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Good point about talking about what we don't do in unschooling a lot. So, I
propose a thread where we talk about the cool things we're DOING.
This coming weekend I am taking my 12 year old son to the 24 hour Science
Fiction Film marathon in Boston. (Web site: http://www.mv.com/org/sf27/) I
went once when I was in college. We spent some time yesterday looking at the
web site, which has a great Discussion Board. We read the threads about what
to take, and started a list of our own. We decided we wanted to get there
early so we could get decent seats, but we didn't want to send the night
outside in the cold. We looked over the movies titles, and checked out
descriptions. He is SO excited! (Me too.)
Ironically, his father wouldn't consider this "educational," even though he
thinks it's great we're doing it. We're having lots of conflicts about
unschooling, because he thinks Julian should be actively engaged in academics
6 hours or more a day. He won't read anything about unschooling. Argh...
Sorry, this turned into a venting session. Juls is doing SO well, and his
dad just doesn't get it.
Kathryn
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propose a thread where we talk about the cool things we're DOING.
This coming weekend I am taking my 12 year old son to the 24 hour Science
Fiction Film marathon in Boston. (Web site: http://www.mv.com/org/sf27/) I
went once when I was in college. We spent some time yesterday looking at the
web site, which has a great Discussion Board. We read the threads about what
to take, and started a list of our own. We decided we wanted to get there
early so we could get decent seats, but we didn't want to send the night
outside in the cold. We looked over the movies titles, and checked out
descriptions. He is SO excited! (Me too.)
Ironically, his father wouldn't consider this "educational," even though he
thinks it's great we're doing it. We're having lots of conflicts about
unschooling, because he thinks Julian should be actively engaged in academics
6 hours or more a day. He won't read anything about unschooling. Argh...
Sorry, this turned into a venting session. Juls is doing SO well, and his
dad just doesn't get it.
Kathryn
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joanna514
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That is cool.
My kids were watching an old episodes of the Twilight Zone the other
day. They are 11 and 8 and had never seen it before. We had gone on
the Tower of Terror at Disney this fall, so they knew the name, and
the voice of Rod Sterling.
They loved it. It was about a guy on a wagon train with a dying son
who went to look for water and was transported to present day 1960's.
He ended up meeting people in a small desert town and learning about
modern medicine and getting some for his son and going back.
Ofcoarse all the people in town thought he was crazy.
Anyway, that is stuff i consider "educational". I now get that same
feeling I use to get when they would work in a workbook a few years
ago, when they are doing things that are just *cool*. I can't help
but think that some things are just really good to come across. (the
workbooks aren't on that list anymore).
I have a friend that is in charge of the childrens theater(adult
college students, doing childrens theater) at our local university.
We just went and saw her production of "The Prince, the Pig and the
Peevish Princess" I believe the playbill said it was first played in
new Mexico and some Shakespeare theater. It was hilarious!!
My kids are also in a childrens theater program and they are now
doing The Wizard of OZ. I'm in charge of costumes with another lady
and have been making the monkey costumes latley. My dd is a
munchkin. She got the part of 'city father #1', but being the
feminist that she is, persuaded them to let her be a city mother.
She has to say the "morally, ethically, ...."line. My ds is a common
munchkin who has to sing and dance and he's a flying monkey. It's
his first production, and my daughters 7th or 8th. (she loves
theater). I also have a 5 and 2 yo. They've been getting some
pretty good daddy bonding time, with us being so busy with rehearsals
and costume making.
Anyway, that is some of the stuff we *do*.
Joanna
> Good point about talking about what we don't do in unschooling alot. So, I
> propose a thread where we talk about the cool things we're DOING.Science
>
> This coming weekend I am taking my 12 year old son to the 24 hour
> Fiction Film marathon in Boston. (Web site:http://www.mv.com/org/sf27/)
That is cool.
My kids were watching an old episodes of the Twilight Zone the other
day. They are 11 and 8 and had never seen it before. We had gone on
the Tower of Terror at Disney this fall, so they knew the name, and
the voice of Rod Sterling.
They loved it. It was about a guy on a wagon train with a dying son
who went to look for water and was transported to present day 1960's.
He ended up meeting people in a small desert town and learning about
modern medicine and getting some for his son and going back.
Ofcoarse all the people in town thought he was crazy.
Anyway, that is stuff i consider "educational". I now get that same
feeling I use to get when they would work in a workbook a few years
ago, when they are doing things that are just *cool*. I can't help
but think that some things are just really good to come across. (the
workbooks aren't on that list anymore).
I have a friend that is in charge of the childrens theater(adult
college students, doing childrens theater) at our local university.
We just went and saw her production of "The Prince, the Pig and the
Peevish Princess" I believe the playbill said it was first played in
new Mexico and some Shakespeare theater. It was hilarious!!
My kids are also in a childrens theater program and they are now
doing The Wizard of OZ. I'm in charge of costumes with another lady
and have been making the monkey costumes latley. My dd is a
munchkin. She got the part of 'city father #1', but being the
feminist that she is, persuaded them to let her be a city mother.
She has to say the "morally, ethically, ...."line. My ds is a common
munchkin who has to sing and dance and he's a flying monkey. It's
his first production, and my daughters 7th or 8th. (she loves
theater). I also have a 5 and 2 yo. They've been getting some
pretty good daddy bonding time, with us being so busy with rehearsals
and costume making.
Anyway, that is some of the stuff we *do*.
Joanna
Pat Cald...
From: KathrynJB@...
Pat
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>So, I propose a thread where we talk about the cool things we're DOING.Virginia and I are starting a sign language club. We are just in the planning stages and have 4 or 5 other homeschoolers interested as well.
Pat
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Tia Leschke
>Good point about talking about what we don't do in unschooling a lot. So, IRight now *we* aren't doing anything. My 14 yo is working full time with
>propose a thread where we talk about the cool things we're DOING.
his dad for a few weeks (making more than I could *ever* make). In his
free time, he's building mountain bike trails and jumps, building a new
bike from the frame up, playing soccer, getting ready for baseball season,
learning about photography and learning how to use Adobe Photoshop,
watching TV, surfing the mountain bike web sites, downloading music. The
only one of those that I'm interested in knowing more about is the
photography and Photoshop stuff.
He did ask about making web sites the other day. I told him I could show
him the basics, and how to learn from other people's sites, and that he
needed to think about what he might want to put on his site. We'll see if
that goes any farther. I hope it does. I've always had trouble finding
areas we were both interested in. Oh, and he's started letting me read to
him again, over the last few months. I really missed that. We're doing
The Lord of the Rings again. He doesn't remember any of it, because I read
it to him when he was 6 or 7.
Tia
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
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