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break out your deer hair stacker
alternate title: it’ll fish i have not written much about my current gainful employment as after school program site coordinator, and, since i resolved in 2014 to complain less, it may continue to be...
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~a month of unschool~
easing back into our routine after a nice holiday break! the holidays were sweet. lots of moments like the above photo, with big pancake showing little b pancake all about bilbo’s house. also, we had a...
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~a month of unschool~
we spent a gloriously sunny january day riding a pony, driving plasma cars, tossing a football, and casting fishing poles with family-friends. quinn traced the map from the series we are reading: the...
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spring break in the age of reason
i mentioned a birthday post, but i never actually began typing that, and now a month has already gone by. march came in like a vortex, in the form of the hunger games series, and i was not spit out...
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~a month of unschool~
i have been forgetting to write much about quinn’s spanish lessons at ols, mostly because for the first part of the year, he kept opting out of them. i know he has always been fascinated with language,...
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~a month of unschool~
the beginning of the month was spring break, featuring unschooling in its rawest form (you know, without going to school), which i wrote about in spring break in the age of reason. pictured here are...
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practically impractical
i’ve known since february that i would be concluding my position as site coordinator of the after school program in june, but have been quiet, not wanting to give the impression i would be phoning it...
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~a month of unschool~
one of quinn’s favorite learning activities right now is the paleontology card game he got for christmas. “mama, what does e-x-p-e-d-i-t-i-o-n-s spell?” we have been having fun earning “prestige...
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oklahoma was ok ~ a rambling update
it’s the autumnal equinox, a sunny, breezy sunday, and i am lazily canning my way past the 200 pound mark in tomatoes for this season. rich walks in as i sit with the laptop in my lap (that’s how...
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~rainbow monday~
red: a late season hummingbird came out to play in the sunny sunday fuschia. orange: the one lone zinnia that is finally blooming (watercolor filtered in photoshop) yellow: one family picnic over from...
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~a month of unschool~
the school year comes to an end, but the unschooling never does. this month of unschooling involved lots of art and outside time! here are some of quinn’s finished art pieces, including his self...
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~rainbow mondays~
well, it’s really tuesday, but i am going ahead and observing rainbow monday today. pink: ignoring for a moment that the date stamp on this image says february 8, and all that implies about the world...
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like a wagon wheel
on new year’s day, coyote visited rich in the form of a near miss with his new truck. the next day, i drew a card about this new year, and sure enough, there was coyote, the piece entitled makes you...
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salmon science
~ salmon science unit ~ provided a home for some salmon eggs in a tank on science counter ~ ate snack made with graham crackers, peanut butter, chocolate rocks and blueberries, that looked...
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a year in the life of a lifelong learner
i have been delinquent on posting ~a month of unschool~ for so many months now, that it is time for an update on a whole year! i gave up on the idea of back-dating the posts and decided to do one giant...
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a month in the life of a lifelong learner
we had an auspicious start to the month of learning with a wonderful family camping trip. quinn was keen on (read: fixated on) pokemon monopoly over the weekend, so he rallied the kids and taught a...
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