My son finds the reasons for calculations-we don’t have to offer or come up with opportunities for practice. He also determines his item methods for calculation, asking for help when something is elusive. We have given all our kids Base 10 from the beginning, and this definitely informs how they calculate, especially in their heads. […]
Emori, Her 6th Year in Review
How About Six?
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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 […]
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 […]
Algeria, Texas, Scale, Ratio, and the United States-Faster
Lils is diving into the Stack the Countries game, which not only focuses on global location/geogrpahy, but also political facts, information, languages, and customs. For every 8 or so questions she answers accurately, she is awarded another country across the globe. So far, she has about 20 countries, giving her at least one within every continent. […]
Decimals and Their Equivalents
This post goes to, and is filed with tags related to focus, attention, frustration, and the simple concept that unless we begin to condition our youngest ones from the very beginning to be willing to comply with the forced parameters we tend to identify with conventional schooling, it seems attempting to integrate even a small […]
Fractions Depicted on a Line
Lily is working through 4th and 5th grade level math on Khan Academy’s Mission section. Her comprehension is at about 50% – 60% without much involvement on my part. When a question is presented that she has no comprehension of, she can either choose to indicate that she’s not learned “this” yet, or she can […]
Plotting and Planes, in Prep for Camera Obscura
This is the video we watched, followed by the session for applying shown below. Lily also worked on the concept in our notebook (see image) without hesitation. We will revisit this concept via exercises over the next day or two, as we incorporate them into the creation of our camera obscura project. Skip to the […]
Fibonacci, Golden Ratio Exploration Beginning
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