Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] can you tell me what you did today
Alan & Brenda Leonard
2/6/03 22:36:
sticker books, coloring books, etc. Their choice, no rules about having to
do them or having to spend X minutes doing "seatwork".
What you've told us to far is that your child is capable of reading, because
he can read Garfield. He's choosing to learn things visually and orally
from radio and TV. He is computer literate, and likes physical activity.
Toss our the concept of "school", and you'll be unschooling!
As far as what WE did today, let's see:
My son is 6. He played PacMan on his gameboy and beat the entire game on
the "normal" setting. Very exciting for him. I read email during that.
We made breakfast together. (Instant grits. Not THAT exciting!)
Tim had a l-o-n-g bath, I had a shower, and we got dressed. He played with
his cars, and we repaired the broken one. We spent some time working on his
new piano pieces, and he was thrilled to be able to play all the way through
a song using 2 hands together. He read Calvin and Hobbs while I returned
phone calls.
I made lunch, and we gulped it down and ran out the door. (We had too much
fun this moring and were running late!)
Ran 3 errands, including picking up our mail on post (we're military), and
HOORAY! our box finally came (29 days!) from BarnesandNoble.com. A new
Calvin book, and 2 more Garfield. Had to drive 45 miles to buy new tap
dancing shoes, so Tim read parts of his new books on the way.
Bought the shoes, went to the ATM, went to the Pharmacy, went to get some
fried rice because Tim was "starving" again, and then to a friend's house.
I taught my friend's son his cello lesson, and Tim read his current novel
(From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler), and then we stayed
for dinner, so the boys attempted to kill each other while my friend and I
cooked. I think they called it wrestling, and everyone involved was
giggling. We got regular reports from her little girl, so I stayed out of
it.
I went to church choir, and Tim stayed on there. I'm told he spent most of
the evening watching the other boy play a gameboy game.
Typical day? Well, usually we spend more time at home and less time running
errands. But that's pretty typical. Books, comics, gameboy, music,
something physical, toys, maybe a movie or something, some cooking.
Does that help?
brenda
> Right now my oldest just wants to read his Garfield comic books or watch TVNo workbooks unless your kids choose them out of the pile of workbooks,
> or listen to the radio or play on the computer or go sledding. ANYTHING,
> but "school".
sticker books, coloring books, etc. Their choice, no rules about having to
do them or having to spend X minutes doing "seatwork".
What you've told us to far is that your child is capable of reading, because
he can read Garfield. He's choosing to learn things visually and orally
from radio and TV. He is computer literate, and likes physical activity.
Toss our the concept of "school", and you'll be unschooling!
As far as what WE did today, let's see:
My son is 6. He played PacMan on his gameboy and beat the entire game on
the "normal" setting. Very exciting for him. I read email during that.
We made breakfast together. (Instant grits. Not THAT exciting!)
Tim had a l-o-n-g bath, I had a shower, and we got dressed. He played with
his cars, and we repaired the broken one. We spent some time working on his
new piano pieces, and he was thrilled to be able to play all the way through
a song using 2 hands together. He read Calvin and Hobbs while I returned
phone calls.
I made lunch, and we gulped it down and ran out the door. (We had too much
fun this moring and were running late!)
Ran 3 errands, including picking up our mail on post (we're military), and
HOORAY! our box finally came (29 days!) from BarnesandNoble.com. A new
Calvin book, and 2 more Garfield. Had to drive 45 miles to buy new tap
dancing shoes, so Tim read parts of his new books on the way.
Bought the shoes, went to the ATM, went to the Pharmacy, went to get some
fried rice because Tim was "starving" again, and then to a friend's house.
I taught my friend's son his cello lesson, and Tim read his current novel
(From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler), and then we stayed
for dinner, so the boys attempted to kill each other while my friend and I
cooked. I think they called it wrestling, and everyone involved was
giggling. We got regular reports from her little girl, so I stayed out of
it.
I went to church choir, and Tim stayed on there. I'm told he spent most of
the evening watching the other boy play a gameboy game.
Typical day? Well, usually we spend more time at home and less time running
errands. But that's pretty typical. Books, comics, gameboy, music,
something physical, toys, maybe a movie or something, some cooking.
Does that help?
brenda