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Leonie
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I was looking through some of my unschooling links and found this description of an unschooling day, that was psoted awhile ago on the net. Thought I'd share.
Ginny's Unschooling Day
Leonie in Sydney
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Quote from the article you linked to, Leonie...
"While she was doing this, teen DS was on the computer at the website NFL.com (what else would he be interested in?) comparing game scores. He told me so-and-so only ran 20% of the yards he ran last year; now why does he hate percentages out of a math book, but he has no trouble with it in real life? (Unschoolers know why)."
 Had to laugh because this is precisely what happened with my teenage son last year.... I could have exactly written the above quote. He knows percentages back and forth now and LIKES them!
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Leonie thanks for the link. This was great! I'm not an unschooler by the common term, but I think this is how many hs families can relate that all day learning can take place for us in ANY environment and setting. Thanks for sharing and I'm going to keep lurking on this topic 
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Today was our first day back into our lessons. I had big plans....We were going to start our day with 8:30 mass. My ds, Christopher (5yrs old) woke up with fever, sore throat, and headache. That took care of mass for us for the morning! After giving him some Motrin, we went upstairs and got started. My dd, Candace, was very excited to begin b/c she is learning cursive this year. She actually got her HWT cursive book out yesterday and sat practicing for an hour. Here's one of my questions: with an unschooling approach, do I just let her dive into the cursive book and work it at her pace? She's so into it right now, I hate to parcel it out into daily lessons.
While Candace was writing, Christopher (who was under the Motrin spell and feeling better) wanted to do his math (he started Miquon at the end of last year). He did about a page and had had enough. Candace and I played Yahtzee to review some multiplication while Christopher played with the wood pieces from HWT.
After playing another game with Christopher, we all sat down together and began to make a yarn doll that Candace had been wanting to make from one of her American Girl Doll craft books. That was a good lesson in following directions! By the time we finished, Christopher's headache was coming back. He layed on the couch while Candace made a dress for her yarn doll. While I helped her hand sew it (she actually got frustrated and just asked me to finish it!), she read a chapter aloud to me from one of her Little House books. After that, I put Christopher in my bed. He slept while Candace and I ate lunch. When he woke up,we watched a video on my bed while I tried not to doze! The day ended with a trip to the doctor to find out, no, it's not strep throat just a virus that could last a few days.
I was feeling pretty good about our first day considering what else was going on. However, tonight my dd told her friend, "We hardly did any school today." She later told me she wants "lots" of subjects each day.
I guess for this child, unschooling and taking her lead would be to plan lots of things but be okay with it if they don't all take place the way they are planned? I don't want school at the kitchen table all day and I really don't think she does, either. She loves read aloud time and rarely wants to read to me although she's quite capable. I guess I'm still trying to figure out what is the best approach to take. We had planned to do an ocean unit this past May and never really did it. So, the plan now is to study oceans, read Pagoo and maybe Island of the Blue Dolphins. I've thought about us making a lapbook for it as well. Am I on the right track here? Any suggestions? Thank you!
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Hi Courtney,
I think that your day sounded just gorgeous - I enjoyed reading your account.
My nine year old has a handwriting book, because he wants to learn script. He works on this to his own rhythm - typically, he has spurts of time when he works on handwriting for awhile and then has time away from his handwriting book. For him, this works better than setting lessons - I think he needs the time off the handwriting book as a consolidation stage, perhaps?
Maybe your dd would like to see a list of what she has done each day - do you need to keep such a list or journal for the state? It may be that she will be amazed at all she has done when she sees it in writing - so won't feel she is not doing much or not enough subjects.
Just a thought,
Leonie in Sydney
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Hi, Leonie. That's a good idea. I have ordered the Catholic planner from Pflaum for her. I think this may be a good place to let her see what she's done each day. Thank you!
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