I think that one of the great things about unschooling is that there is no activity or learning considered to be more valuable than something else. In school, literacy and numeracy take priority with every other subject touched on lightly. There is no value given inter and intra personal learning, and the curriculum lists those two […]
Category: Unschooling
Daniel’s talking! Hanging at home.
So, Daniel is saying some more words. The really important ones – mine, no, up, more. He’s been really effective at communicating otherwise. I’m expecting his language to really explode as he turns 2. It’ll hopefully help the kids play together more successfully! They do have some really good moments, but of course Alex isn’t patient enough to […]
Swimming, Junior Rangers and 100 hours of karate!
Surprisingly, the 12 millipedes are still going strong! Alex doesn’t check them everyday anymore, but they get an occasional spray of water and some food. There are even seedlings growing inside the tank! Should probably check them out again… Speaking of minibeasts, we took park in a Junior Rangers activity over the school holidays at […]
Maths talk
As we are deschooling, and not using curriculum or workbooks we are allowing for our children’s world to fill naturally with mathematical concepts. Alex has liked counting since he was small, and can confidently count to 100.He can recognise and create many numbers up to 100, having difficulty only with the teens. Having played some […]
The Avengers, trains, and a lunar eclipse
Alex has been filling lots of his home time with watching Youtube on his iPad. He rarely uses it for playing games, though there are plenty there. He watches The Avengers, probably his new favourite show. His favourite is Iron Man.We’ve also watched a couple of the movies. He wants me to build him an […]
The millipedes live on and mindfulness
So, Alex has successfully kept the garden millipedes that are now container bound alive for a whole week! Well, one kind of got broken my chubby fingers… Anyway, we have found out why they need to be in a damp environment from books from the library, have discovered details about their anatomy, and successfully fed […]
Counting and books
Alex has been counting to 100 lots lately, especially carriages or engines on the model trains he watches on Youtube. Today we went to a freight train yard, he was ecstatic. Alex is also close to earning his 100 badge for karate. He’s been asking “how many more” for a few weeks now. I think […]
Pocket money, food, TV
These three things (consumerism rather than pocket money exactly) are the ones we struggle with as unschoolers because they are the things we have had to release control over as we moved from our previous existence as natural, gentle parents. I’ll explain where we are at with each now. Pocket Money – When Alex turned […]
Back to journaling
With all of my recent thoughts on deschooling, I backed off of the connection making for a while. With the advice of Pam Larrichia after I posted a comment on her blog, I’m just going to play. this comes pretty easy to me as my kids don’t like to play by themselves! needless to say […]
Card games
The other day I decided to show Alex a deck of cards and asked if he’s like to play a game. He was actually a little resistant (surprisingly to me), but I pushed a little as I was pretty sure it would be something he’s like to do with me. And it would be something […]