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Children are able to absorb information the entire time they play. Mine play all day long.

This first came to me with a two year old and his dinosaur toys. I knew homeschooling would make sense for us as soon as I got the idea, but we jumped into a much bigger world of education the first time I said, ‘well I don’t know, wanna go research on daddy’s computer with me?’

Through playing, youtube watching, playing, youtube watching, playing, and research, each new dinosaur ‘toy’ we got was quite a massive educational building block and puzzle piece.

Which toys are your tools?

Dam Fun. Dad & Son.
April 10, 2018

Our second T-shirt day of the season – our first was a month or so ago. (Let’s get with Spring, ammiright?) The great part this time was the high winds. Strangely enough, he seemed to benefit from the wind BOTH […]

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A Broken Keyboard
April 6, 2018

We had to replace the keyboard. What to do with the old one? Take it apart!

Lots of screws to unscrew, and lots mysteries to unravel.

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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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A Week of Unschool : Episode 2
January 28, 2018

We had another fun week. It was winter jackets and snow at the beginning and no coat scootering at the end of it. We went to the library and were excited to see they added two ipads to the computer section. The three year old went with me to get the cars and trains for the car and train table and wanted to return them before setting them up after I said ‘huh, oh look, they have ipads like at gramma’s library!’

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Introducing Children to the Dark Side
January 15, 2018

Back in my day it was star wars OR lego. or star wars WITH lego!

she hasn’t seen the movies. he’s seen the ‘making of’ 🙂

dad: make sure you put those pieces together very carefully. don’t use FORCE

5yo: good one, dad

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It’s all about Roblox at the moment
January 10, 2018

So what do you do if your kid discovers computer games and watches computer game videos on youtube?

You fit as much education into that as possible!

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Dad, Come See My Swidda!! Introduction to Computers
December 17, 2017

I’m so glad we found the game called Slither.io, a browser-based game that has helped our three year old start to figure out how to control a computer. I wasn’t trying to find a way to ‘teach her computers’ yet; that’s just what happened. She saw her brother doing it…and well…that’s all she needed.

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Making Changes For Fun: Skyscraper Destruction
December 3, 2017

It turns out the kids LOVE Lego skyscrapers. They play together, (or alone) for hours. They follow common sense Lego rules like if one kid builds and ‘claims’ something, the other kid can play with but not modify or break it. Or not to worry about things falling apart on their watch if they were trying to rebuild something, but to not break something ‘just because’

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Fun Ways To Educate? Use the Force. Always.
November 5, 2017

We knew she was ‘officially pregnant’ when she cried her eyes out seeing little Anakin leaving his mom in the desert…again…seriously, we had seen this several times already…)

Star Wars has always been a big part of my life (well, only if you include making a Star Wars reference whenever possible and owning and wearing too often an adult sized Star Wars costume) but the kids hadn’t really shown too much interest…no more than any of the other things they are in to – from every comic book hero to anything that’s in a ‘Flying Bag’ (blind bag)…or anything that they have seen on youtube.

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