Cute! Something that I swear most of us unschoolers need. How is it that if it doesn’t sound school-ish then it can not possibly teach a child? Just because you don’t use (or even if you do) all the fancy $5 words to describe what is going on while “blowing bubbles in the garden”, children still have fun and make connections to apply to future experiences. Like for example, next time they see an oily spot on the ground in a parking lot, they might remember the same shimmery effect on the surface of their bubbles. It’s all connected and in their own time they’ll fill in and apply the $5 words to what they always enjoyed as a kid.
This is extracted from: the parenting pit – alternative parenting + unschooling
ACADEMIC TRANSLATOR
For those that unschool and yet have to report to some government agency… or the kids grandparents, why not buy our academic translator? simply say the activity that you have been pursuing (eg. blowing bubbles in the garden) and allow the translator to do its magic, in this case the results were: “todays lesson plan consisted of Chemistry, particularly working with the results of the saponification process from sodium and potassium fatty acid salts; Physics, examing surfactants and the Marangoni effect on liquid surface tension. A side experiment of light wave interference patterns from solar sources through viscous air borne fluids was also pursued.”
