inspiring post from an unschooling mother

Posted by: "Lisa" jlblock01@yahoo.com jlblock01
Thu May 8, 2008 1:03 pm (PDT)
This morning my 6 yr old asked the little boy that we are fostering
right now why he had to go to school... the boy replied that you HAD
to go to school to learn so you could get a good job... Jack thought
about it for a second and said "what happens if you don't get a GOOD
job? I think I would rather have a fun job" Funny how some adults
don't even get this and my 6 yr old has it figured out!

Oh and for the record... my father never took a woodworking class and
builds beautiful furniture which he learned to build from a book.. the
tools he uses ...learned to use those from a book also...my mother
learned to make beautiful baskets from a book, my husband learned car
repair from a book none were ever "taught" by anyone. One summer I
taught myself to play the alto saxophone... when I returned to school
and told my music director I wanted to switch from clarinet to
saxophone that I had learned over the summer he refused to let me
until I lied and said I took lessons! All of my children have
learned tons of things from books while never being taught by anyone
else. Anyone ever heard of "independent study"???
Lisa

ALL TIME FAVOURITE Activity

for more on this activity visit:

http://textodigital.com/P/GG/bidxc.php

classroom in action

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A-Z song

Most of the boys love cars...so does my son...
I helped him to his A to Z with his fav subject....cars
A for Alto
B for Baleno
C for Corolla
D for Datsun(international)
E for Esteem
F for Fabia
G for Getz
H for Honda City
I for Ikon
J for Jeep
K for Kompressor
L for Lancer
M for Matiz
N for Nexia
O for Octavia
P for Pajero
Q for Qualis
R for Renault
S for Santro
T for Tavera
U for Uno
V for Versa
W for Wagon-R
X for Xeta
Y for Yuppie ( imaginary)
Z for Zen
I have recorded the song on my cellphone...actually its my voice with a slideshow...its his favourite.

cellphone and multi-lingual rhymes

a CELLPHONE is a great tool , my preschooler son loves to listen rhymes again and again and again....i have recorded his fav rhymes and hand over the cellphone to him, the GUI has enabled him to understand the path of these recording and he loads it and lo! he can hear his mother singing as long /many times, to hearts content. i have friends from varied cultures...they have recorded rhymes in various languages and it has helped him pick up other language rhymes too...they r memorized within 2 days. the best part is that my child is in control of what he wants to learn and is very skillfully accomplishing language skills.

Week 2 With Veer at home!

Week 2 With Veer at home!
http://www.4faculty.org/includes/digdeeper/lesson4/multipleintelligences.htm
http://www.todaysteacher.com/MILearningActivities.htm

linguistic
made a book on bamboo tree...have a plant with lots of sparrows chirping all day
opposites: wide and narrow, raw and ripe
singing Hindi Rhyme....he's ready with 3 absolutely memorized
Reading a set of Books: Bruno and his life....lost, lied, shared, etc.
I am interacting in 5 language, Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi and Sindhi.

logical and mathematical
introduce him to shapes puzzles called tangram...on the computer
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/sebran/
counting forward and backwards

spatial devlopment
solving mazes

kinesthetic devlopment
book balancing oh head and walking forward and backward

musical devlopment
sang the song do re mi..."Sound of Music" all week long

interpersonal devlopment
greeting to incoming phone-calls
teaching grandmother to operate the DVD player
sharing
Brushing right

intrapersonal devlopment:
http://www.eltnewsletter.com/back/March2000/art52000.shtml

posted a greeting card to "Nani"
Coached him to switch from saying "mera" to "hamara"
Encouraged him to speak to a shop Assistant at Coffee Cafe Day and went for a walk in the kitchen area.

naturalistic devlopment
made an alphabet scrap book on nature
growing garden saplings

spiritual
reciting Gurbani at bed time

kids learn more when parents talk less

Early morning on my walk around mango trees, i picked up excitedly tiny little raw mangoes. I wld go home and show veer ....this is the first time ever he wld see a raw and tiny mango. As i hurried home a thought occurred, as a child my father wld bring home varied things from nature but never show it to me.....he just left them around. When i wld wake up, and find something new on the table around...i wld be amazed, wonderstruck, inquisitive and filled with lots of feelings. .....I REALISED....if I showed the tiny mangoes to veer, i wld leave him poorer in learning and emotional connections....so i just left the tiny mangoes around on the table.