Here’s a glimpse of what we’ve been doing:
Wildcraft.
Playground visit.
Roller skating. Climbing. Bouncing.
Math puzzling. Addition, subtraction and division. Finally, exploring fractions!
Walk by the Jordan river, counting birds and recording them for the Audubon’s national backyard bird count. We saw red winged blackbirds, mallards, coots, starlings, geese, robins, and chickadees.
Putting together many pieces of furniture for new craft storage, game storage and moving Chris’ workspace into our room so he’s not in our living space trying to concentrate while the kids and I play. One of the biggest things I worried about when we began seriously considering unschooling was how to give the kids access to resources at home. We had and have a lot of resources but they weren’t easy to get to, they weren’t organized, and we didn’t really have good spaces for activities as I wanted to provide. So we thought about it and thought about what we wanted and then began to reorganize. There are storage units with tubs for toys in our living room. One of them doubles as a bench for cuddling or looking out the window. We just added craft supply storage in bins, so that our supplies are not crammed in cupboards, forgotten about for months because they are so inconvenient to get out and find what you’re looking for. We also added game storage, open boxes so that games can be seen at a glance but still out of the way. We adore games so we wanted a good size place to keep them safe but handy. Not many days go by that there’s not a board game or card game (or three!) played in our house. Here are the kids putting together a drawer.
Here is our game storage, newly built and populated! Yes, we have a lot of games, and that’s only about half. The others are out of rotation in the closet.
Here are the storage items we put in over the summer to better prepare our space for easy exploration and enjoyment. The first picture shows toys in bins and the bench by the window. The second is more toys, dvds, photo albums, the tv.
