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Leonie
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I shared this on Facebook and on my blog but thought I'd also share here..
From the unschooling life blog ~ My FIve Best Homeschooling Tips.
Don’t make cookies to teach math. Make cookies because they taste good.
I love this quote. It paints a picture of how I feel I should live, as an unschooler. Interested in life, yes. Learning and teaching naturally, yes. But avoiding those overly contrived situations. Avoiding making everything a teachable moment.
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Thank you for that! What a splendid quote!
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Leonie wrote:
Don’t make cookies to teach math. Make cookies because they taste good.
I love this quote. It paints a picture of how I feel I should live, as an unschooler. Interested in life, yes. Learning and teaching naturally, yes. But avoiding those overly contrived situations. Avoiding making everything a teachable moment.
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Oh, I love this Leonie! I think that's why I like to do our own "units" rather than FIAR or something as those seem contrived or just too trying to force it ...
I think the bottom line is we show the kids the importance of knowing something (measuring or size) by doing rather than giving them a worksheet!
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That IS a great quote. Very wise words.
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I love this quote and you response to it! Exactly how I felt last year doing Saxon Math with my 1st grader, and the lesson manual telling me we had to eat apples and bake a pan of brownies to complete this or that lesson 
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WONDERFUL!! 
I just love your blog! I am on my way out the door but I was curious if you know why the google reader will not let me add your blog to my list? I want to remember to come back to that one!! So much GOOD STUFF! 
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Ok, I just realized in trying to figure out the google reader thing that the blog you took that 5 best tips from isn't yours.  (at least I think?)
Anyway, thanks for posting!!
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Leonie
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It is a great blog on unschooling, isn't it?
Here is her take on the book Guerilla Learning. And how it inspired me.
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Thanks Leonie! I dropped into 4Real for a few minutes, and after reading your thread I now come away refreshed!
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I love that quote. It's true for me ! I certainly struggled with formal math vs. let's bake and call it math. Of course I'm being snarky here, if that's a word, but I struggled with lets ask the kids their interests, make a list and pursue that as our learning for the year too. Sometimes it was a great success but other times it was just like that cookie math, chaos. 
P.S. Editing to add, that at least our attempts at cooking and math mostly tasted good.
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