STEAM MA

09/08/2026

Weird Al song about how brain’s work and its anatomy with realistic diagrams. Kids should like it. It’s nice to see educational content from big names sometimes.

See the full video HERE: https://youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4

09/08/2026

What are you reading today?
Our little Velveteen Rabbit is looking over some memories she jotted down in her NASA journal.

Have you written something lately?
Maybe it's time to read it over and revisit! Revisions can be goofy fun when we get our stuffed animals involved.

09/06/2026

Patterns are what makes jewelry look good and professional. We restrung this bracelet our daughter designed and she had to tell us the pattern. Friendship bracelets are good for fine motor skills and pattern recognition. Anyone could remake it if they knew the pattern which lets you redo creative ideas. Writing it down helps too.

09/04/2026

Estimating Fun. Today we went to the grocery store and as we reached the checkouts I had the kids estimate how many items they thought were in the cart. Was it over 15 or under 15? Can we use that self checkout? Then we checked our work and counted the items. You can also do this with bags of apples or potatoes and the one who estimated closest wins a cookie Or something similar. It makes it real and takes very little effort and time. You probably already do that in your head so share the everyday math with your kids. Compare the size of watermelons if it’s the same price.”You got a bigger watermelon for free because you can compare and contrast and estimate well! Or veggies. Compare. Contrast. It also makes chores more fun for them.

09/04/2026

This is a fun picture/ recipe book that givea a recipe for each month of the year based on what is ready to harvest. Healthy easy recipes, plus Vocabulary pages and it shows what various food seeds look like. I’ll let you know how the recipes go.

09/04/2026

Our daughters taught me to make a custom bracelet to coordinate with my work shirt.

09/02/2026

What is bioluminescence?
We love this graphic that explains the bright blue glow of the lagoon this time of the year on the Space Coast of Florida.
National Geographic made this diagram. Here's the website it came from, so you can learn about dinoflagellates, too!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/in-this-bioluminescent-florida-lagoon-glowing-waters-can-be-a-warning

09/02/2026

Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is on the way to Lagrange 2. That's between Earth and Mars!

09/02/2026

Check out the detail on this sunflower. Did you know the sunflower is a bunch of tiny flowers all smashed together? They have ray flowers on the outside and disc flowers on the interior. Every single seat that you get out of a sunflower is from an individual flower.