Day(s) in the Life without schooling #2
And the unspoken things we do behind the sentences we write.
Hello friends!
This weekend’s post is my monthly Day in the Life!
But first, let me share a bit about the March zoom call. We are going to talk about digital devices and whether we can have screen neutrality (you know, much like food neutrality).
I’m so looking forward to it.
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The link and details are in this post. We can also use this thread to discuss!
Now for the DITL.
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I’m actually going to share 2 days today, Tuesday and Thursday, because I feel like they were so radically different and this often happens in our days. Often we want every day to be a perfect little microcosm of our life, and it just isn’t.
I’ve kind of stopped taking stock of our life on a daily basis because I find it can be so counterproductive; instead, I look at a whole week, or a whole month, and if I feel like we’ve checked a variety of boxes and everyone was, on average, getting their needs met- well, that’s more than enough.
For brevity, I’ve condensed our days more than a usually would.
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Tuesday
6.45am This isn’t my usual wakeup time, but I teach an online writing class to 3 teens at 7am Tuesday, and in classic fashion I wake up just in time to make me coffee and log in. I love this class and the young people in it!
After the class I worked a little bit on a post I was writing and had my breakfast.
I also added a few interesting videos and resources to my children’s Trello pages. Do you use Trello with your kids? It works great for both of mine because it’s less of me suggesting things directly, and more of them logging in and finding new links to (optionally)look at every day.
I share short videos, podcasts, articles, recipes, books, and more.
9.30am L got up and started reading one of his Wings of Fire books. He asked me to make him porridge, and continued reading through breakfast.
10am P got up and read her book over breakfast too. Then we googled whether the radish she is growing was ready to pick and reckoned it was, so we went for it. She grew this indoors, and it’s very weirdly shaped but it was yummy (I had it for my lunch! She’s not a fan of radish.)
10.30ish L took a look at his Trello. The night before he’d had the idea of making a Zelda-themed lego, and we wrote it down under “to do”. We looked up some pictures of the monster he wanted to build, and then I helped him find the right colour lego pieces and he worked on that.
P is working her way through a Middle School Biology course on Kahn Academy, so she did a unit of that.