The latest in unschooling is Jonah craving his own magic wand from a local rhododendron tree. We picked in at night at the New Moon. (We had a bit of a poison sumac scare... but that's a story for another time...)
Since then, the family wood carver has been working on his wand.
He doesn't spend an enormous amount of time on it each day - just a few minutes here and there in between Minecraft, Wizard 101, science workbooks, spy missions around the neighborhood, building with LEGOs, and lounging in the $30 baby pool from Walmart that currently lives in our backyard - but he does spend time on it each day.
He even had his very first wood carving injury yesterday on his thumb.
I admit... we were both kinda proud.
He refused a band-aid and showed it off to his sister, friends, and dad.
Battle scars for the warrior.
Sometimes I worry that unschooling isn't "working". And then I think... what does that even mean?
My kid is carving a magic wand out of a tree branch we harvested at the New Moon.
So...carving, moon cycles, fantasy, tree identification... that's science, life skills, literature...
And joy.
Lately...
There's been a lot of Joy.
No comments:
Post a Comment
We love respectful, kind, courteous comments about anything and everything to do with our blog. We appreciate your input and engaging conversation, and the development of further thought. Please be respectful of others - disrespectful comments and trolling will not be tolerated.