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In a message dated 2/13/02 12:42:14 AM, JVilter@... writes:
<< The blurb says "Make guacamole, perform daring
experiments, create your own pin hole camera and much, much more. There is
no author listed, and I couldn't find it at Amazon, but I'll bet if you get
any of the Scholastic catalogues, you could order it from them. It might be
a good stop gap until Sandra gets around to hers.<g> >>
There y'go.
There are "things to do with kids in the car" and "outside activities with
kids" too.
I figured one of my cards should be something like "Do something from page
35. It doesn't matter which book."
One thing my kids used to like was if we got a new book that had alphabetical
things (Greek Gods and Goddesses went over the best) we'd "look up our
names." They weren't in there, but we'd see which two names each would have
fallen between alphabetically, and I'd read those aloud.
Last night Holly's bed-book was _Me on the Map,_ a book about a little girl
in Kansas who's drawn a map of her bedroom, her house, her street, her town,
etc. So the illustrations are a picture of her room, and then a map of it
(from the same angle, pretty close). When it gets to the picture of the
country, which is a cartoonish picture of the country compressed, so you can
see things visually (to compare with the map on the other page) Holly was
saying "I've been here, and I've seen this" about Mt. Rushmore and the arch
in St. Louis. I pointed out the capitol building in D.C., too, as something
she'd seen.
It made me feel really good that she's gotten to see some things besides her
own house. When I was ten I had seen nothing but grandparents' houses, and
uncles', in the small range of Colorado Springs to Fort Worth. When I was
twenty I hadn't seen much more. I'd gone with a boyfriend to Thanksgiving
with his relatives in southern California. I travelled more later with SCA
activities, being a corporate officer, and now speaking at homeschooling
conferences has gotten me to a couple of places I hadn't been before.
Oregon. Reno, I had only passed through. Now I've passed through and spoken.
<g>
But Holly has a better idea of where she is and what the world is than anyone
in my family had, or my parents, or grandparents.
This doesn't have anything to do with cards, but it does. The best hope and
finest experience, for me, is for one thing to lead to another. And instead
of resisting and staying to a predicted outcome or time restraint, it's
useful for learning and for learning to live if there is an ease with
following thoughts and activities to unexpected places without feeling
"wrong" about it.
"No matter where you go, there you are," even with ideas.
Sandra
<< The blurb says "Make guacamole, perform daring
experiments, create your own pin hole camera and much, much more. There is
no author listed, and I couldn't find it at Amazon, but I'll bet if you get
any of the Scholastic catalogues, you could order it from them. It might be
a good stop gap until Sandra gets around to hers.<g> >>
There y'go.
There are "things to do with kids in the car" and "outside activities with
kids" too.
I figured one of my cards should be something like "Do something from page
35. It doesn't matter which book."
One thing my kids used to like was if we got a new book that had alphabetical
things (Greek Gods and Goddesses went over the best) we'd "look up our
names." They weren't in there, but we'd see which two names each would have
fallen between alphabetically, and I'd read those aloud.
Last night Holly's bed-book was _Me on the Map,_ a book about a little girl
in Kansas who's drawn a map of her bedroom, her house, her street, her town,
etc. So the illustrations are a picture of her room, and then a map of it
(from the same angle, pretty close). When it gets to the picture of the
country, which is a cartoonish picture of the country compressed, so you can
see things visually (to compare with the map on the other page) Holly was
saying "I've been here, and I've seen this" about Mt. Rushmore and the arch
in St. Louis. I pointed out the capitol building in D.C., too, as something
she'd seen.
It made me feel really good that she's gotten to see some things besides her
own house. When I was ten I had seen nothing but grandparents' houses, and
uncles', in the small range of Colorado Springs to Fort Worth. When I was
twenty I hadn't seen much more. I'd gone with a boyfriend to Thanksgiving
with his relatives in southern California. I travelled more later with SCA
activities, being a corporate officer, and now speaking at homeschooling
conferences has gotten me to a couple of places I hadn't been before.
Oregon. Reno, I had only passed through. Now I've passed through and spoken.
<g>
But Holly has a better idea of where she is and what the world is than anyone
in my family had, or my parents, or grandparents.
This doesn't have anything to do with cards, but it does. The best hope and
finest experience, for me, is for one thing to lead to another. And instead
of resisting and staying to a predicted outcome or time restraint, it's
useful for learning and for learning to live if there is an ease with
following thoughts and activities to unexpected places without feeling
"wrong" about it.
"No matter where you go, there you are," even with ideas.
Sandra
Pat Cald...
From: SandraDodd@...
It is very hard for me to include myself in their lives without *my plan*. So I sit around, mostly on the computer or doing housework, and I wait for opportunities. Kind of boring for me but if I got going on a project I would tune them out.
The opportunities do come. Virginia has recently expressed more interest in sign language, got herself sign language books out of the library and asked for help learning it. I told her I thought it would be easier for her to learn sign language if she had some people to sign with and asked if she wanted to start a sign language club, which we are doing. We also went on-line and bought some posters, a game book, a board game, flash cards (she wanted) and a cookie cutter.
I could choose a project a week (of course only if they girls are interested) and a field trip a month to offer to the kids. That would be a plan :-) ahhhh a plan! And somewhere in there I should fit a movie, I think. ?????
I know this sounds stupid to people that this stuff flows for but this is me. I need a plan.
Is this still unschooling? When would I be crossing the line?
Pat
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>I figured one of my cards should be something like "Do something from pageAs you know, I am a list/schedule person. I used to like to plan the things the kids and I would do and therefore we would do a lot of things. When we started unschooling all this stopped. Now I ask the kids what their plans are for the day or if they would like to do something today.
>35. It doesn't matter which book."
It is very hard for me to include myself in their lives without *my plan*. So I sit around, mostly on the computer or doing housework, and I wait for opportunities. Kind of boring for me but if I got going on a project I would tune them out.
The opportunities do come. Virginia has recently expressed more interest in sign language, got herself sign language books out of the library and asked for help learning it. I told her I thought it would be easier for her to learn sign language if she had some people to sign with and asked if she wanted to start a sign language club, which we are doing. We also went on-line and bought some posters, a game book, a board game, flash cards (she wanted) and a cookie cutter.
I could choose a project a week (of course only if they girls are interested) and a field trip a month to offer to the kids. That would be a plan :-) ahhhh a plan! And somewhere in there I should fit a movie, I think. ?????
I know this sounds stupid to people that this stuff flows for but this is me. I need a plan.
Is this still unschooling? When would I be crossing the line?
Pat
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In a message dated 2/13/02 8:58:23 AM, homeschoolmd@... writes:
<< I know this sounds stupid to people that this stuff flows for but this is
me. I need a plan.
Is this still unschooling? When would I be crossing the line? >>
Have a plan, no problem. Just don't worry about sticking to it.
Crossing the line would be to say, "No, we can't stay at the museum any
longer, the plan says we have to be making dinner now."
Paula
<< I know this sounds stupid to people that this stuff flows for but this is
me. I need a plan.
Is this still unschooling? When would I be crossing the line? >>
Have a plan, no problem. Just don't worry about sticking to it.
Crossing the line would be to say, "No, we can't stay at the museum any
longer, the plan says we have to be making dinner now."
Paula
Nancy Wooton
on 2/13/02 3:36 AM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:
Nancy ;-)
> I figured one of my cards should be something like "Do something from pageYou know I'm gonna go see what's on page 35 of "The Joy of Sex," don't you?
> 35. It doesn't matter which book."
Nancy ;-)