Science Discoveries

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, […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Developing Self, Geography, History, Kindness, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Neurological Development, Physical Development, Physics, Playing, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Simply Nature, Social Development

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 […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, CDE Standards Reference, Compassion, Developing Self, Empathic Awareness, Engineering, Kindness, Lils, Music, Neurological Development, Self Awareness, Thought Process & Development

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 […]

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