Unschooling Journal May 19-25, 2019

Spring in Vancouver is always beautiful. Being free to spend time as an unschooler makes this time of the year even more magical. Here’s how Ethan’s week unfolded.

May 19

Ethan made a video about some of his favourite origami.
Origami collection, thus far.
He’s been making a marble track.
Editing the video he made.
Heading out for a walk and picking flowers.
The tide was quite far out today, leaving several small tide pools. Another boy and his mom found this tiny eel and Ethan was able to catch it. He also found several hermit crabs.
Ethan and the other boy releasing their catch.
We went for a sushi lunch, which wasn’t the original plan. We’d like Ethan to be more open to trying new things. We wanted to have tacos but Ethan didn’t want them. We then decided to go to a Japanese ramen place, even though it was still wasn’t Ethan’s first choice. Unfortunately, it was closed and we ended up having sushi, meaning Ethan got his way, in spite of our best efforts 🙂
Ethan made this large origami boomerang.
A skinny boomerang.
Always studying and learning about origami. We finished the day by watching Our Planet, a documentary to help us understand how the planet has changed for animals and why we should take action to help stop or reverse the damage we are doing.

May 20

We took it easy today and just hung out at home because of the rainy weather.

Even though it was a holiday, Ethan still completed his Monday tasks, like doing math. They each tried to solve for x and compared answers afterward.
In addition to making a lot of origami boomerangs today, Ethan wanted some larger sheets of origami paper. We did some research and found out that kraft paper is a great choice for origami. We had a large 23″ x 24″ sheet that Ethan cut into a 23″ x 23″ square.
He then proceeded to fold a large origami dragon.
We also had some large sheets of tissue paper so he started working on something with the tissue paper. He spent the rest of the night watching another episode of Our Planet.

May 21

Making an origami maze.
There’s a starting arrow near the bottom right corner. You follow the folds until you get to the exit in the upper right corner.