lyeping2008

I had to share this.

DS is into skate boarding and graffiti painting presently. We're going
to buy some spray cans so that he can do some grafitti painting in the
back garden. While waiting for his dad to get ready, I passed DS a
coffee table book showcasing works from the grafitti artist Banksy's,
which I bought a few weeks ago.

DS was sitting there reading this book, describing Banksy's work to me
and hubby, reading out the text next to each and every photographs. DS
was telling us how long each grafitti pieces were displayed before it
was painted over by the local authorities. Later part of the book,
tells of Banksy sneakily hung his work alongside some fantastic
artwork in very famous art galleries. DS recognised most of the
Banksy's defaced portraits, hung next to the real thing. He started
asking questions like where is the Louvre, where is Vietnam (relating
to one of pictures) and where is Barcelona and many more. DS excitedly
recognised a photograph of the National History Museum and suggested
we should go there again because he likes that place.

I took this chance to point out an unschoolng moment to hubby "There
you go, your son is reading, doing geography, learning about art and
will be doing art lessons later once we get the spray can"

DS heard what I said and replied "I'm not reading mum, I'm just
looking at pictures and yes, it'll be soooo cooool when we get the
spray cans later. I'll need black, white, red, green and orange".


LOL! He is right, he is not reading. He's only absorbing everything by
looking.


Thanks for letting me share my story. Hope you had a lovely
unschooling day too.

Big hugs and best wishes,
SharonBugs

k

A couple weeks ago, Karl ran across a game on one of the TV websites (I
forget which one) marketed for older kids. It had a balloonist traveling by
air to many different parts of the world and in Carmen Sandiego style asked
you to find a certain place on the map/world he was flying over. It was
just a 5 or 10 minute thing then he went on to something else.

Yesterday we opened a some cheese slices (those thick slice cheeses by
Cabot.. yum) and Karl used the feet on my keychain figure of R2D2 to "cut"
the cheese into shapes and held it up to ask me which country it was. When
I answered he'd say "that's right!" just like his games tell him when he
gets the answer right (pretend play, which he does a lot of).

~Katherine




On 10/9/08, lyeping2008 <lyeping2008@...> wrote:
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>
>
>
>
>
> I had to share this.
>
> DS is into skate boarding and graffiti painting presently. We're going
> to buy some spray cans so that he can do some grafitti painting in the
> back garden. While waiting for his dad to get ready, I passed DS a
> coffee table book showcasing works from the grafitti artist Banksy's,
> which I bought a few weeks ago.
>
> DS was sitting there reading this book, describing Banksy's work to me
> and hubby, reading out the text next to each and every photographs. DS
> was telling us how long each grafitti pieces were displayed before it
> was painted over by the local authorities. Later part of the book,
> tells of Banksy sneakily hung his work alongside some fantastic
> artwork in very famous art galleries. DS recognised most of the
> Banksy's defaced portraits, hung next to the real thing. He started
> asking questions like where is the Louvre, where is Vietnam (relating
> to one of pictures) and where is Barcelona and many more. DS excitedly
> recognised a photograph of the National History Museum and suggested
> we should go there again because he likes that place.
>
> I took this chance to point out an unschoolng moment to hubby "There
> you go, your son is reading, doing geography, learning about art and
> will be doing art lessons later once we get the spray can"
>
> DS heard what I said and replied "I'm not reading mum, I'm just
> looking at pictures and yes, it'll be soooo cooool when we get the
> spray cans later. I'll need black, white, red, green and orange".
>
> LOL! He is right, he is not reading. He's only absorbing everything by
> looking.
>
> Thanks for letting me share my story. Hope you had a lovely
> unschooling day too.
>
> Big hugs and best wishes,
> SharonBugs


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lyeping2008

--- In [email protected], k <katherand@...> wrote:
>
> A couple weeks ago, Karl ran across a game on one of the TV
websites (I
> forget which one) marketed for older kids. It had a balloonist
traveling by
> air to many different parts of the world and in Carmen Sandiego
style asked
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Hi Katherine,

I wonder if the game you mentioned has anything to do with the Jules
Vernes Around the World in 80 days. We found this game which is very
addictive. It tells the story too.

http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/around-the-world-in-80-days/

We find this website very interesting too.
http://www.kidsknowit.com/

Hugs,
SharonBugs

k

Oh those look great. I do think it was the around the world in 80 days
thing. When Karl wakes up (it's noon and he's sleeping longer than usual
today), I will show him these links you've sent. Thanks!

~Katherine



On 10/10/08, lyeping2008 <lyeping2008@...> wrote:

> --- In [email protected], k <katherand@...> wrote:
> >
> > A couple weeks ago, Karl ran across a game on one of the TV
> websites (I
> > forget which one) marketed for older kids. It had a balloonist
> traveling by
> > air to many different parts of the world and in Carmen Sandiego
> style asked
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Katherine,
>
> I wonder if the game you mentioned has anything to do with the Jules
> Vernes Around the World in 80 days. We found this game which is very
> addictive. It tells the story too.
>
> http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/around-the-world-in-80-days/
>
> We find this website very interesting too.
> http://www.kidsknowit.com/
>
> Hugs,
> SharonBugs


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