Tuesday, December 16, 2008

A Day in the Life of a Classical Unschooler

***New pics in photo album, also*********



It's been a while!! We've taken...like 2 weeks off?? Maybe longer..LOL...;) Even during this time, it hasn't stopped the kids from reading/wanting to play their math games:) Just got to keep up with the blog!!!

Here's what we've done...I have a rather long list..




We put up a Christmas tree...the cat thought it was real!

(i guess)

You can get a better view of our 'Cookie' from here;)

We didn't bother with the ornaments...she has already knocked nearly every candy cane off


Rachel read this to me today. It's from the Elson Reader, which you will see a little further down the pic's.. I'm looking into buying grade 3, this is grade 2 from the library and she seems to enjoy it. We've been on the waiting list for grade 3 for a while..so I think I'm going to just buy it. Prior to writing 'Dick and Jane', William Elson wrote these books.



Our history story






Star Spangled Banner


The kids love doing math with this game! We role two dice and then role a third. If it's even, you add the dice together. If it's not, then you subtract. They really enjoy it!:)

We will need to get back into written math, though. I think that is important too.


I read the book below to them today. It was pretty cute!



This is a portion of science we read last week.





We did this one today. The kids enjoyed learning about 'endangered animals'..added another vocabulary word to their list;)









These may be repeats..I'm not sure!! But these are some stories Gracie has read to me. She does them really well, and hardly ever needs to ask questions.







I guess I entered this backward again..here is the book it came from:)


















Here is the book the first story came from. I am on the waiting list for grade 3, but am growing impatient... I think what I'll do is have her start reading from the end of the book, if she does well, I'll buy the grade 3 one. It's an older book, so there are new words in it, and it isn't as dumbed down as books are nowadays, which is why I'm letting her wait.


These are stories we did last week



She liked this one below. She found out she had been singing it differently..I think it had a new verse, as well.



Cute book for adults...I think the humor went right over their heads!



Rachel read this to our kitten.



I read this to them today.


Rachel also read this to the kitten.


I read this to them last week.



Rachel couldn't sleep one night, woke up in the middle of the night. Went into my room, turned on the light and read this...yes, I am a heavy sleeper. She went back to sleep when she was done...I didn't know she was there.


Rachel read this to Gracie the other day.


I read these to them last week







I also have a series of videos. This first one: Gracie decided to help out with the dishes. Colette joined her, splashed around but really felt she was contributing.
On the right, Colette enjoys crawling across house with Rachel, making a new animal sound each time. Here they are playing 'alligator'. They move more in a line...but because of the video they are more moving in a circle here...can't take the video if they're crawling across the house;)
(it's a little dark)


The one below is of our beloved cat climbing our Christmas tree!!
****I wasn't aware when I took video I couldn't put the camera sideways***
OOps!;)







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