A Week of Unschooling

The unschooling method of homeschooling involves encouraging kids to pursue their interests by helping them find resources and exposing them to new topics, ideas and materials. That is exactly what happens in our house when we take time off from school. Here are a few of the educational activities that took place at our house during our break last week.

Exploring Gears (math, science, social skills)

Reading How Math Works (math, reading)

Cooking (math, responsibility, reading)

Designing a House with Google Sketch-up (math, engineering, computer skills, art)

Playing Battleship (math, strategy, social skills)

Much more went on during our week; sewing animal hats, creating with modeling clay, playing outdoors, history co-op, creating and videoing plays, and more, and more, and more....... but yet we are not unschoolers - why? Maybe someday we will be?

Jemma's doing well and we are scheduled to visit the hospital on Wednesday. In fact, we are scheduled to visit the hospital every two weeks until June. If she gets a fever or normal kid illness, we will make additional hospital visits. In the mean time, her life is very normal for a 6 year old child.

This blog has been a useful tool for communicating updates in Jemma's Leukemia treatments and we are all so happy to be in a regular maintenance routine. With this change the Monday blog posts have been transformed from Leukemia updates into updates on what the family had done throughout the week and I feel they are no longer necessary. If there are medical issues in the future I will be sure to write about them, but don't plan to provide updates on a weekly basis. Thank you all so much for your support.

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