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outdoor hour challenge & music ideas
November 12, 2008 | 
Author well i’m still stumbling along…but haven’t found time to blog…sorry…i’ll get back to it, i really want to be better at keeping track of things here.
but right now i wanted to post about this thing i discovered on another blog, the “outdoor hour challenge.” i am going to be starting this with my kids…since i’ve not found time to organize anything science related. i’ve not found time for a lot of things. but maeven continues to learn…and read read read…she’s whizzing through chapter books now! so time is not wasted. and life is a learning experience…and she finds her own projects to do all the time. i’m very proud of her!
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school less, teach more
i just had to share this post from a blog i subscribe to that i thought was very powerful.
being that i’ve had a hard time getting focused time with maeven for “school”, it makes me feel pretty good reading that and realizing that i do a fair amount of those things already. and i’ve been seriously wanting to get us involved in volunteering…just have to find the time to find something that will work with a 3yr old in tow. this is spurring me to look!
some more goals
since i feel like blogging more, i thought i’d share a list i’m working on. i created this in the back cover of my lesson planner. i add to it when i think of more ideas. i’ve got a good list going now, so i thought i’d post it.
these are things that i want my kids to experience or be exposed to:
- theater, especially musicals
- diverse music–jazz (dixieland and smooth), classical, rock/pop, country, reggae, celtic, blues, gospel…and i may allow some rap, only if its not offensive and something like will smith (i HATE rap!)
- handcrafts–woodworking, pottery, knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, sewing, waldorf crafts, etc…
- fine arts–painting, sculpting, etc…
- languages–particularly sign language and spanish
- many cultures–festivals, feasts, holidays, meals, music, dress, traditions, languages..
- travel–california, the US, and the world!
- memorization–of poetry, sayings, important writings, etc…for poetry, start with shel silverstein, dr seuss, mother goose…
