Sunday, February 15, 2009

A Day in our Always Learning Life - I'm Back!!!!

I wanted to record our day today, because I realized the "educational" aspect of some of the parts of our day, and it reminded me that since we came home from the Kalahari Unschoolers Winter Waterpark Gathering, I've been wanting to record our learning.
Today, we have had Health, Science, and Psychology, Home Ec, Math, Physical Education, Computer, and Art. Just off the top of my head.
In Health, we discussed food, and its purposes, and effects on the body. Aaron instigated Science when he wanted to play with the lighter. I showed him how to use it, and he used it to light the candle. Jaidyn, Jesse, and Nathan were standing around with us, and we experimented with putting the lid on the candle jar to see what would happen. We did this a few times illustrating that fire needs oxygen to burn. We watched the flame "eat up" the oxygen, and then go out. Psychology goes on all day every day at our house. With 8 personalities under one roof there is plentiful opportunity to discuss human interaction, emotions, underlying causes, attitudes, etc., etc... We baked cookies (and ate cookie dough) for
Home Ec, which also included some Math (fractions). The kids had Phys Ed chasing each other, and running around outside (all the while using their imaginations). The Art was intertwined with the Phys Ed, because before they went outside, we made "wearable coffins" (just like on Sponge Bob) out of two old pizza boxes, some measuring tape, a brad tack, scotch tape and a rubber band. Good cheap fun! Jesse burnt trash in the backyard, that's gotta count for something, right?! For Computer, we researched Mega Bus tickets for Travis' America's Got Talent Audition in March, watched YouTube videos, played around on Facebook, and checked our emails. Jesse has his own Facebook page now.
Next we'll be doing Cooking class, making some Mini Chinese Egg Rolls. Maybe even reading some Chinese New Year books, and that'd count for Social Studies...
Amazing how much learning you can pack into one day at home, and that's only a fraction of the learning. Just what I could come up with in 15 minutes or so.
God, am I glad to be back in the land of the living. Depression sucks the life out of you.

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