O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, Your branches green delight us! They are green when summer days are bright, They are green when winter snow is white. O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, Your branches green delight us! O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, You give us so much pleasure! How oft at Christmas tide […]
NASA is Not Dead
Colton’s visit today prompted quite the exploration, on top of the conversations the kids held. Colton informed us that he’d been educated by his parent that NASA was gone, dead, no longer. I suggested perhaps his comprehension of the statement might be inconclusive: I hoped perhaps he’d heard that the shuttle program had been put […]
Crocheting Mania
Today we worked on our winter spiral, a turtle fort, cleaning the lab, sorting books onto her shelves, math puzzles, and crocheting. (She wants to knit the turtle some special stuff, and so we are beginning to learn both knitting and crocheting.) Add videos via YouTube…. And then, she wants us to turn off the […]
Cell Phone Display
Electrons, particles, positive and negative charge… “My phone’s display is made by a whole bunch of little lights, isn’t it?” We discussed the difference between lights made through heat, friction, expansion, and chemical reaction. We talked about fluorescent lights, how the plasma ball lights and how it can turn on a fluorescent bulb, and colored […]
Number Lines, Matches for Equations, Breasts
Lily has a game in which she has to rearrange virtual matches to either generate new shapes from existing, or fix an equation. She really digs the game, and in solving the equations, a relevant opportunity for a quick exposure to a simple number line. We watched a documentary on the breast, it’s intrigue, and […]
Unschooling for Today, Enderwoman Style
Lily and I are working on her Halloween costume. The original plan was to simply use prepackaged led candles, but they were too yellow, so we modified our design to use pink LED’s instead.
Minecrafting, Legos, and Art
She crafts, she builds, she designs, she engineers, she paints.
Fibonacci, Golden Ratio Exploration Beginning
http://www.brandemia.org/la-proporcion-aurea-en-el-diseno-de-logotipos
Fibonacci, Golden Ratio Exploration Beginning
http://www.brandemia.org/la-proporcion-aurea-en-el-diseno-de-logotipos
Percentage of Comprehension
We worked on determining what level of comprehension Lily has concerning fractions represented in percentage form.