unschool schoolgirl
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Hello,
Just a note to reconnect with the list. I have 3 kids, all who have been home
with me living and learning. We had a tough year last year, with my oldest
almost 8 year old being fussy and her brother bugging her. She asked and asked
to go to school. So I signed her up. Off she goes every day with her dad and
the neighborhood kids. She likes the structure her teacher provides. She is
observing everything. We pick her up at 2:30. Such a radical scedule change
for me.
Today after school she decided to make a grid and chart all the kids in her
class. She made categories . Super nice, nice, kinda nice, kinda mean, really
mean. She wants to see how the kids in her class do for several days. She aked
for 50 copies of her chart.
I'm getting to understand what she needs from school. I see her as an
unschooled schoolgirl. Being a schoolgirl is her passion right now. She is
living, breathing school. She is finding out what she likes and does not like.
I still cringe when I hear some of the playground attitudes. She is expanding.
She is learning how to be alive and in the world without me and she enjoys the
challenge. Where she would whine with me for being hot, she now is hot,
uncomfortable, and gets through it. I'm sad still she not with us, and glad
too she fledging a bit. I see her coming home so glad to be able to strip into
nothing, curl up in her bed and read, her style. She thinks it's funny that
people are asked to read at least 20 minutes each day. Her friends translate
that to only 20 minutes.
Well, I'll go now. I've been expanding and growing and surrendering these
first few school weeks and now I get to panic a bit about 5.5 son and his
wilds and potty talk and throwing balls at people and grabbing his sisters
doll. O.K. I know why he does this, I'm talking on the phone. I need to go
shoot baskets with him, again.
Mary H.
Just a note to reconnect with the list. I have 3 kids, all who have been home
with me living and learning. We had a tough year last year, with my oldest
almost 8 year old being fussy and her brother bugging her. She asked and asked
to go to school. So I signed her up. Off she goes every day with her dad and
the neighborhood kids. She likes the structure her teacher provides. She is
observing everything. We pick her up at 2:30. Such a radical scedule change
for me.
Today after school she decided to make a grid and chart all the kids in her
class. She made categories . Super nice, nice, kinda nice, kinda mean, really
mean. She wants to see how the kids in her class do for several days. She aked
for 50 copies of her chart.
I'm getting to understand what she needs from school. I see her as an
unschooled schoolgirl. Being a schoolgirl is her passion right now. She is
living, breathing school. She is finding out what she likes and does not like.
I still cringe when I hear some of the playground attitudes. She is expanding.
She is learning how to be alive and in the world without me and she enjoys the
challenge. Where she would whine with me for being hot, she now is hot,
uncomfortable, and gets through it. I'm sad still she not with us, and glad
too she fledging a bit. I see her coming home so glad to be able to strip into
nothing, curl up in her bed and read, her style. She thinks it's funny that
people are asked to read at least 20 minutes each day. Her friends translate
that to only 20 minutes.
Well, I'll go now. I've been expanding and growing and surrendering these
first few school weeks and now I get to panic a bit about 5.5 son and his
wilds and potty talk and throwing balls at people and grabbing his sisters
doll. O.K. I know why he does this, I'm talking on the phone. I need to go
shoot baskets with him, again.
Mary H.
MO Milligans
At 11:08 PM 9/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
Glad she's seemingly doing so well, Mary H. :) Let us know what that chart
shows, okay?
Todd
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
I will choose Free will" -Rush (and Todd)
http://rambleman.tripod.com/index.html
>I'm getting to understand what she needs from school. I see her as an==
>unschooled schoolgirl.
Glad she's seemingly doing so well, Mary H. :) Let us know what that chart
shows, okay?
Todd
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
I will choose Free will" -Rush (and Todd)
http://rambleman.tripod.com/index.html
Betsy
It sounds like she might be an anthropologist or a psychologist when she
grows up. She needs kids around her so she can study them! ;-)
Betsy
**Today after school she decided to make a grid and chart all the kids
in her
class. She made categories . Super nice, nice, kinda nice, kinda mean, really
mean. She wants to see how the kids in her class do for several days.
She aked
for 50 copies of her chart.
I'm getting to understand what she needs from school.**
grows up. She needs kids around her so she can study them! ;-)
Betsy
**Today after school she decided to make a grid and chart all the kids
in her
class. She made categories . Super nice, nice, kinda nice, kinda mean, really
mean. She wants to see how the kids in her class do for several days.
She aked
for 50 copies of her chart.
I'm getting to understand what she needs from school.**
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In a message dated 9/21/02 9:28:59 AM, ecsamhill@... writes:
<< It sounds like she might be an anthropologist or a psychologist when she
grows up. She needs kids around her so she can study them! ;-) >>
I used to be that way with kids and teachers at school.
I was forever interviewing them and asking them why. It's called "nosey"
when you're a kid, not "clinical." <g>
Holly's that way with other families. I guess if she were in school it would
transfer to teachers and classes, but because she's not, it's how parents are
with their kids, and how kids respond to different kinds of situations.
Now I love to watch her watch other people! <g>
Sandra
<< It sounds like she might be an anthropologist or a psychologist when she
grows up. She needs kids around her so she can study them! ;-) >>
I used to be that way with kids and teachers at school.
I was forever interviewing them and asking them why. It's called "nosey"
when you're a kid, not "clinical." <g>
Holly's that way with other families. I guess if she were in school it would
transfer to teachers and classes, but because she's not, it's how parents are
with their kids, and how kids respond to different kinds of situations.
Now I love to watch her watch other people! <g>
Sandra