March 15, 2010 # 10:31 pm # Parenting, Unschooling # No Comment
Each week we pick a theme that we reinforce with the art projects, “field trips”, cooking and play we do with the girls. This week is transportation. I asked the girls to go through their toy boxes and bring me toys that help us get where we we want to go.
My favorite of [...]
July 18, 2009 # 7:05 am # Creative Projects, Unschooling # 3 Comments
When we first got home, from Siberia, with the girls most of our focus was on trying to communicate, figuring out basic parenting and life skills, and getting calories -lots and lots and lots- of calories into the Wee Kahunas.
Once we got past the shock and awwwwww ( as in oh my goodness they [...]
July 12, 2009 # 10:37 pm # Unschooling # No Comment
Ok, so we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here….but at this point we are planning on a combination of montessouri pre-school and homeschool for the girls, at least for the first couple of years if possible.
There are lots of ways to do this, but regardless of the “school of thought” [...]