Suddenly It's Very School-y Around Here

This morning Davan was doing more work on the states. Last night, after gymnastics, she made a chart of the states in the order in which they became states. This morning she started individual one page reports on each state, with a drawing of the state and an assortment of facts about that state. So far, she's only completed Delaware, but it's a through job and she's working on Pennsylvania, even though she was interrupted by the Juliette (independent Girl Scouts) meeting we went to this morning.

However, after only a short while of working post Juliettes, it was lunch time and, during lunch, her newest Odyssey magazine captured her attention. We really love the Cricket magazines around here. My parents are kind enough to give Davan 4 different subscriptions from them and she just devours them when they arrive. It was enough that the state work area has been temporarily abandoned.


This month's issue is about robots and Davan is into it. There are experiments to do and she is planning on doing them as soon as she's done reading.


What a lot of "school" work for the unschooler. It doesn't always look like this around here, but that's one of the great things about unschooling. You just go where your interest lay. If that's with doing hours upon hours of gymnastics and building a Mt Everest out of whatever is on hand in the living room to work with for tobogganing, great. If it's writing reports on states and reading and doing experiments with robots, also great. It means so much more if you want to do it.