scrunchy

Those of you who have been at this for a while, might not be
surprised at this, but I am excited.
About 5pm, my husband decided to install 'Where in Time is Carmen
SanDiego' on the computer he and our share to play games. ( Their
original game data was lost in a computer crash a few months ago.) Part
of the way into it, our son came in to see what was going on. They
started playing it a few minutes afterwards. It is now 10pm and they are
still playing it. They have stopped only for a few minutes to eat when
they got hungry.
I am sitting here on the other computer listening and watching in
delight as they play and my son learns. My husband is gently guiding him
when needed. They take turns at the computer and are enjoying
themselves.
Will unschooling ever cease to amaze me?? I hope not.
Norma

Scott Cook

-I am brand new to this group and new to homeschooling as well - took
our 4 kids (5th, 4th, 2nd, 1st grades) out of school in November, but
every time I get concerned that my unschooling approach is just TOO
unstructured (there are very few unschoolers for support here in
Northern Virginia), my kids remind me that we're doing just fine. My
youngest daughter - 1st grade - has had almost no formal instruction
since leaving school in November. At Price Club last week she begged
for a workbook so I bought her the only one they had in stock - 2nd
grade. Last night she brought me the book and asked me to check her
work. Turns out she had completed 10 or 12 pages of math and had
gotten every problem right!! Humm. . . Begged for work, did it
independently and got over 100 problems correct with no errors . . .
Me thinks the teacher who disapproved of my removing her from school
would be green with envy!!

Laurel





-- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., scrunchy <scrunchy@s...> wrote:
> Those of you who have been at this for a while, might not be
> surprised at this, but I am excited.
> About 5pm, my husband decided to install 'Where in Time is Carmen
> SanDiego' on the computer he and our share to play games. ( Their
> original game data was lost in a computer crash a few months ago.)
Part
> of the way into it, our son came in to see what was going on. They
> started playing it a few minutes afterwards. It is now 10pm and
they are
> still playing it. They have stopped only for a few minutes to eat
when
> they got hungry.
> I am sitting here on the other computer listening and watching
in
> delight as they play and my son learns. My husband is gently
guiding him
> when needed. They take turns at the computer and are enjoying
> themselves.
> Will unschooling ever cease to amaze me?? I hope not.
> Norma

[email protected]

In a message dated 5/29/2001 6:01:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
scottcook@... writes:

<< (there are very few unschoolers for support here in
Northern Virginia), >>

Laurel,

Have you found the [email protected] list? I'm near
Richmond, but it always looks (to me) like there are quite a few unschoolers
in Northern VA. They are always planning neat trips and get togethers that I
wish weren't QUITE so far from us. I guess the grass is always greener ... :)

Laura in Ashland

Sharon Rudd

--- scrunchy <scrunchy@...> wrote:

> I am
> listening and watching in
> delight as they play and my son learns. My husband
> is gently guiding him
> when needed.
Will unschooling ever cease to amaze me?? I hope
> not.
> Norma

Will good parenting ever cease to bless us all? I hope
not.
Sharon

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