Yesterday, Lily inquired, as we were on our way to our Alamosa group for play and discovery, about the atmosphere and global economics. She indicated she understood the concept of the water cycle, mostly. Though I think she is skeptical at just how cyclical the whole thing is, but mostly, she questions where the water came from […]
Quantum Leaping, Roof Raising, Laser Guided Pooping Machines
This morning we began with some wacked out sentences on the fridge, which included flying pigeons with laser guided poop devices. These sentences are made out of English, French, and Spanish words, randomly thrown together. Is this a logical way of learning sentence structure in a language other than English? No. It does generate vocabulary […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bioluminescence.
Lily asks, “Why is Neptune blue?” Neptune’s atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane. The methane in Neptune’s upper atmosphere absorbs the red light from the sun but reflects the blue light from the sun back into space. This is why Neptune appears blue. “Ok, why do the phytoplankton light up?” Well, says the mother […]
Instructions Smuctions
Lately, Lily’s head is a thousand places elsewhere. She is carrying on conversation after conversation with herself and her many enchanted associates. She does well making lists, for which she checks through them as her day progresses. She draws maps, and provides us outline instruction sets of step by step how we are to accomplish […]
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 […]
Mud Sculpting
This afternoon Lils set herself up side by side with Mike, our wall texture/drywall hanger guy. He’s been working on his masterpiece on the ceiling and walls of our theatre for a few days now, and today she decided to join him. He is an extremely gentle and patient man. He’s pretty good with mud […]
Day Names
Bugz has decided she wants to know about the days of the week. The manner in which she will ask for the day’s name sometimes leads to very strange responses from Russ and I. As a result of how she frames the question, for a while, she sort of believed us that instead of the […]
Littlest Pet Shop – Visual Comparison
Lily found this great visual comparison game on LPS’s site. She gets a bit impatient, but seems to enjoy the challenge. The neurological development necessary to support this level of comparison intrigues me and I am looking for more information that describes what’s going on in the mind at this stage, to allow for […]