When Ethan used to get up in the mornings for school, it was always a rush. But with unschooling, the mornings are relaxed and Ethan usually wakes up and starts working on something.
Morning
This morning, he worked on some origami, just doing some free-folding to see what shapes he could come up with. He ended up with a fortune teller type of design.
Next, Ethan pulled out his compass and drew a new design.
Next, he worked on solving a couple his Rubik’s Cubes.
This next one is the Rubik’s Triamid, which he got for Christmas but hasn’t been able to solve. So today he spent some time learning about this cube and eventually solved it. (Yes, it’s supposed to come apart when solving it!)
Chinese Lanterns
We’re going to host a Chinese New Year dinner, so Ethan made some Chinese Lanterns from instructions he found online.
Ethan then wanted to play with one of his 3×3 Rubik’s Cubes and made a cube-in-a-cube pattern with it.
Taekwondo and Mindfulness
Ethan went to his taekwondo and mindfulness classes. At mindfulness class, he made something that helps you check how tense or relaxed you are.
If you’re stressed or out of breath, you’ll be able to see the condition that you are in by how much the ribbons are moving. When you are calm and breathing normally, the ribbons will move less and more evenly.
Ethan then read some science books and wanted to know what causes audio feedback.
So we tried producing feedback by Facetiming each other with my phone held close to his laptop.
And we did some research on how audio feedback is created and how feedback has been used in music. Artists like The Beatles, Lou Reed and Jimi Hendrix have used feedback in their songs.
So we looked up the songs and listened to them to hear how feedback was used.
Ethan added “I Feel Fine” by The Beatles into his Spotify playlist.
Next, he practiced his taekwondo pattern and kicks.
And read the story of the World book before getting ready for bed.
Ethan remembered that he needed to bring in some information about a medicinal plant for nature school, so he did some research on local plants.
Ethan was able to keep himself busy throughout the day. We’re quite happy with how he can find things to do and learn.
We’re still working on setting up our place to be more education so that Ethan can find something of interest everywhere he looks.
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