Two recent projects: Nesting materials for the birds, and facts about Vikings
Two of our recent homeschooling projects included making a “feeder” of nesting materials for our birds, and making a poster about Vikings.
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Family day: Inside fun with Monopoly; outside fun with a ‘backyard’ hike
A multi-hour monopoly game and a hike around a former golf course turned park near our home made for a perfect spring day.
Happy 12th birthday, Sarah! A look at last week, and a look ahead
March 24, 2012, was our daughter Ashar’s 12th birthday. We celebrated with cookie cake and visit to a local lake!
Blogging about geography and old books with dad (and a very temporary mohawk)
A 1920 geography textbook led to an amazing project for Ashar and Chris, involving analysis from Native Americans to the Amish.
Our scrapbook: Cookie-making with Dad
Chris and Ashar made chocolate-chip-mint cookies for a 4-H meeting and talked about baking and volcanoes.
Rest in peace, triops; long live the winter white hamster
In her quest to bring a winter white hamster home from the pet store, Ashar made a list of all the supplies she’d need and (gasp) did some math.
Our Leap Day leap into homeschooling
Welcome to Unschool Rules, the Conciliottoman family’s radical unschooling blog. We made the leap-day leap into homeschooling Feb. 29, 2012, and love it.