Unschooling Journal June 23-29, 2019

We’ve had friends from out of town here and it’s been exciting for all of us, but especially for Ethan. It’s also Ethan’s last official week of having to do his studying tasks so he’s looking forward to not having a schedule of things to do.

June 23

Morning jog. Saw this heron.
Collecting sea glass.
Hiking in Cypress Hills Park to meet up with Charles and his family.
Ethan and Avalon had a blast playing in the creek. Just further down, the creek drops off and 30 feet.
Shoes and socks needed some wringing out.
Looking for a waterfall.
Counting the rings on a tree that had fallen and was then cut in half for people to walk by.
Avalon and Ethan enjoyed a very long game of gladiator.
Battling.
This dog enjoyed having sticks and a ball thrown so Ethan and Avalon played with him for a while.

June 24

Ethan made a pinball machine using a spring and empty ink tube from a pen as the plunger.
Ethan was curious about his IQ because he heard that his auntie’s IQ is 132. So we found an online Stanford Binet IQ test for him to try.
Nico and Paulo came over to hang out and play.
Ethan made a gravity well out of paper.

June 25

Organizing his new periodic table cards.
Decoding practice.

June 26

Not sure how this happened but no photos from today. I’m sure he did his usual lots of things, though.

UPDATE: There were photos on a different camera! Here they are…

He loves these books.
Helping a neighbour pick up mail and the paper.
Watering her plants.

June 27

He’s been re-reading some of the classic books we have, like Mary Poppins.

June 28

Out for our morning jog.
Working on the integers using Elements of Mathematics.
We went over to the house where our friends are staying and had dinner with them. Ethan and Avalon formed the cookie dough and helped bake the cookies that we had for dessert.

June 29

Using Elements of Mathematics to learn about measurement and tanagrams.
Ethan spent all afternoon and evening building a new marble track out of card stock.