Newbie Introduction
Staci Katsivalis
Hi Everybody
I have been following the posts of today about what is unschooling, and I gather that I will be told fairly quickly if I am in the right place or not.
I am looking for support with regards to unschooling to know if I am "doing it right". I realise that there is no one right way to do it, I guess I just need encouragement from "those-in-the know" that my children aren't going to grow up stupid - although I know that they wont because I watch them daily and am amazed by what they have picked up from various sources.
Having said all of that, my girls are only nearly 6 and 3 1/2 so I also realise that there isn't a panic to "get them educated". I am doing this on my own in that I live in a foreign country, don't speak the language very well and have no friends.
My girls are mostly good friends with each other and spend the whole day playing mostly with Barbie and Winnie the Pooh. I do very little with them except reading a few chapters of a book each day. They do pretty much their own thing while I cook, scrapbook or try learn more about unschooling.
The one thing that I am really looking for is a book-list of titles that would be suitable and encouraging to read to them. There is no English Library here so i have to order books online which isn't as easy as browsing in a book store. I would really appreciate it if any of you know where I can find good book recommendations, if you could post the details or email me directly.
I have loads of other questions to ask, but will wait awhile to see if I am on the right kind of list.
TIA
Staci in Corfu
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I have been following the posts of today about what is unschooling, and I gather that I will be told fairly quickly if I am in the right place or not.
I am looking for support with regards to unschooling to know if I am "doing it right". I realise that there is no one right way to do it, I guess I just need encouragement from "those-in-the know" that my children aren't going to grow up stupid - although I know that they wont because I watch them daily and am amazed by what they have picked up from various sources.
Having said all of that, my girls are only nearly 6 and 3 1/2 so I also realise that there isn't a panic to "get them educated". I am doing this on my own in that I live in a foreign country, don't speak the language very well and have no friends.
My girls are mostly good friends with each other and spend the whole day playing mostly with Barbie and Winnie the Pooh. I do very little with them except reading a few chapters of a book each day. They do pretty much their own thing while I cook, scrapbook or try learn more about unschooling.
The one thing that I am really looking for is a book-list of titles that would be suitable and encouraging to read to them. There is no English Library here so i have to order books online which isn't as easy as browsing in a book store. I would really appreciate it if any of you know where I can find good book recommendations, if you could post the details or email me directly.
I have loads of other questions to ask, but will wait awhile to see if I am on the right kind of list.
TIA
Staci in Corfu
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Helen Hegener
At 10:12 AM +0300 4/10/2002, Staci Katsivalis wrote:
can be intimidating, but it can also be an awesome experience if you
get to know people and get involved even a little bit in their
culture. I was thrilled to find some French cookbooks the other day
and have been playing with some of the recipes for foods I grew very
fond of while over there.
Corfu sounds like an interesting place! Tell us about it?
For much of their childhood we didn't have (or want) a TV, so they
developed rather elaborate games that would go on for days with their
cars and trucks, Playmobil pirates, cowboys, and knights. Were they
learning? Not that I could tell. But these are the hotshot
construction foremen I've written so much about earlier, so they must
have been picking up something, somehow.
we just received six separate copies of one new title the other day,
and I've been scratching my head trying to figure out what to do with
the darn things. I could give some of them to the local support group
for their library - which we will - but they don't need six copies of
the same book either. If you'd be interested in some free books send
me a note offlist <HEM-Editor@...> and I'll send you
a list of the books currently cluttering up my desk. I'll even have
our mailroom send them to you no charge, as it's good enough for me
to know they'll be doing someone some good!
Of course that offer extends to anyone else looking for some free
homeschooling books. First come, first served. <g>
Helen
>Hi EverybodyI hope people will be kinder than that.
>I have been following the posts of today about what is unschooling,
>and I gather that I will be told fairly quickly if I am in the right
>place or not.
>I am looking for support with regards to unschooling to know if I amSounds like you're on the right track already, Staci.
>"doing it right". I realise that there is no one right way to do it,
>I guess I just need encouragement from "those-in-the know" that my
>children aren't going to grow up stupid - although I know that they
>wont because I watch them daily and am amazed by what they have
>picked up from various sources.
>Having said all of that, my girls are only nearly 6 and 3 1/2 so II've lived in foreign countries (France and Germany mostly), and it
>also realise that there isn't a panic to "get them educated". I am
>doing this on my own in that I live in a foreign country, don't
>speak the language very well and have no friends.
can be intimidating, but it can also be an awesome experience if you
get to know people and get involved even a little bit in their
culture. I was thrilled to find some French cookbooks the other day
and have been playing with some of the recipes for foods I grew very
fond of while over there.
Corfu sounds like an interesting place! Tell us about it?
>My girls are mostly good friends with each other and spend the wholeFor my kids it was primarily Hot Wheels, Lego Bricks, and Playmobil.
>day playing mostly with Barbie and Winnie the Pooh. I do very little
>with them except reading a few chapters of a book each day. They do
>pretty much their own thing while I cook, scrapbook or try learn
>more about unschooling.
For much of their childhood we didn't have (or want) a TV, so they
developed rather elaborate games that would go on for days with their
cars and trucks, Playmobil pirates, cowboys, and knights. Were they
learning? Not that I could tell. But these are the hotshot
construction foremen I've written so much about earlier, so they must
have been picking up something, somehow.
>The one thing that I am really looking for is a book-list of titlesYou know, we receive a ton of homeschooling books for review here -
>that would be suitable and encouraging to read to them. There is no
>English Library here so i have to order books online which isn't as
>easy as browsing in a book store. I would really appreciate it if
>any of you know where I can find good book recommendations, if you
>could post the details or email me directly.
we just received six separate copies of one new title the other day,
and I've been scratching my head trying to figure out what to do with
the darn things. I could give some of them to the local support group
for their library - which we will - but they don't need six copies of
the same book either. If you'd be interested in some free books send
me a note offlist <HEM-Editor@...> and I'll send you
a list of the books currently cluttering up my desk. I'll even have
our mailroom send them to you no charge, as it's good enough for me
to know they'll be doing someone some good!
Of course that offer extends to anyone else looking for some free
homeschooling books. First come, first served. <g>
Helen
Tia Leschke
>Isn't that where Gerald Durrell (sp?) spent his childhood?
>Corfu sounds like an interesting place! Tell us about it?
Tia
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island
Tia Leschke
>Here's a list that an unschooling mother posted on another list. These are
>The one thing that I am really looking for is a book-list of titles that
>would be suitable and encouraging to read to them. There is no English
>Library here so i have to order books online which isn't as easy as
>browsing in a book store. I would really appreciate it if any of you know
>where I can find good book recommendations, if you could post the details
>or email me directly.
books she read to her son (or he read later on) between the ages of about 6
to 11. Hope it helps. I think they're more or less in the order they read
them, so the ones at the top would be for a younger child.
My Father's Dragon.
Elmer and the Dragon.
The Dragons of Blueland.
all three by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Catwings, & Catwings Return. both by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Children of Noisy Village. by Astrid Lindgren
Babe the Gallant Pig. by Dick King-Smith.
Brambly Hedge stories. by Jill Barklem.
Harriet's Hare. by Dick King-Smith
Ten In A Bed. by Allen Ahlberg & Andre Amstutz
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. by Roald Dahl
The Cuckoo Child. by Dick King-Smith.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. by Roald Dahl.
Peter Pan. J. M. Barrie. an easy to read version.
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings. by Ursula K. LeGuin
Farmer Boy. by Laura Ingalls Wilder
James and the Giant Peach. by Roald Dahl.
Finn Family Moomintroll. by Tove Jansson
Comet in Moominland. by Tove Jansson
Moominsummer Madness. by Tove Jansson
Moominland Midwinter. by Tove Jansson
Moominpappa at Sea. by Tove Jansson
Moominpappa's Memoirs. by Tove Jansson
Tales from Moominvalley. by Tove Jansson
Tomorrow's Wizard. by Patricia MacLachlan.
Dinotopia. abandoned 1/2 way thru. still too much to hear.
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. by Roald Dahl.
The Littles series. by John Peterson
Elfsong. by Ann Turner
The Bear Nobody Wanted. by Janet & Allan Ahlberg.
The Nearsighted Knight. by Mary Francis Shura.
The Wainscott Weasel. by Tor Seidler.
Daggie Dogfoot. by Dick King-Smith.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. by Frank Baum.
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren.
The Borrowers. by Mary Norton.
several poem books including those by:
Shel Siverstein
Jack Prelutsky
A. A. Milne
The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings. Vol 1-3. J.R.R. Tolkien
Dealing with Dragons.
Searching for Dragons.
Calling on Dragons.
Talking to Dragons. all by Patricia C. Wrede
The Wind Boy. by Ethel Cook Eliot
The King of Ireland's Son. by Padraic Colum
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. by J. K. Rowling
Winnie-the-Pooh. A. A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner. A. A. Milne
The Ransom of Red Chief. by O. Henry
Little House in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. by J. K. Rowling
Redwall. by Brian Jacques.
The Phantom Tollbooth. by Norton Juster.
Number Devil.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. by Julie Lane
Five Children and It. by E. Nesbit.
The Chronicles of Prydain. five books by Lloyd Alexander
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King
The Magical Land of Noom. by Johnny Gruelle. (1922)
The Violin Man. by Maureen Brett Hooper
The Princess & the Goblin. by George MacDonald. (1870)
The Dark Is Rising. by Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone. (1st volume)(he read the rest himself)
Safe Return. by Catherine Dexter.
Witch Witch.
Swallows and Amazones. by Arthur Ransome.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. by J. K. Rowling
Tatterhood and other Tales. edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps
A Wrinkle in Time. by Madeleine L'Engle
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island
[email protected]
> >The one thing that I am really looking for is a book-list of titles thatYou might want to get hold of "The New Read-Aloud Handbook" by Jim Trelease.
> >would be suitable and encouraging to read to them.
It has annotated book suggestions of different types for different ages.
Great book. Bet you can get it cheap on half.com, too.
--pamS
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Fetteroll
> The one thing that I am really looking for is a book-list of titles thatCheck out the Chinaberry catalog. http://www.chinaberry.com
> would be suitable and encouraging to read to them.
They have a wonderful nurturing collection. Lots of the ones Tia recommended
are in there plus lots more.
Joyce