Ok, so I wish I was better at this... 1/11/10

Well, It has been much time since my last post and there are so many things to talk about. Unschooling isn't my favorite term these days, but is my most favorite way to homeschool!!!! We were recently interviewed for a local TV station Teen Show by a couple of the local high school students. Wow what an experience!
The Unschooling, or "Student Led Learning" as I like to call it... has been amazing.
VWNut has pulled out Math and Science books without being asked. We don't fight to do any work at all any more. He signed up for an Economics class on Florida Virtual School all on his own. 
Lil Cuz draws, writes, journals all day long. She has started playing computer "math" games learning mastering multiplication at Funbrain She has written plays and acted them out with The Princess.
The Princess plays games with letters and writing and since has decided that she doesn't want to learn to read write now we just say we are playing games and all the while... shhh don't tell her... we are reading! She loves Math and all the fun games we do with that. She decided to count the money in her piggy bank the other day and so we decided to learn about money and we made a graph and estimated and grouped and counted by 1's, 5's, 10's, and 25's and had a blast!
UNSCHOOLING, u-hem, I mean Student Led Learning.... IS SO INCREDIBLE!!!! We are all so much happier for it!

8/28/09

I have been absolutely horrible about blogging the last week and a half. I am hoping to improve that when school starts.
Sooo, I have been working hard to prepare for school. It's always so much fun in the beginning, it's following through to the end. So we shall she how this goes.
To recap the last 10 days I will make it easy on myself and just post some pics....

Preparing to School 8/28/09

I have been absolutely horrible about blogging the last week and a half. I am hoping to improve that when school starts.
Sooo, I have been working hard to prepare for school. It's always so much fun in the beginning, it's following through to the end. So we shall she how this goes.
To recap the last 10 days I will make it easy on myself and just post some pics....

8/27/09

Wow, life sure does fly by... I keep trying to sit down and force myself to write, but there are so many distractions. I don't know how people keep up with this stuff! I am only whining beacause I'm jealous.

Anyway, here's a recap of the last 10 days...
Aug 18, 2009
On my last post Lil Cuz and the Princess were working on their "All About Me" lapbooks. Lil Cuz, who is new at homeschooling with Sunshine School, absolutely LOVED it. So a project that should have filled up at least 3 days for the girls, took her only 1 day to finish. Therefore I will have to plan more accordingly for her in the future. LOL.
Poor VWnut has been working desperately to finish the school work he put off all summer til the last minute (sounds familiar-like me procrastinating with this blog), and is miserable with the fact that he doesn't get to do fun stuff like that... LOL
Aug 19, 2009
The typical Swing Dance night, arrive for the class, dance our little hearts out and then come home and crash.
Aug 20, 2009
Had the Babies... niece and nephew over for the night, that was a lot of fun. Time to pull out some old preschool activities. What a blast! Everybody had a good time. Unfortunately the A/c unit 1 of 2 exploded, was entertaining but sucked for the sleeping department. So we all camped out in the living room (where the existing unit flourished and left condensation on the windows due to being turned way down to compensate for the extinguished unit =) LOL).
Aug 22, 2009
Made a preschool friendly breakfast for the Babies and everyone.
Even VWnut had some.
Then decided to go for a walk to the dock and park close to the house... with everybody, boy was that an exercise in patience!!!
Collected some shells (science)... and then caught a ride back home... Thanks Daddy
Played some more and had a nice long nap!
Aug 23, 2009 ~Sunday~ The Day of Rest!
And we rested.... not really, but I got a lot of work done, cleaning and organizing the classroom in an attempt to get ready for our school year.
Aug 24, 2009
I took the day to help VWnut meet his deadline. He has to finish his work by Tuesday... but unfortunately, he did not make it so he missed out on a fun day
Aug 25, 2009
MOSI day (Museum of Science and Industry), had their Free Homeschool Day! We and a bunch of friends and family join us on an amazing adventure through the museum! The kids and the Babies, had a blast.
Unfortunately VWnut was stuck home finishing up work. What a bummer, if only he had met his deadline!

8/21/09

Since my last attempt at blogging we have had a busy few days.
We went ice skating with other homeschoolers and discovered and amazing homeschool program.
Lil' Cuz and the Princess had a glorious time and have decided it's time to take up ice skating and add that to their repertoire.
The Princess had decided that if she takes up classes, she won't have to be slowed down by the bar.
Lil' Cuz and her beau, Logan. What a heartthrob!!

We went swing dancing...

Next we had a busy day attempting to set up our classroom and get organized....

Then we were sabotaged... just not quite fair!

Then we had gorgeous little visitors tonight and tomorrow! What fun!

The Big Handbook of Nature Study.... For Free

Okay I'm sorry it's been so long, and I've written so many times, but never got to finish and post my thoughts. But I came across this amazing deal and wanted to share it.

I subscribe to Homeschool Freebie of the Day and get all kinds of awesome ebooks and audio files for free. It's an amazing service. And... this weeks takes the cake! Check it out here they are giving a way this week and entire Nature Study ebook... for free! It's a must see!