unschooling living
… last month’s activity … animals, plants, sea and sky, the earth outdoor school… a long weekend up north at the beach (my parents’ house)… hiking through the woods on the island, Orlando and I went off on our own onto a round-about not-well-traveled loop, sorta spooky, filled with mosses and dark spaces, and [...]
unschooling living
… last month’s activity … talking about/exploring – The boys dug out fossilized teeth and crystals from clay — Orlando and I are planning on going rock-hounding a couple times in the coming months! Orlando has been enjoying his math class and this month they worked on probability and the handshake problem (if there are [...]
unschooling living
… this month’s activity … baking and making – Orlando recently told me he wanted to do more cooking, so we’ll probably do even more in the days to come. So far the kids got really into making salad people and we made another soup. Orlando chopped almost all the veggies and sang a song [...]
unschooling living
Another month of unschooling living. baking and making – soups (lots of chopping for Orlando) and brownies (lots of rigorous stirring for Mica), and pine cone bird feeders. Orlando and Rom built a little robot together (from a kit) — it involved soldering, which was interesting to talk about and figure out. Orlando is teaching [...]
month of unschooling
We began our year with a whirlwind — dancing until midnight in the common house while the disco ball twirled and then Rom and I rushed into the Puget Sound the next morning, holding hands and gasping from the grip of the ocean’s cold. It’s the Polar Bear Plunge, and a bunch of folks from [...]
a month of unschool
This month could be summed up by cuddle time, indoor time, couch time, books, lego creations galore, a splash of glitter, video games (phonics, air penguin, and angry birds), math, conversations, and the ocean. Always the ocean! reading – As usual, we’ve read a ton of books, with links to ones I particularly recommend. We [...]
a month of unschool
lego robotics – building creatures and programming them on the computer… lots of innovative building that included finding out what it would take for one bird to knock the other off its stick or changing a drum into a pounding machine. playing pattern blocks, magnatiles, legos, blocks, dress-up, angry birds (the video game and creating [...]
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