A Message From The Kidlets
Lynda
I hope this doesn't come under spamming but the
following is a letter the kidlets put together after reading e-mails over my
shoulder and listening to me vent.
Lynda
If Ignorance Is Bliss Why Aren't More People Happy?
If Ignorance Is Bliss Why Aren't More People Happy?
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Hello, we are Derek, Kirk and Krystin and we are
homeschoolers. We are Wiyot and live in Northern California. We were
listening to our mom when she was talking about how people are always doing
things for people in other countries and never realize that one of the poorest
places in the world is right here in the U.S.
We asked her about this and, being unschoolers, she
gave us one of those looks. So we headed to the library and then got on
the net to do some research and we were really surprised at what we found!
We decided to "adopt" the elderly living on the "cold" reservations.
Winter is the worst time because only one out of every five hogans has any
reliable source of heat. We decided to learn to crochet and make
afghans.
We set a goal of each of us getting one afghan done
before Christmas. But, we got to thinking that wouldn't be very
much. We put this letter together so that maybe other homeschoolers would
join us in our project which we call "Stop The Frostbite."
So, since we think unschoolers and homeschoolers
are the greatest people in the world, we thought some other kids might like to
help. Mom says that folks who have to do portfolios can use this as
history, current events, math (counting all those chains and crochets and
working with patterns), art and community service.
You can e-mail us at lurine@.... We will be
putting together a big box to mail on December 15 and will try to do one every
six weeks after that.
Respectfully,
Your homeschooling friends
Derek, Kirk and Krystin
P.S. If you have any coats, sweaters or
blankets you might want to donate, our mom has addresses to send them
to.