Unschlog = Unschooling + (web)blog: things specific to OUR unschooling (not yours or there’s ); a log of unschooling.
I had originally wanted to write little bits and bots about our unschooling journey and what E is up to, but it’s really so hard for me to separate things out into little neat boxes for readers…unless I try super hard and over analyze everything thing we do. We are living and learning…learning is everything we do. Our educational philosophy, parenting philosophy and life are not one without the other. I am finally at a point where I don’t see in ‘subjects’, but rather really neat and often profound connections that E makes between thing ‘A’ and thing ‘B’.
With that said, I’ll do my best to give a recap of the last week. This is just more of a list of things…I have expounded on some and left some comments here and there…it might make no real sense to many of you, but that’s why this here Unschlog is OURS and not YOURS!
5th:
Noggin TV
Walk to & from picking up CSA (it was hot & E wasn’t too happy; I felt sad for him)
Pick up CSA share
Online computer games w/Mum (these vary & he insists on not playing the same one more than once!)
Asked to make hand-puppets at 11pm, which needed pipe cleaners and none could be found — we still haven’t found/bought pipe cleaners ;(
6th:
Noggin TV
Kapla blocks
Wooden blocks
Lincoln logs
5# dumbbell — he really likes this thing & actually uses it!
Online computer games w/ Mum
7th:
Noggin TV
Online computer games w/ Mum
Lincoln logs
Wooden blocks
Outside w/Mum – played with a ball & checked on the garden
Outside on screened porch (alone) – trucks & such
Figured out that it’s so much fun to open his Sigg bottle & make water messes!
8th:
Noggin TV
Took apart 2 dozen pens
Lacing beads
Online computer games w/ Mum
Made lots of food & water messes!
9th:
Noggin TV
Zingo w/Mum & he made up a memory-type game with the tiles too
New dinosaur puzzle
Summer box of goodies from Great Grandma J
One of his dismantled pens exploded & he was covered from head to toe in blue ink!
Long bath — his skin is still stained a bit though!
10th:
Noggin TV
Walk to & from Community Garden
Community Garden — weeded, watered (and played with water!) & dead-headed the spring onions.
Visited w/ Matt, Tracey, Annan & Dugan while at the garden
Online computer games w/ Mum
Kapla blocks
Watched me mix up & apply henna to my hand
11th:
Noggin TV
Sprout TV
Online computer games w/ Mum
Cardboard box car & related shenanigans
Very lazy day w/ lots of ‘just hanging out’!
12th: so far today
Sprout TV
Noggin TV
Walk to & from picking up CSA
Picked up CSA share & ate some of the strawberries on the way home
Online computer games w/ Mum
Made random made-up ‘organs’ w/ some Fidgets (neat little blocks stung together by elastic through the middle)
So, that’s it…man, maybe I should have picked a ‘better’ week to post with! Ha! Tomorrow we are going to be purchasing a Leapfrog Leapster for Elijah…he doesn’t know it yet! Hopefully it will be something new to engage him during our car rides during this vacation…and it might spawn a life-long obsession with ‘video games’…and that’s okay with me. So long as he enjoys himself and the others than are around him.
