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Hi friends & family!  After what seemed like an endless "school break," we're finally back to our normal schedule!  I still don't have a handle on what "unschooling" means, but I think that's just what we've been doing.  We weren't in the schoolroom much at the table doing the set curriculum, but we've been learning together so much.  The girls have enjoyed baking bread with me, reading Anne of Green Gables (the revised version) together, and  exploring creation!  I guess there's a little bit of that type A personality in me though, because my heart sang when we got out our organized curriculum this week! So, Adalyn has been learning how to tell time and she loves it.  Yesterday we wrote down a daily schedule together so she can look at it and look at the clocks and have a general awareness of what (might......I'm more spontaneous than I am type A!) be going on at certain times of the day.  When we were finished, we decided to put a green star beside every time slot that could also be filled with serving God.  "Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord!"  She was excited to see that we can serve Him all day long no matter what we're doing! We had a really fun (and EASY) science experiment following our reading of "Rebekah at the Well."  We looked at pictures of camels and talked about how God made their feet in special ways.  Then we took pencils and quarters outside to the sandbox.  The pencils represent an animals leg with small feet; you push the pencil down into the sand and observe how easily it sinks.  The quarters represent the camels large foot; you put the quarter on the bottom of the pencil and try to push the quarter into the sand with the pencil.  The quarter does not sink so easily!  They thought that was amazing and we praised God for his wisdom in making the camels foot special so that the camels can survive in their sandy habitats! Fun times!  Looking forward to next week!

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Posted by dianadow

You're doing a great job. We've been unschooling in the worst since of the word lately. With my dad and Danny's dad in the hospital, out of town visitors, a trip to MS, we've been swamped. But, of course, the children have learned a lot of very valuable lessons, just not what was on the schedule.

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