Intoduction.
michele clausen
Hi everyone,
I am new to this list and so thought I would introduce myself. My name
is Michele
and I live in New Zealand with my husband and two daughters who are 6
and 4.
We have until just recently followed a semi-structured approach to our
homeschooling life, producing a worried Mum and two fed up girls! I was
continually fretting about scope and sequences and worring about whether
the girls were learning everything on time or not etc, etc!!!! Anyway we
have finished our school holiday season over here and saw during that
time how much our girls have blossomed in their learning and in attitude
as well. It made us really examine what we were doing and so......we
decided to change. The first thing we did was order the Unschooling
Handbook by Mary Griffith (?), and since then we haven't looked back. My
eldest is reading us and our library out of books and has also (on her
own) started obsessively finding anything out about the Holocaust and
WW2 that she can. This is a complete turn around for her!!!!!!!! Dh and
I are happier than we have been in ages and its thanks to a new
unschooling attitude.
So that is part of our homeschooling story and I look forward to
learning more and more thru this list. If anyone can recommend any other
unschooling books to read
I would be very grateful.
Thanks for reading,
Michele.
I am new to this list and so thought I would introduce myself. My name
is Michele
and I live in New Zealand with my husband and two daughters who are 6
and 4.
We have until just recently followed a semi-structured approach to our
homeschooling life, producing a worried Mum and two fed up girls! I was
continually fretting about scope and sequences and worring about whether
the girls were learning everything on time or not etc, etc!!!! Anyway we
have finished our school holiday season over here and saw during that
time how much our girls have blossomed in their learning and in attitude
as well. It made us really examine what we were doing and so......we
decided to change. The first thing we did was order the Unschooling
Handbook by Mary Griffith (?), and since then we haven't looked back. My
eldest is reading us and our library out of books and has also (on her
own) started obsessively finding anything out about the Holocaust and
WW2 that she can. This is a complete turn around for her!!!!!!!! Dh and
I are happier than we have been in ages and its thanks to a new
unschooling attitude.
So that is part of our homeschooling story and I look forward to
learning more and more thru this list. If anyone can recommend any other
unschooling books to read
I would be very grateful.
Thanks for reading,
Michele.
David Albert
My favorite is Nancy Wallace's "Child's Work".
David Albert
Joshua Heath wrote:
"If you love being stopped mid-page by powerful observations that strike
your mind like little explosions of light, get this book."-Home
Education Magazine. To read reviewer or reader comments, or the
foreword from "And the Skylark Sings with Me", and to order, check out
the new website: www.skylarksings.com
David Albert
Joshua Heath wrote:
> From: "Joshua Heath" <heathfam@...>--
>
>
> If anyone can recommend any other unschooling books to read
>
> I would be very grateful.
> Thanks for reading,
> Michele.
>
> Welcome Michele,
>
> I too am new to unschooling and will be interested in the
> reccomendations people make. I am currently reading
> "Deschooling our Lives," a collection of writings edited by
> Matt Hern. It is a good little collection... More
> philosophically/ academically oriented than the Unschooling
> Handbook. Not so practical, but very good for spurring one
> to think a little deeper... and have a more sophistocated
> way to explain it to your friends...
>
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your mind like little explosions of light, get this book."-Home
Education Magazine. To read reviewer or reader comments, or the
foreword from "And the Skylark Sings with Me", and to order, check out
the new website: www.skylarksings.com
Joshua Heath
If anyone can recommend any other unschooling books to read
I would be very grateful.
Thanks for reading,
Michele.
Welcome Michele,
I too am new to unschooling and will be interested in the reccomendations people make. I am currently reading "Deschooling our Lives," a collection of writings edited by Matt Hern. It is a good little collection... More philosophically/ academically oriented than the Unschooling Handbook. Not so practical, but very good for spurring one to think a little deeper... and have a more sophistocated way to explain it to your friends...
I would be very grateful.
Thanks for reading,
Michele.
Welcome Michele,
I too am new to unschooling and will be interested in the reccomendations people make. I am currently reading "Deschooling our Lives," a collection of writings edited by Matt Hern. It is a good little collection... More philosophically/ academically oriented than the Unschooling Handbook. Not so practical, but very good for spurring one to think a little deeper... and have a more sophistocated way to explain it to your friends...
A. Yates
Hi Michele,
Welcome to the list.
I always recommend my two favorite unschooling authors. John Holt, and
Grace Llwelyn. (sp?) I love both of their work. After reading Grace,
I was wishing I had been able to stay home.
Enjoy the list, it is a great bunch of people.
I don't know if you saw my post about pen pals or not, but our support
group here in North Carolina is looking for pen pals. If your
interested, let me know.
Ann
Welcome to the list.
I always recommend my two favorite unschooling authors. John Holt, and
Grace Llwelyn. (sp?) I love both of their work. After reading Grace,
I was wishing I had been able to stay home.
Enjoy the list, it is a great bunch of people.
I don't know if you saw my post about pen pals or not, but our support
group here in North Carolina is looking for pen pals. If your
interested, let me know.
Ann
Brown
Hi Michelle
Welcome to the list - remember me? I used to be on the nzunschoolers
list. You'll find this is a very supportive and helpful list. Everything
you ever wanted to know about what to feed your cat, how to care for
chooks (as long as you realise that most of the people on this list call
them chickens), and unschooling! <bg>
Carol
in New Zealand
michele clausen wrote:
Welcome to the list - remember me? I used to be on the nzunschoolers
list. You'll find this is a very supportive and helpful list. Everything
you ever wanted to know about what to feed your cat, how to care for
chooks (as long as you realise that most of the people on this list call
them chickens), and unschooling! <bg>
Carol
in New Zealand
michele clausen wrote:
> I am new to this list and so thought I would introduce myself. My name
> is Michele
> and I live in New Zealand with my husband and two daughters who are 6
> and 4. <cut>
Tracy Oldfield
or hens even, chicken is to hen what pork is to pig in my brain, anyhow :-)
btw, what should we feed our cats? we are stuggling with ours, they're either throwing up or not eating what we give them. Any ideas???
Tracy
btw, what should we feed our cats? we are stuggling with ours, they're either throwing up or not eating what we give them. Any ideas???
Tracy
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 5:08 AM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Intoduction.
From: Brown <mjcmbrwn@...>
Hi Michelle
Welcome to the list - remember me? I used to be on the nzunschoolers
list. You'll find this is a very supportive and helpful list. Everything
you ever wanted to know about what to feed your cat, how to care for
chooks (as long as you realise that most of the people on this list call
them chickens), and unschooling! <bg>
Carol
in New Zealand
michele clausen wrote:
> I am new to this list and so thought I would introduce myself. My name
> is Michele
> and I live in New Zealand with my husband and two daughters who are 6
> and 4. <cut>
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<<btw, what should we feed our cats? we are stuggling with ours, they're either throwing up or not eating what we give them. Any ideas???>>
Tracy, we feed our cats only a dry, hi-protein pellet food. (not, an expensive brand) and they are all healthy as can be. We do have one occasional barfer - but she's also the nervous one. Every once in a while I'll give them a little treat, like meat, but that's it. Plenty of water, no milk.
If you aren't feeding them dry food right now, they might rebel and not eat for a while - you know how stubborn cats can be. But, they will relent and eat it eventually - everything I've read says it is much better to feed your domesticated animals this way.
We have five cats and they all seem to be very healthy and happy. Hope this helps!
Betsy Wright
The Wright Way To Homeschool
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/homeschoolingwrights
email: deejay@...
I can do everything through Him who strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13
Tracy, we feed our cats only a dry, hi-protein pellet food. (not, an expensive brand) and they are all healthy as can be. We do have one occasional barfer - but she's also the nervous one. Every once in a while I'll give them a little treat, like meat, but that's it. Plenty of water, no milk.
If you aren't feeding them dry food right now, they might rebel and not eat for a while - you know how stubborn cats can be. But, they will relent and eat it eventually - everything I've read says it is much better to feed your domesticated animals this way.
We have five cats and they all seem to be very healthy and happy. Hope this helps!
Betsy Wright
The Wright Way To Homeschool
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/homeschoolingwrights
email: deejay@...
I can do everything through Him who strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13
Tracy Oldfield
Well they're on dry food now and we still have chucking up and various other noxious stuff. But I think that's mostly due to scavenging and seemingly me being the only person who ever thinks to freshen their water. The barfer's also a habitual toilet-water-drinker, spot the link? He's thwarted most of the time as I'm following the Feng Shui practice of keeping the lids down and the bathroom doors shut, I guess I need to think of a remedy for this, a rain-butt with a slow drip maybe.
Thanks for the input :-)
Tracy
Thanks for the input :-)
Tracy
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From: David & Betsy Wright
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Intoduction.
From: "David & Betsy Wright" <deejay@...>
<<btw, what should we feed our cats? we are stuggling with ours, they're either throwing up or not eating what we give them. Any ideas???>>
Tracy, we feed our cats only a dry, hi-protein pellet food. (not, an expensive brand) and they are all healthy as can be. We do have one occasional barfer - but she's also the nervous one. Every once in a while I'll give them a little treat, like meat, but that's it. Plenty of water, no milk.
If you aren't feeding them dry food right now, they might rebel and not eat for a while - you know how stubborn cats can be. But, they will relent and eat it eventually - everything I've read says it is much better to feed your domesticated animals this way.
We have five cats and they all seem to be very healthy and happy. Hope this helps!
Betsy Wright
The Wright Way To Homeschool
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/homeschoolingwrights
email: deejay@...
I can do everything through Him who strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13
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in answer to feeding your cats..I'm right in line with Betsy on this one..my
five cats only eat dry food, and water too!!....they are just fine..healthy
and playful...and no one seems to mind...we started feeding them this way,
when my 2 cats grew into 6.. we just kept adopting...having just dry down is
just that much easier around here.... we just recently started having a
problem with my dog eating their food, but that's just because he is on new
medication for his bad hip, and it makes him really hungry...other than
that......that is just my .02 on this subject...
eileen
five cats only eat dry food, and water too!!....they are just fine..healthy
and playful...and no one seems to mind...we started feeding them this way,
when my 2 cats grew into 6.. we just kept adopting...having just dry down is
just that much easier around here.... we just recently started having a
problem with my dog eating their food, but that's just because he is on new
medication for his bad hip, and it makes him really hungry...other than
that......that is just my .02 on this subject...
eileen
[email protected]
if i had just read thru all my email before I replied...I would have known
you are working out the cat thing and indeed did not require my .02..sorry
for being so late, or jumping the gun on my email....
anybody else really tired of winter yet????!!!!!!!??????
Eileen
you are working out the cat thing and indeed did not require my .02..sorry
for being so late, or jumping the gun on my email....
anybody else really tired of winter yet????!!!!!!!??????
Eileen
michele clausen
HI Carol.
Yes I do remember you!!!!! So this is where you went! The NZ list is
not the same! :o)
I hope your move to the country is everything you hoped it would be.
Michele.
Yes I do remember you!!!!! So this is where you went! The NZ list is
not the same! :o)
I hope your move to the country is everything you hoped it would be.
Michele.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brown
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 5:08 AM
> Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Intoduction.
> From: Brown <mjcmbrwn@...>
>
> Hi Michelle
>
> Welcome to the list - remember me? I used to be on the
> nzunschoolers
> list. You'll find this is a very supportive and helpful
> list. Everything
> you ever wanted to know about what to feed your cat, how to
> care for
> chooks (as long as you realise that most of the people on
> this list call
> them chickens), and unschooling! <bg>
>
> Carol
> in New Zealand
>
> michele clausen wrote:
>
> > I am new to this list and so thought I would introduce
> myself. My name
> > is Michele
> > and I live in New Zealand with my husband and two
> daughters who are 6
> > and 4. <cut>
>
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Tracy Oldfield
We haven't had any proper snow yet :-( I wanna go play!!!!!!!!! I put my order in last night, but all we're getting are 'wintry showers.' Pah, seen better snow in a snow-dome! Spring's springing a little already around here, and the kids play out whatever, so naw, not really.
Tracy
Tracy
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From: JazBallard@...
if i had just read thru all my email before I replied...I would have known
you are working out the cat thing and indeed did not require my .02..sorry
for being so late, or jumping the gun on my email....
anybody else really tired of winter yet????!!!!!!!??????
Eileen
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Michelle
Living in the country is great - tiring, exhausting, but great. And
being so close to the sea - when we finished working today, it was off
to the beach for a swim (yes, all you poor northern hemispherites, it's
summer and hot here). We have nearly finished our shed (double garage
plus large room) and hope to move in in about 3 weeks - then all we have
to do is build the house, clear the gorse, plant the trees, grow the
gardens...... Another 30 - 40 years and we might just about be there!
Carol
michele clausen wrote:
Living in the country is great - tiring, exhausting, but great. And
being so close to the sea - when we finished working today, it was off
to the beach for a swim (yes, all you poor northern hemispherites, it's
summer and hot here). We have nearly finished our shed (double garage
plus large room) and hope to move in in about 3 weeks - then all we have
to do is build the house, clear the gorse, plant the trees, grow the
gardens...... Another 30 - 40 years and we might just about be there!
Carol
michele clausen wrote:
> HI Carol.
> Yes I do remember you!!!!! So this is where you went! The NZ list is
> not the same! :o)
> I hope your move to the country is everything you hoped it would be.
> Michele.