Thursday, April 3, 2008

Easter Break at Our House









We were on Easter Break last week. I thought it would be interesting to jot down what Sam does when we're not schooling. Here's a quick list of his free activities:



  • Climbed his tree
  • Created a pulley system through trial and error in order to take books and water up into his tree
  • Read some of his Magic Treehouse books aloud (He was reading chapter books, people--this is my kindergartner!)
  • Put together a puzzle of the United States
  • Built with KEVA planks
  • Went to the zoo, located places on the map, and read the signs
  • Read some signs on the freeway
  • Went to the grocery store, weighed produce, learned to read prices (Those pesky decimal points are important--who knew that onions weren't really $99 a lb.?)
  • Cooked and washed dishes
  • Drew and wrote in his journal
  • Rode his scooter
  • Learned to jump on his skateboard
  • Attended swimming lessons
  • Counted by 2s, 5s, and 10s just for fun
  • Worked on teaching his two-year-old sister to recognize A
  • Explored the properties of water
  • Built with zome tools
  • Organized his books for the sheer pleasure of it (He said he wanted his "research" books to be in their own special place.)
  • Browsed through the dictionary

This isn't even a complete list! It's amazing what kids will do when learning isn't treated as something to be done in a school building. I'm so excited to see my kids view learning as a fun and interesting part of everyday life.

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