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    We've been unschooling since before they could talk! When education is this fun, why wait? Why even separate it?

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Don’t worry about getting outside

You’ll get outside whenever; you’re unschoolers! Not sure what to learn about while just hanging around home?

Once again, everything is education

Math through socket wrenches. Science in the kitchen. Art colours & design all over. How are couches made? TV stands? How do lamps work? Surge protectors? What’s a computer doing? How is it playing on the TV?

And on, and on, and on…

Meeting a Sloth & Mommy Touching a Snake
March 18, 2018

We had a great time at the Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo Meet a Sloth event! The biggest downside was it was on March break and there was an ocean of school kids there. Man, they make for a crowded event 🙂

It doesn’t take long after getting in to see how much the staff loves doing what they are doing and are so good with the kids; whether it’s answering their questions ‘at their level’ or artfully avoiding questions in order to maintain the flow of the presentations.

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Mortal Kombat, Green Screen, Scootering, & Swimming : A Week of Unschool : Episode 4
March 12, 2018

How fun is unschooling? How beneficial is screen time? How comical is ‘video game violence = violent kids’?

Another great week of education and excitement!

The five year old beat Mortal Kombat Armageddon on the Wii. Leading up to this, and since this happened, there have been several dad-son ‘real life’ battles. They mostly end with me getting to his tickle spot (ribcage) but one, in particular, ended much differently. An accidental headbutt and a bloody lip on dad. He officially Finished me! His little sister is also getting on board. She threw a frisbee at me outside. She said it wasn’t a frisbee, but Kung Lao’s hat! (I haven’t caught on video the super cute way she mimics Scorpion’s ‘GET OVER HERE!’)

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A Day of Pool Firsts
February 15, 2018

Swimming lessons?? Unschoolers call it ‘swimming’.

Before heading over to gramma’s for another swim (and snack from gramma’s snack drawer) I reminded the new goggler how little time he spent under the water on his trips under the surface. I figured it was because he was fighting buoyancy and had not learned how to keep himself down.

I then realized he probably had no idea how long he could hold his breath for…

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Five Year Old’s Unicycle Progress Report : Leany. Having Fun.
February 12, 2018

  When cardio is leaning on a wall for a few minutes

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A Week of Unschool : Episode 3
February 6, 2018

Another great week of learning! He learned how to more properly navigate a giant ice pile that used to be a snow pile. They even got to climb up and slide down it when it was a snow pile again.

We were on the DIY kick after our homemade playdoh, so we made up some homemade puffy paint. Just self-rising flour, salt, water, and food colour, but oh no, we didn’t have any self-rising flour. We had to find out if we could make some from our existing ingredients. You bet your baking powder we could!

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Treading Water
February 5, 2018

Down to one kid in waterwings! Many hours have been spent in gramma’s pool between now and the time he was wearing swimming diapers. Swims with gramma, or grampa, or mom or dad, or his aunt, uncle, and cousins, or any combination thereof.

Just recently he mastered ‘goggles and nose holding’ for new underwater adventures and was excited to show me. (I got him to dip down sans-nose holding a few times, but it didn’t last long)

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