Self Awareness – 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, Artistry, Broadening of Mind, Confidence, Developing Self, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Lils, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Self Management

In wrapping up the depression that set in for Lily during the month of February, which was relieved by a bottle of oils (empowering her to provide herself a calming stimulant), Russ and I sorting through some rather tough stuff, some candid discussions with her about sympathetic symptoms and experiences – and differentiation between her […]

A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Engineering, Geometry, Lils, Math Discoveries, Pattern Recognition, Self Awareness

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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Developing Self, Electricity & Circuitry, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, How We Learn Best, Kindness, Language Development, Lils, Ritual, Self Awareness

Early Valentine

My sweet one. She “anilated” it to preserve it for us. We mounted it on a raised canvas for our walls.

A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Lils, Literacy, Self Awareness

The Incredible Present

We picked this book up in Brighton, ON in a little used book shop, with a bookkeeper (yes, a real one) that made a permanent impression on Lily (and us). Below is a recording of Lily reading last night, out of her own interest.. Click to listen

A Mind Wide Open, Developing Self, Lils, Self Awareness, Self Esteem

Barbie?

From Bethany Sells, FB – Whole Life Unschooling: “People with daughters, discuss barbies, monster high, bratz, etc and body image. Thank you.” A tough and significant topic for me… Lily and I have had many conversations about this one.. I had barbies. I had good examples. I had supportive parents and friends. I didn’t start to look […]

A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Construction, Creative Solution Generation, Culture Appreciation, Developing Self, Drawing, Engineering, Exploration, Fine Motor Skills, Global History, History, Lils, Questions from Lily's Brain, Responsibility, Science Discoveries, Sculpture, Self Awareness, Societal Studies

The Year She's Carved Out

This is the first year Lils has had refined enough motor skills to manage the various tools necessary to carve a pumpkin independently. How excited she was yesterday, and again today, as she got to tell her friend all about her carving adventure. Last night she came bopping down the stairs, pumpkin in arms, lit and […]

A Mind Wide Open, Art, Artistry, CDE Standards Reference, Confidence, Developing Self, Drawing, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills, Imagination, Language, Lils, Literacy, Playing, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Storytelling / Recollection, Writing

Cecily, the Author

Watch out MO!! Lily’s on the trail! – Rebecca Lily decided yesterday, after playing the Stickman game (browser version), to write her first book, “A Big Hotdog”! Today, she wrote her second book, “A Mermaid”. Both are of her “Stickman” series.

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Biology, Botany, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Compassion, Construction, Developing Self, Empathic Awareness, Engineering, Geometry, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Movement & Coordination, Physical Development, Playing, Responsibility, Self Awareness, Simply Nature

Houses, Castles, & Questions

I’ve decided that to best keep track of my own mind, as well as attempt to record the finer points of Lily’s development and her day, that I really have to just leave a post window open all day long. I see it, I write, I add pics, whatever… Today began with Lily showing us […]

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The 5 Emotions, So Far….