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Hi and welcome! :) Your entire post was fabulous but, just so you know, if you typed this list up, several of us would pay mucho dinero for it. Seriously, name your price.* :D
:iagree: And if you would correlate it to your videos for those of us who are members that would be fantastic too.
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Just a note to check with your local science museums for discovery box programs. Our local nature park has nine boxes available to teachers and homeschoolers -- seven life science based and two history ones. We can leave a security deposit and check them out free for two weeks.
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Oy this is daunting. We need a Discovery Box Netflix. Pay a monthly fee and check out your box for a while.
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Lets keep the ideas coming and then at some point in the near future maybe we can divide up the lists to be compiled and edited and added to a Google Docs or Dropbox account for everyone to download. Open to any ideas here for sharing them.
Also, I think we want to keep the items on the list fairly general (i.e. play Math games as opposed to play Monopoly). Then as we talk about implementation we can give examples of specific ideas. That will make the lists useful to the greatest number of people.
Open to suggestions.
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Woolybear (and everyone) sorry I have been absent. Hubby is away so I am busy. Feel free to start whatever you would like. I did not start one for language arts because the original idea for these lists came from The Bravewriter Lifestyle which is already a language arts list. If you feel you want a different one, feel free!
Of course start one for any subject. Maybe keep them specific instead of doing miscellaneous, though.
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I have started threads for some of the major subject areas. Jump on in and add posts to the threads adding ideas for things to put on the lists. We can also add discussions there about the lists.
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Read living history books.
Visit a historical reenactment or museum.
Attend a history lecture or demonstration.
Add people and events studied from week to timeline (anything we study or discuss in any subject -- music, art, science, literature)
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Cook a recipe.
Read a living math book.
Play a math game.
Play a card or board game.
Play a math app or computer game.
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I posted this on a recent thread about unschooling:
I love the Bravewriter Lifestyle list of activities for Language Arts. What I would really like is a list of activities for every subject area -- a list of things to do on a regular basis that would ensure we were getting a well-rounded education in all of the subjects without using a curriculum. I like to think of it as Learning Lifestyle Lists or unschooling for the type-A personality. :D I have thought a couple of times about asking the relaxed learners here on the WTM boards if they would be interested in helping brainstorm ideas for the lists, but have yet to work up the courage to do it.As an example, I have come up with a draft of a science list:
- Read living science books
- Complete a science notebooking or journal page (transcribed by mom for younger set)
- Nature study
- Conduct an inquiry experiment with a discovery box (borrowed from inquiry science thread found here)
- Discuss and add questions to the science board for further exploration (borrowed from inquiry science thread found here)
- Science field trip (science museum, zoo, animal habitat)
- Watch a science documentary or edutainment show (Magic School Bus, Bill Nye)
- Subscribe to, view, and discuss a science video- or photo-of-the-day
- Subscribe to and discuss science magazines of interest
- Look for and discuss science current events
- Explore a science-themed app or website
Some of these would be done daily, some weekly, and others once a month or two. I would love to have a list like this for all subjects -- kind of checklist of activities that I can refer to make sure we are using a variety of methods to explore each subject.
There were others who liked the idea and wanted to work together to make lists for every subject. I have created a social group called Learning Lifestyle Lists for anyone who is interested in helping compile the lists or discussing how we can use them in our homeschools. Any interested party is welcome to join us! :001_smile:
- Read living science books
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This is the original draft:
Read living science books
Complete a science notebooking or journal page (transcribed by mom for younger set)
Nature study
Conduct an inquiry experiment with a discovery box (borrowed from inquiry science thread found here)
Discuss and add questions to the science board for further exploration (borrowed from inquiry science thread found here)
Science field trip (science museum, zoo, animal habitat)
Watch a science documentary or edutainment show (Magic School Bus, Bill Nye)
Subscribe to, view, and discuss a science video- or photo-of-the-day
Subscribe to and discuss science magazines of interest
Look for and discuss science current events
Explore a science-themed app or website
Feel free to add more ideas.
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I'm very interested in the discovery box suggestion. I have the book coming. Wouldn't mind watching the videos and discussing as a group either.
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I prefer having it handy on my iPad and just mark it up with Notability.
I have a hard copy (bought it used) and I really wish I had this instead. That binder is big and bulky and not good for curling up and reading -- notes or no notes.
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Originally Posted by honeymommy4
The list is helpful for sure. I do like the unschooling concept, just not sure what to have them do on a day to day. Maybe it works better for more motivated kids. Mine don't really ever start projects on their own and rarely want to do what I suggest. So having structured "school time" was best I THOUGHT, but that went way south for us, didn't work and we are back to trying to figure out what to do.
As an unschooler, you don't "have them do" anything.
All children want to learn things; they just don't always want to learn what parents think they should learn, when parents think they should learn it. Sometimes this causes parents to think that the children are not motivated, but that isn't true.
Why should your children want to start projects? :confused: What kinds of "projects" do you think they should do? Don't mistake their lack of desire for "projects" for a lack of motivation.
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I don't know what to do from here. i went to school. on the weekends I woudl spend entire days just making things with the sewing machine or doing crafts on my own. My kids aren't really into that or old enough for that yet, I guess. I've tried setting up art tables, etc. for them but it just gets used mainly by the toddler. :confused:
For example, DS just wants to play all day. he's 8, of course. Just wants to "play legos". that's great, but really he is just building and re-building the same Star wars lego creations and playing with them. I can't exactly sit with him and build legos all day.
Why would you need to sit with him while he builds Lego creations? What's wrong with building and re-building the same creations?
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He does like to read - the easy reader Star Wars books from the library. I'm getting some Magic School house chapter books soon. what else can I give him?
Go to the library. Let him check out whatever he wants.
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I've got 3 other kids, it woudl be ideal to involve the 2 others in something - but all I get when I say we are going to do "X" is resistance.
Let them play together...or not.
Field trips and library visits involve everyone (and you don't ask them if they want to; you plan it and get them all in the car and go). Household chores involve everyone (you certainly don't ask them if they want to do chores, lol).
Unschooling is not unparenting (although some people do it that way. They are in error. JMHO.). But if it doesn't have to do with discipline (because children are not born knowing how to behave properly), household maintanance, social responsibilities, and so on, then let them do things on their own.
:iagree: And radical unschoolers would tell you not to make them do the chores or go on the field trips either. They would also tell you that it is very important to sit and build things with the legos -- but not try to tell him what to build.
IMHO a move to unschooling entails more of a philosophical switch rather than a tactical switch. You seem to be looking for a tactical switch here.Also great advice.
I have not evolved to the point yet where I feel I can totally "trust the child," which is so important to the unschooling philosophy. I keep thinking that one day they may blame me for not preparing them properly for the world. :D Therefore we are eclectic, but I am making progress on the continuum. And I really believe unschooling is a journey, not a destination. We all have our public school baggage. Some on the journey just get there faster than others.
Have you considered gathering them all in the same room and letting them play quietly while you read to them? Then you can discuss what you read if they are willing. He can certainly build while he listens to say, SOTW. You can muse aloud about the things you find interesting -- don't orally quiz, but model and invite conversation. One of the things I struggle with is that there has to be some sort of output from my children. There doesn't. Partnered conversation (as opposed to teacher/student conversation) can be enough.
On the other hand, he may be a kid that wants to do a workbook for every subject, get it over quickly, and have the rest of the day to play. If school is not a choice in your home, he has to buckle down and do it. You can help him find the most painless way, but it is not optional.
In unschooling it is important to strew, invite, and provide opportunities without getting mad if they refuse. I really think in many ways unschooling is more challenging for the mom than many other methods.
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I don't know of one and we aren't technically unschoolers because we do sit down and do the 3Rs everyday. BUT I have been mulling over an idea that might be along the lines you want.
I love the Bravewriter Lifestyle list of activities for Language Arts. What I would really like is a list of activities for every subject area -- a list of things to do on a regular basis that would ensure we were getting a well-rounded education in all of the subjects without using a curriculum. I like to think of it as Learning Lifestyle Lists or unschooling for the type-A personality. :D I have thought a couple of times about asking the relaxed learners here on the WTM boards if they would be interested in helping brainstorm ideas for the lists, but have yet to work up the courage to do it.
As an example, I have come up with a draft of a science list:
- Read living science books
- Complete a science notebooking or journal page (transcribed by mom for younger set)
- Nature study
- Conduct an inquiry experiment with a discovery box (borrowed from inquiry science thread found here)
- Discuss and add questions to the science board for further exploration (borrowed from inquiry science thread found here)
- Science field trip (science museum, zoo, animal habitat)
- Watch a science documentary or edutainment show (Magic School Bus, Bill Nye)
- Subscribe to, view, and discuss a science video- or photo-of-the-day
- Subscribe to and discuss science magazines of interest
- Look for and discuss science current events
- Explore a science-themed app or website
Some of these would be done daily, some weekly, and others once a month or two. I would love to have a list like this for all subjects -- kind of checklist of activities that I can refer to make sure we are using a variety of methods to explore each subject.
I don't know if that is what you were looking for or not, but thanks for reading. :)
- Read living science books
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We need a technology column -- how to integrate it with homeschool. I volunteer to help with that one. I also have a graphic design background but more in a workhorse capacity instead of the stellar designer capacity. :D
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THANK YOU for reminding me to thaw the ham bone and soak my peas!! We have it without the greens, but over rice. Will serve cabbage on the side. Cornbread and sweet tea complete the meal. Mmmmmm...
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My 4yo will be 5 in March and has lost two in the past month! The others are coming in behind, so it seems normal to me. All of my kids were on the younger side in getting theirs -- starting about four months. DD didn't lose her first one until 5 though.
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It is a change in Facebook. Mine automatically fed into my notes too. A few weeks ago they gave me a notice that it would stop by a certain date. No explanation as to why, but they did recommend I could copy and paste the link on to my wall manually as a substitute. :glare: So that is what I have been doing.
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:bigear: subbing
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Thank you for the ideas. We have all been so sick here since the 23rd and it is dampening our celebration. I hope to feel better over the next couple of days and can use these ideas to get us moving in the right direction.
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Can you help me with ideas? I did manage to not put the tree up until Gaudette Sunday this year so I think it will stay. I saved gingerbread day until after Christmas. We still have quite a few Christmas books we haven't read yet this year.
With us observing Advent it seem like we have been in high liturgical mode for a month now. Even though I know Advent is about preparing and not celebrating, there was the Jesse Tree every day and we love the Advent feasts so we do something for quite a bit for them. I am still feeling a bit celebrated out and am looking for some simple ideas.
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Bumping because this is so cool
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We do MOTL and Living Math (and now adding Miquon) at our house. For Language Arts we do the BraveWriter Lifestyle and The Writer's Jungle. (If you get interested in WJ and think about buying, check Homeschool Buyers Co-op for a big discount.) She also has helps for copywork and dictation called The Arrow.
Also, check out things written by Ruth Beechick. The LLATL curriculum is based on her approach.
I am looking for a similar approach for history and science if anyone has ideas. :D
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in Learning Lifestyle Lists
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Am going to try and get on here in the next day or two and compile what we have into single lists easy to copy and paste.