unschooling at the Dr.'s Office
Rose
We did math at the Dr.'s office. (please bare with me as I am not a full
time unschooler yet)
We were on the fifth floor and my son looks down. He asks how high we are.
I tell him 5 stories. He ask me how many feet. I tell him about 10 feet per
floor would make it around 50 feet. THAN he asked how many inches that
would be. I tell him there are 12 inches in a foot, and we are 50 feet up.
What could we do?
I just a moment he said 12 x 50 !!
Now he didn't figure out the answer until we got home and I put it on paper
for him, but HE did figure it out.
I was so proud :D.
We have not learned the multiplication table but he wants to learn to
multiply (since first grade) and totally understands the concept and can do
simple multiplication. Although I have not 'drilled' multiplying.
Ok.. sorry I had to brag about our 'unschool moment' today..
Rose
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time unschooler yet)
We were on the fifth floor and my son looks down. He asks how high we are.
I tell him 5 stories. He ask me how many feet. I tell him about 10 feet per
floor would make it around 50 feet. THAN he asked how many inches that
would be. I tell him there are 12 inches in a foot, and we are 50 feet up.
What could we do?
I just a moment he said 12 x 50 !!
Now he didn't figure out the answer until we got home and I put it on paper
for him, but HE did figure it out.
I was so proud :D.
We have not learned the multiplication table but he wants to learn to
multiply (since first grade) and totally understands the concept and can do
simple multiplication. Although I have not 'drilled' multiplying.
Ok.. sorry I had to brag about our 'unschool moment' today..
Rose
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pam sorooshian
On Jan 16, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Rose wrote:
your head. 10 times 50 is 500. 2 X 50 is another 100 so the total is
600.
You might help him think of it this way so he doesn't have to wait to
find paper and pencil next time.
-pam
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>12 times 50 is just 10 times 50 plus 2 times 50. That's easy to do in
> I just a moment he said 12 x 50 !!
>
>
>
> Now he didn't figure out the answer until we got home and I put it on
> paper
> for him, but HE did figure it out.
your head. 10 times 50 is 500. 2 X 50 is another 100 so the total is
600.
You might help him think of it this way so he doesn't have to wait to
find paper and pencil next time.
-pam
National Home Education Network
<www.NHEN.org>
Serving the entire homeschooling community since 1999
through information, networking and public relations.
[email protected]
Kirby came looking for a calculator, or help, with the new Final Fantasy
game. He said "What is 640 times 99?"
I said it's 100 times 640, minus 640, one for each of the hundreds. He
understood that, but I pulled up the calculator on the mac and gave him the
answer before he did that calculation, which is fine. He needed it to figure out
how rich he was going to be figuring out that he could sell some stuff back to
the same guy he'd bought it from, or something. He asked if there was a
loose calculator he could take back in there, and there was one here Holly had
been using. I kept hearing him hoot happily and was going in to see what was
going on. He was on a ship, buying stuff on one side and selling it back for
more on the other. And all the things he had bought for 99 whatevers each, he'd
found a place buying them for 125. I asked him if he NEEDED money in the
game. He didn't know, he was just having fun racking up those units of whatever
and laughing about it.
He's had a long week, and this was the first time he's been without company
or a deadline or someone expecting him to pick them up or do something for
several days. It's nice to see him ... I started to say "relaxing" but he's not
relaxing. He's engrossed in something that's just fun.
Now Marty's in there talking to him. They're finally quieting down.
Holly went to sleep about 1:00 a.m. (it's 1:49 and I should've gone to bed,
but I cleaned up the kitchen instead) with her new baby rat in its cage on the
bed next to her (she has our old queensize so it's not as crowded as it might
sound). She's afraid the baby's missing its mom, and it could be true. We've
been letting it suck milk off soaked bread crusts several times a day. On
the Simpsons once there was rat's milk, but we only have cow's milk. We put
some rice in one of Holly's socks, tied it off and heated it up to put on top
of the rat's kleenex box sleeping cave, but she came up and lay down on top of
the warm rice and looked VERY comfortable.
That wasn't about math. That was just a peaceful thing happening upstairs
from where Kirby and Marty are discussing various games' money and points and
other imaginary economic issues.
I'm going to go and read some more irritating Jane Austen and fall asleep
next to my snoring, warm husband.
Sandra
game. He said "What is 640 times 99?"
I said it's 100 times 640, minus 640, one for each of the hundreds. He
understood that, but I pulled up the calculator on the mac and gave him the
answer before he did that calculation, which is fine. He needed it to figure out
how rich he was going to be figuring out that he could sell some stuff back to
the same guy he'd bought it from, or something. He asked if there was a
loose calculator he could take back in there, and there was one here Holly had
been using. I kept hearing him hoot happily and was going in to see what was
going on. He was on a ship, buying stuff on one side and selling it back for
more on the other. And all the things he had bought for 99 whatevers each, he'd
found a place buying them for 125. I asked him if he NEEDED money in the
game. He didn't know, he was just having fun racking up those units of whatever
and laughing about it.
He's had a long week, and this was the first time he's been without company
or a deadline or someone expecting him to pick them up or do something for
several days. It's nice to see him ... I started to say "relaxing" but he's not
relaxing. He's engrossed in something that's just fun.
Now Marty's in there talking to him. They're finally quieting down.
Holly went to sleep about 1:00 a.m. (it's 1:49 and I should've gone to bed,
but I cleaned up the kitchen instead) with her new baby rat in its cage on the
bed next to her (she has our old queensize so it's not as crowded as it might
sound). She's afraid the baby's missing its mom, and it could be true. We've
been letting it suck milk off soaked bread crusts several times a day. On
the Simpsons once there was rat's milk, but we only have cow's milk. We put
some rice in one of Holly's socks, tied it off and heated it up to put on top
of the rat's kleenex box sleeping cave, but she came up and lay down on top of
the warm rice and looked VERY comfortable.
That wasn't about math. That was just a peaceful thing happening upstairs
from where Kirby and Marty are discussing various games' money and points and
other imaginary economic issues.
I'm going to go and read some more irritating Jane Austen and fall asleep
next to my snoring, warm husband.
Sandra
Danielle Conger
I'm going to go and read some more irritating Jane Austen and fall asleep
next to my snoring, warm husband.
Sandra
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So...
Which one and why irritating? Couldn't resist asking.
--danielle
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next to my snoring, warm husband.
Sandra
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So...
Which one and why irritating? Couldn't resist asking.
--danielle
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Wife2Vegman
--- SandraDodd@... wrote:
irritates you? LOL!
Those books drive me crazy too, and my daughter too.
We yell at the PBS shows' characters as well, telling
them to just TALK to each other honestly.
One of Sarah's favorite "insults" to hurl at someone
is to call them "a Mr. Darcy".
And yet we still watch them. I think it has to be
that we enjoy the verbal sparring that goes on, as
people in our family are quite quick-witted and enjoy
playing on each other's words.
Not in the mean-spirited way it can be done in
Austen's works, though.
=====
--Susan in VA
WifetoVegman
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> I'm going to go and read some more irritating JaneJust curious, Sandra...why do you read it if it
> Austen and fall asleep
> next to my snoring, warm husband.
>
> Sandra
>
irritates you? LOL!
Those books drive me crazy too, and my daughter too.
We yell at the PBS shows' characters as well, telling
them to just TALK to each other honestly.
One of Sarah's favorite "insults" to hurl at someone
is to call them "a Mr. Darcy".
And yet we still watch them. I think it has to be
that we enjoy the verbal sparring that goes on, as
people in our family are quite quick-witted and enjoy
playing on each other's words.
Not in the mean-spirited way it can be done in
Austen's works, though.
=====
--Susan in VA
WifetoVegman
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MamaBeth
Rose <rose@...> wrote:
We did math at the Dr.'s office. (please bare with me as I am not a full
time unschooler yet)
We were on the fifth floor and my son looks down. He asks how high we are.
I tell him 5 stories. He ask me how many feet. I tell him about 10 feet per
floor would make it around 50 feet. THAN he asked how many inches that
would be. I tell him there are 12 inches in a foot, and we are 50 feet up.
What could we do?
I just a moment he said 12 x 50 !!
Now he didn't figure out the answer until we got home and I put it on paper
for him, but HE did figure it out.
I was so proud :D.
We have not learned the multiplication table but he wants to learn to
multiply (since first grade) and totally understands the concept and can do
simple multiplication. Although I have not 'drilled' multiplying.
Ok.. sorry I had to brag about our 'unschool moment' today..
Rose
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Rose <rose@...> wrote:
We did math at the Dr.'s office. (please bare with me as I am not a full
time unschooler yet)
We were on the fifth floor and my son looks down. He asks how high we are.
I tell him 5 stories. He ask me how many feet. I tell him about 10 feet per
floor would make it around 50 feet. THAN he asked how many inches that
would be. I tell him there are 12 inches in a foot, and we are 50 feet up.
What could we do?
I just a moment he said 12 x 50 !!
Now he didn't figure out the answer until we got home and I put it on paper
for him, but HE did figure it out.
I was so proud :D.
We have not learned the multiplication table but he wants to learn to
multiply (since first grade) and totally understands the concept and can do
simple multiplication. Although I have not 'drilled' multiplying.
Ok.. sorry I had to brag about our 'unschool moment' today..
Rose
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In a message dated 1/17/04 7:24:03 AM, wifetovegman2002@... writes:
<< Just curious, Sandra...why do you read it if it
irritates you? LOL! >>
Because I watched all the commentary tracks on Emma Thompson's movie version
of Sense and Sensibility, and I want to read the book so I'll understand some
of the things they talked about.
The sentence structure is a little like (for me) hearing someone clip their
nails. Painful sometimes. So I don't read too much at a stretch. <g> But
being halfway through, I'd like to finish it.
<<And yet we still watch them. I think it has to be
that we enjoy the verbal sparring that goes on, as
people in our family are quite quick-witted and enjoy
playing on each other's words. >>
It's interesting to see how they decided what lines to leave in whole and
which long speeches to cut short. People can do a LOT with posture and a look
and a tone of voice (and now having seen some of the scenes in the book and then
acted, my respect for Alan Rickman has increased tenfold--he nailed that
character) so they don't need all that convoluted verbiage.
I was watching it in Spanish, and the voice actress who did "Mrs. Dashwood"
their sister in law is a hoot in Spanish. REALLY mean but funnier than the
English vocals.
Sandra
<< Just curious, Sandra...why do you read it if it
irritates you? LOL! >>
Because I watched all the commentary tracks on Emma Thompson's movie version
of Sense and Sensibility, and I want to read the book so I'll understand some
of the things they talked about.
The sentence structure is a little like (for me) hearing someone clip their
nails. Painful sometimes. So I don't read too much at a stretch. <g> But
being halfway through, I'd like to finish it.
<<And yet we still watch them. I think it has to be
that we enjoy the verbal sparring that goes on, as
people in our family are quite quick-witted and enjoy
playing on each other's words. >>
It's interesting to see how they decided what lines to leave in whole and
which long speeches to cut short. People can do a LOT with posture and a look
and a tone of voice (and now having seen some of the scenes in the book and then
acted, my respect for Alan Rickman has increased tenfold--he nailed that
character) so they don't need all that convoluted verbiage.
I was watching it in Spanish, and the voice actress who did "Mrs. Dashwood"
their sister in law is a hoot in Spanish. REALLY mean but funnier than the
English vocals.
Sandra
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In a message dated 1/17/04 7:48:16 AM, danielle.conger@... writes:
<< So...
Which one and why irritating? Couldn't resist asking.
<< So...
Which one and why irritating? Couldn't resist asking.
>>Sense and Sensibility, and irritating because the writing is freakish.