The Greatest Free, Ad-Free Homeschool Brain Game!
UnschoolDays
by brian
5y ago
When you are running errands, when your kids are sitting in the backseat of the car, when you are sitting on the bus, while you are riding bikes, or when you just seem to have nothing to talk about at the time. Try this fantastic silence-breaking brain-builder! When they know their letters, or even before! Remember the board game Scatergories? You rolled a letter die and had a timer to write a word for each of the categories all starting with the selected letter. Next round had different categories. This game is called Guess the Letters and Categories. It’s started by simply asking, ‘H ..read more
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Fun Tracing Play: Oops, I Mean Schoolwork
UnschoolDays
by brian
5y ago
When your four year old says, ‘Dad, can you make me another tracing picture?’ you know it was well worth the ten minutes to set it up the first time! While the classic tracing surface is a window during the day time, it’s often dark outside when we are creative. And the kids are just learning how to write and draw, so a table type method is not only more comfortable, but it’s better suited for their tiny hands just learning proper wrist positions and whatnot. I already had all the parts lying around to set this up, however, after searching online afterwards that there are lots of cheap D ..read more
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The Dandelion Games
UnschoolDays
by brian
5y ago
What is never scheduled in structured playtime : Playing a game of Dandelion with dandelions. We went to feed squirrels. Well, we actually went to pick up her first bike from Kijiji…we just brought peanuts because it was close to the park. “That goose is out of place!” – the four year old quickly noticed, on the way to the park, that Canada Geese should be near the river, or flying overhead – not waddling its way down the middle of a road all willy nilly-like. Pushing her bike along with them en route to the park, thinking ‘this thing looks gigantic, how’s she going to ride that? Well ..read more
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Unschool Experiment G2R
UnschoolDays
by brian
5y ago
“Hey, did you both know raisins come from grapes?” The six year old knew that already, it was new to the four year old. I was holding a handful of grapes, one a little more wrinkled than the others and other than being brushed off as ‘disgusting’ I offered up an experiment idea. I told them I knew that raisins came from grapes, but I didn’t really know how they did it. Were they dehydrated with machines? Were all sorts of things added to them? Or was it simply drying out grapes?? “We have a heater, wanna try that out?” After a few days in front of the heater, (this image is from day fou ..read more
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Are the deer still there in the winter? I don’t know. Let’s go see!
UnschoolDays
by brian
5y ago
She asked me, ‘do you think the deer are still there in the winter? I figured they probably were but didn’t know for sure. There was only one thing to do. Well, two things. Get the camera, and go to the graveyard. It was a beautiful winter day and we didn’t even need coats for the few minutes we were out in the snow. We found them. We stopped. I told them to stay close, but she had a camera. I understood she needed a better shot, so I let her continue her mission. Going for a better shot, no time to worry about inside-out shirts or whatever the four year old’s deer pic ..read more
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