The last week of May! I’ve spoken to a few people recently about unschooling and have heard other people’s thoughts about the school system and what Ethan is doing.
The greatest benefits that people have mentioned are time with your child and allowing him/her to follow their passions. It’s not always that rosy of a picture but those are definitely things we are grateful for.
Here’s Ethan’s latest week of unschooling…
May 26
Sunday morning walk and practice skipping stones. 
Both need more practice 🙂 
Smacking the water is always fun, though. 
Breakfast out in the sun after our walk. 
Ethan found a kid to play with. He’s always been very good about finding someone to play with wherever we are. He’s always been like this. 
Back to the beach and playing on the tree that washed up this past week. 
Dong Eun picked some wild flowers on the way home. 
Ethan made this exploding bricks origami. When you pull it apart, the “bricks” expand out, hence the exploding part. 
Loves science. 
He made a transforming origami star. 
I think he said this was a pincher.
UPDATE: Nope. It’s a clapping star.
May 27
Learned about how iron is used. 
Learning about the Middle Ages. 
Read some Tom Sawyer. 
Nico and Paulo came over to play. Ethan was excited all day waiting for them come. They almost didn’t make it and Ethan was a bit disappointed. Luckily, they wanted to play with Ethan so they came over.
May 28
After today’s walk along the beach. 
Learned about cobalt. 
Learned about gamma radiation. He wasn’t too sure when Dong Eun asked him to explain what it is but he eventually figured it out. 
Chilling at the library after taekwondo and violin.
May 29
Heading out to nature school. 
All done nature school! 
Back home and worked on some math. 
Learning about the elements. 
Editing a new video. 
Made a card for nickel today. 
Spent time playing with Algodoo.
May 30
Reading this again on his own. 
Sea glass collected from this morning’s jog/walk. 
Orange teeth? 
Playing with Algodoo again today. 
Did some violin practice. 
Made a card for copper. 
Published his video about why you can’t divide by zero.
May 31
Morning at the beach. “Lookin’ sharp” today 🙂 
He noticed the notch in the rock and tried making some sand. He noticed the rock was wet and could make some sand that he used to make a clay/chalk substance. Perfect for body paint. 
We find many things on the beach. 
These birds came right up to them. 
Learning about elements. 
Music notation homework. 
Drawing a timeline of history. 
Doing some research on history. 
It was the Bridge Festival at Ambleside Park, which was an event showcasing art, music and food from different cultures. 
Doing more work on the rock by trying to make a bigger dent in it.
June 1
Last day of skating lessons for the season. He passed, btw! 
Learning more about neutron stars. 
Dinner at the beach tonight! 
He almost fell in the water three times while balancing on the tree trunk and hanging onto a wobbly branch. 
We finished the day watching a documentary about Darwin’s Tree of Life from the BBC.
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