Horseshoe crabs, sad alpaca news and clothes shopping: Snippets from unschooling this week
Our October 2012 snippets from unschooling included Webkinz, a great friend’s wedding, finding brand-name clothes cheap and more.
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Art is personal: Painting with drumsticks, and winning (or not winning) awards
Our family’s trip to a local art festival, where Ashar entered some of her work, showed us how personal art can be – and introduced us to a “drum painter!”
Our school pictures – now with 50% more livestock
Seventh-grade school pictures with alpacas. That about sums up our informal homeschooling and unschooling approach!
Our scrapbook: Photos from Lego Junior Robotics Camp
Ashar has LOVED the Lego Bricks 4 Kidz junior robotics camps. Here’s a photo scrapbook of her with some of her new friends.
Butterfly adventures: Our trip to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, plus tales from our own garden
Our trip to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History included several trips through the live Butterfly Experience. What a great homeschooling adventure!
The ultimate guide to homeschooling for working moms
You CAN homeschool as a working mom. Here’s the ultimate guide to how we’ve made our house, our homeschool, our work and our personal lives fit together.
10 things you should probably know about each of the Ottos
Meet the Conciliottoman family, unschoolers in central Pennsylvania. Here are 10 fun facts about each of us, including some added bonus facts about our cats.
Our scrapbook: Visiting the National Museum of the American Indian
If you’re going to Washington, D.C., one not-to-miss place is the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. A great homeschool trip!
Advice for starting homeschooling: 10 things that helped us
The best advice for starting homeschooling? TRUST. Here are some other good pieces of wisdom that were passed our way.
A look back at our week, good times and bad
Here’s a look at our homeschooling life during the week of July 7, 2012, which featured our completed portfolio review for the previous school year and a great educational quote from E.L. Konigsburg.