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Perhaps you've stumbled here looking for information on unschooling. I wish I could help you. My two children, husband and I are just starting this journey ourselves. This blog is meant to be a record of what my children are learning and how but good reading it is not. (unless you suffer from insomnia in which case, "Read on!" And if you do read on please know that I am aware that Details of the Day is full of errors - typos and sentence fragments. I do not generally go back and correct my mistakes because I think it is much more important to spend time with my children as they are learning instead of keeping perfect records of that learning. Still it is comforting to look back over time and remember what we have accomplished, for sometimes those milestones are overlooked in the everydayness of life. So I try to post without getting hung up on "perfect." If you'd like to read a more interesting and real view of our lives please visit our regular blogs.... See them in the sidebar? They are much better... I promise....and there are pictures! :)

• make pieces for and play the Three Little Pigs game from Disney's Goo For You book
• Discuss the me-my-mo word play song - How does it work? How does changing one letter change an entire word. Sister, Sister, Bo Bister, Banana Fana Fo Fister, Me My Mo Mister, Sister.
• Sister decides to make clay. I read the directions and she measures and mixes. She and Brother spend over an hour playing with the creation.
• Raking, raking, and more raking. The children love Fall.
• Watch Curious George
• Nap
• Watch the Jeff Corwin Experience
• Karate
• more stuff I don't remember.
  

Watch Peep's big world

We read the remaining Library books from last week.

Sister dictates a summary of Castaway Cats (see ThisSimpleLife.net)

Sister creates a treasure map for Brother then takes him on a hunt that plays out
more like a melodramatic opera than your typical treasure hunt.

Yo, Gabba, Gabba

Library visit after lunch. Sister colors. Brother plays with puzzles and a couple of computer games.

Sister brings Abiyoyo to me to read. Instead I suggest that we read it together.
I do the big words and she reads all of the small ones. (A, an, the, and, in, up,
boy, father, and the like.) Many she knows already and many other she sounds out
on her own. After doing so well she is inspired to read "The Little Red Hen"
together as well.

10/22 - Discussion about the calendar and Daylight Savings Time that expanded to include telling time and counting by 5's.

Much time is spent making AquaDot creations.

The Jeff Corwin Experience and a Linda Ellerbee show about Pandas are the favorite shows of the day.


10/23 - Sister makes a treasure map for Brother then hides a treasure of beads. She returns and leads an expedition to find the lost treasure.

Karate day.

10/19 - Sister & Dad go to Starry Safari at the Tulsa Zoo. It's kind of like camping out in the wild because you are surround by wild animals but much safer because they are all in cages.

Brother and I stay at Grandma's. The next day the cousins came to play for the afternoon. Much fun was had by all. We drive home late on Saturday and get up for church the next morning. Sister learns about Solomon and his dream where he chooses wisdom instead of riches. I can tell she is quite intrigued by this.

Sister dictates her birthday thank you notes. I type them on the computer then she formats them by changing the colors and adding pictures.

We read the remainder of Peter Rabbit.

Brother spends the morning in imaginary play and counting the numbers on each page of the calendar.

Kids watch Cyberchase and Reading Rainbow

After lunch, Sister determines to wash the car... and the front windows on the house. Brother helps.

Karate lesson

Fun with balloons

Brother plays computer games while Dad and Sister play Harvest Moon (the farm game)

The children create a number of musical numbers on the new toy piano.

Sister invents a game of balloon soccer. (Amazingly difficult on a windy day.)

We begin reading the Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter