One day in a rich unschooling life...
callymom2000
First it was to the store to pick out some treats to enjoy with some
new uschooling friends that were coming over for a visit. Dd (7)
decided strawberries with cream would be nice. My children had not
yet met these 2 children that were coming over, they were very
excited.
Dropped oldest dd (15) at the libary, she came home with more books
then she could comfortably carry. My sons (12 & 9) were playing
a card game all morning.
Our new friends arrived, and it took about uhmmmm....2 seconds for
the children to feel comfortable with each other. They were off and
playing, and the mother and I sat and had a cup of tea while the two
young girls happily cut out snow flakes and played barbie, and turned
cart-wheels while listening to N'Sync. My boys showed their new
friend a card game he did not know. They had fun.
After our guest went home, my boys played some of their Monkey Island
game, it is full of problems and puzzles. One son asked me what
ipecac is. I told him, he understood. He said it helped him figure
out one of the puzzles, and he now knows how to spell it. Bonus!(
I had to look it up.)
Cut more snowflakes with dd, and then dinner. After dinner, ds's
wanted to look up on the internet, some of the cards they are
currently collecting. We wondered why some are so different after
they are translated from Japanese to English, or more correctly
American. That was a fun conversation. From looking up those cards
together we ended up on many tangents, from greek mythology to celtic
history. It was very cool. More dots for us to make connections
with. I think what they learned will be with them a long time, and
no boring text book lesson was needed. ;-)
Later that night, because we had so much paper out for the
snowflakes, one son started folding it and the other son said *hey
don't we have a origami book around here....Yeah here it is.* So
they made a boat, bug, T-rex, turtles and something else. Then they
got into minitures, cutting the paper so small I really have no idea
how they were able to fold it. My youngest son, who never tried
origami before really enjoyed it and he started out with some of the
harder folds. I did not know he could do that. I can't.
My oldest son (12) has asked me twice if we could look into a
computer program that helps you learn Japanese. You never know where
thing can lead.....
Over all it was a really great day full of living and learning. I
could not have planned it any better, if I tried. All I had to do
was be there and interested in them. That is easy, I love them and
do not have to pretend to be interested ....ok.... sometimes I do
have to pretend, like when barbie or N'Sync are the topic, but today
she had a friend over who was really interested in that stuff.
Cally
new uschooling friends that were coming over for a visit. Dd (7)
decided strawberries with cream would be nice. My children had not
yet met these 2 children that were coming over, they were very
excited.
Dropped oldest dd (15) at the libary, she came home with more books
then she could comfortably carry. My sons (12 & 9) were playing
a card game all morning.
Our new friends arrived, and it took about uhmmmm....2 seconds for
the children to feel comfortable with each other. They were off and
playing, and the mother and I sat and had a cup of tea while the two
young girls happily cut out snow flakes and played barbie, and turned
cart-wheels while listening to N'Sync. My boys showed their new
friend a card game he did not know. They had fun.
After our guest went home, my boys played some of their Monkey Island
game, it is full of problems and puzzles. One son asked me what
ipecac is. I told him, he understood. He said it helped him figure
out one of the puzzles, and he now knows how to spell it. Bonus!(
I had to look it up.)
Cut more snowflakes with dd, and then dinner. After dinner, ds's
wanted to look up on the internet, some of the cards they are
currently collecting. We wondered why some are so different after
they are translated from Japanese to English, or more correctly
American. That was a fun conversation. From looking up those cards
together we ended up on many tangents, from greek mythology to celtic
history. It was very cool. More dots for us to make connections
with. I think what they learned will be with them a long time, and
no boring text book lesson was needed. ;-)
Later that night, because we had so much paper out for the
snowflakes, one son started folding it and the other son said *hey
don't we have a origami book around here....Yeah here it is.* So
they made a boat, bug, T-rex, turtles and something else. Then they
got into minitures, cutting the paper so small I really have no idea
how they were able to fold it. My youngest son, who never tried
origami before really enjoyed it and he started out with some of the
harder folds. I did not know he could do that. I can't.
My oldest son (12) has asked me twice if we could look into a
computer program that helps you learn Japanese. You never know where
thing can lead.....
Over all it was a really great day full of living and learning. I
could not have planned it any better, if I tried. All I had to do
was be there and interested in them. That is easy, I love them and
do not have to pretend to be interested ....ok.... sometimes I do
have to pretend, like when barbie or N'Sync are the topic, but today
she had a friend over who was really interested in that stuff.
Cally
callymom2000
First it was to the store to pick out some treats to enjoy with some
new uschooling friends that were coming over for a visit. Dd (7)
decided strawberries with cream would be nice. My children had not
yet met these 2 children that were coming over, they were very
excited.
Dropped oldest dd (15) at the libary, she came home with more books
then she could comfortably carry. My sons (12 & 9) were playing
a card game all morning.
Our new friends arrived, and it took about uhmmmm....2 seconds for
the children to feel comfortable with each other. They were off and
playing, and the mother and I sat and had a cup of tea while the two
young girls happily cut out snow flakes and played barbie, and turned
cart-wheels while listening to N'Sync. My boys showed their new
friend a card game he did not know. They had fun.
After our guest went home, my boys played some of their Monkey Island
game, it is full of problems and puzzles. One son asked me what
ipecac is. I told him, he understood. He said it helped him figure
out one of the puzzles, and he now knows how to spell it. Bonus!(
I had to look it up.)
Cut more snowflakes with dd, and then dinner. After dinner, ds's
wanted to look up on the internet, some of the cards they are
currently collecting. We wondered why some are so different after
they are translated from Japanese to English, or more correctly
American. That was a fun conversation. From looking up those cards
together we ended up on many tangents, from greek mythology to celtic
history. It was very cool. More dots for us to make connections
with. I think what they learned will be with them a long time, and
no boring text book lesson was needed. ;-)
Later that night, because we had so much paper out for the
snowflakes, one son started folding it and the other son said *hey
don't we have a origami book around here....Yeah here it is.* So
they made a boat, bug, T-rex, turtles and something else. Then they
got into minitures, cutting the paper so small I really have no idea
how they were able to fold it. My youngest son, who never tried
origami before really enjoyed it and he started out with some of the
harder folds. I did not know he could do that. I can't.
My oldest son (12) has asked me twice if we could look into a
computer program that helps you learn Japanese. You never know where
thing can lead.....
Over all it was a really great day full of living and learning. I
could not have planned it any better, if I tried. All I had to do
was be there and interested in them. That is easy, I love them and
do not have to pretend to be interested ....ok.... sometimes I do
have to pretend, like when barbie or N'Sync are the topic, but today
she had a friend over who was really interested in that stuff.
Cally
new uschooling friends that were coming over for a visit. Dd (7)
decided strawberries with cream would be nice. My children had not
yet met these 2 children that were coming over, they were very
excited.
Dropped oldest dd (15) at the libary, she came home with more books
then she could comfortably carry. My sons (12 & 9) were playing
a card game all morning.
Our new friends arrived, and it took about uhmmmm....2 seconds for
the children to feel comfortable with each other. They were off and
playing, and the mother and I sat and had a cup of tea while the two
young girls happily cut out snow flakes and played barbie, and turned
cart-wheels while listening to N'Sync. My boys showed their new
friend a card game he did not know. They had fun.
After our guest went home, my boys played some of their Monkey Island
game, it is full of problems and puzzles. One son asked me what
ipecac is. I told him, he understood. He said it helped him figure
out one of the puzzles, and he now knows how to spell it. Bonus!(
I had to look it up.)
Cut more snowflakes with dd, and then dinner. After dinner, ds's
wanted to look up on the internet, some of the cards they are
currently collecting. We wondered why some are so different after
they are translated from Japanese to English, or more correctly
American. That was a fun conversation. From looking up those cards
together we ended up on many tangents, from greek mythology to celtic
history. It was very cool. More dots for us to make connections
with. I think what they learned will be with them a long time, and
no boring text book lesson was needed. ;-)
Later that night, because we had so much paper out for the
snowflakes, one son started folding it and the other son said *hey
don't we have a origami book around here....Yeah here it is.* So
they made a boat, bug, T-rex, turtles and something else. Then they
got into minitures, cutting the paper so small I really have no idea
how they were able to fold it. My youngest son, who never tried
origami before really enjoyed it and he started out with some of the
harder folds. I did not know he could do that. I can't.
My oldest son (12) has asked me twice if we could look into a
computer program that helps you learn Japanese. You never know where
thing can lead.....
Over all it was a really great day full of living and learning. I
could not have planned it any better, if I tried. All I had to do
was be there and interested in them. That is easy, I love them and
do not have to pretend to be interested ....ok.... sometimes I do
have to pretend, like when barbie or N'Sync are the topic, but today
she had a friend over who was really interested in that stuff.
Cally