Another Wildflowerism

Yeah, way to go trying to start something new the day before Xmas eve. I will get back to those postings once the new year comes. Our schedule is crazy between now and then.
But just a minute ago, I was talking to Shark about something, and I said, “Yeah, someday someone will sweep [...]

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Unschooling Day 2

Watched Rudolph.
Played in her book nook.- imagination
Went over the Nativity story again.-Bible
Introduced her to Montessori style sound cylinders.- sensory
Played puzzles and blocks.- spatial
Watched some more TV (I need to just get rid of the thing).
Daddy came home at which point she went nuts, and we took the recycling to the drop off, and went out [...]

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Unschooling Day 1

Which is a joke really, because haven’t we been unschooling since the day she was born? But this is the first day I’m recording the stuff we did and trying to correlate it with subject matter, so I can see what it is we’re actually doing.
In the morning, she watched some TV/DVD I don’t know [...]

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Something new I’m trying

I’ve been having a hard time with not accomplishing my homeschooling plans.  I hear this is fairly common in homeschooling families, especially ones as relaxed as we are. So, instead, I’m going to post the things we did today here, with pictures if applicable, and draw educational correlations. For example, if we read books, I’ll [...]

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Ok, so I like the lolcats

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Emergency Preparedness

I’m feeling the need to be prepared.
Things I want to research:L
Earthship building
Cob building
Solar ovens
Solar power
livestock
heirloom seeds
intensive gardening (think path to freedom/food not lawns)
food storage
preserving without freezing or canning
root cellaring
I know my blog has been crappy lately- it’s just that there are so many things rushing around in my head, it’s been hard to put it [...]

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