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How to Eat Fried Caterpillars

How to Eat Fried Caterpillars

Posted on April 24, 2019 Posted in Eat, Homeschool, Parent Tagged with casual experiments, food processing, hunting/gathering, slaughter, unschooling, wildlife neighbors

After watching Bear Grylls do it, King Sturdy wanted to eat a caterpillar.

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Four homeschooling styles that shape our curriculum

Four homeschooling styles that shape our curriculum

Posted on September 14, 2016 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with classical schooling, common core, curricula, unschooling

There are a lot of different ways to homeschool: different curricula of course, also different philosophies. Here’s the mishmash of approaches that I like, with a broad-brush description of how I think about each. Unschooling …

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten

Posted on September 13, 2016 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with unschooling

Five-year-olds had a big first, last week. They started school. Parents were excited and weepy. Kids were excited and scared. Teachers were excited and reassuring. All the hubbub was sweet and exciting even from a …

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Rube Goldberg Machine

Rube Goldberg Machine

Posted on June 12, 2016 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with casual experiments, science, unschooling

The other day in school, we talked to King Sturdy about potential and kinetic energy, then showed him an OK Go video to illustrate. Today, he had his heart set on building a Rube Goldberg …

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If my children were fairy tale characters, they'd be King Sturdy and Shortshanks. I'd be the Master Maid. As for the mister, he'd be Boots of course.

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