Grasshopper
The other day Orlando pulled a grasshopper out of his pocket. Pinched between his fingers, he thrust the green thing into my face, saying, “I forgot! I found a grasshopper today!” I was sitting at the dinner table. I saw the creature wiggling between his fingers. I leapt up, totally confused. “Wait, it’s alive! It’s [...]
Amazing
“I love mama.” This murmured by a nine-year-old snuggled up and holding on to me like a little monkey, his head burrowed into my neck. This from a child who hasn’t hugged me in a long time, not like this. I am sad to say that I didn’t realize these hugs had gone fugitive until [...]
Powerful Things
Our August has been slower than the rest of the summer — thank goodness! But things never really slow down that much, and Orlando, for one, has been busy creating beautiful, powerful things. Tweet
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 [...]
this moment
{this moment} a picture, from now, to remember Tweet
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 [...]
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