Self Esteem – Page 2

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CATCH IT!

We’ve just spent the last hour playing catch in the front yard. My shoulder is screaming now, after a few dives and too many tosses, but she is getting good! Her throw is a bit better than her catch, but both are what I’d expect from a kiddo who’s never played this game before. She […]

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A Googol & A Light Year – That's How Big

Yesterday and today… We’ve been playing with the abacus, learning about the Orders of Magnitude (what we call each major transition in numbers, as they increase exponentially), and multiplication via sets thanks to a few beads on sticks. Yesterday, we talked about how, with each added zero, we increase the size/amount of the number. She’s […]

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Farkle Math

A game of Farkle is perfect for simple and more complex arithmetic. Addition is necessary to keep score, subtraction is necessary to gain points, along with division and percentage related to determining odds. Estimation, assumption, ordering, quantity value, and value set recognition are also an integral aspect of the game.

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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 […]

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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.

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First Tangible Letter – Mailed

Lils brought this picture she created for her grandma to me today, folded in an envelope, hoping to send it off to Denver (where Grandma lives). I worked with her to create a second envelope for mailing, as her first had her image folded into a fully 4 dimensional object. I explained the machines, sorting, […]

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Her Eggs

“I will become a mother. I have eggs to grow.” “Lils, you’re a cat…” “A Chicken-Cat.” Well, then. Ok. The video attached was filmed (is that what we still call it?) by Lily, with the assistance of Russ. Note: discover.cecilynixon.com has become, per the conversation that followed after she made the video, discover.cecilynixon.com. She’s already […]

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Finger Puffs

This contains Lily’s and Angie’s fingerprints. We used a bunch of different options for the colors and frame. Lily experimented quite a bit. We call this, Fingerpuffs. She made a second imagine all her own too. She called it, “A Beautiful Sunset”.

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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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Lily Bakes

I told Lily that I didn’t want her to bake in the kitchen the other day because it was a mess and I already felt like I couldn’t keep up… I was mostly flat on my back and the kitchen was not cleaning itself. She wanted to bake cookies. I told her that I’d get […]