August 22nd - September 4th, 2011

No conference is complete without donuts

Watch
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
iCarly
Northeast Unschooling Conference (NEUC) Talent Show
Space Balls the animated series
Let's Play videos
New Vi Hart

Play
Little Big Planet 2 - PS3
WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS
Battleship
Cars - PS3
Various flash games - online
Hambo - online
Papa's Pizzaria - online
Snail Bob 2 - online
Splitter Pals - online
Papa's Freezeria - online

Read/Research
Conference schedule
The Best of Archie Comics
Diary of a Whimpy Kid, book 1
Spy vs. Spy
Archie Comics Halloween
ASK Magazine
Lego Anatomy

Friday's (day 2 of NEUC) schedule

Discuss
Hurricane safety, what is a hurricane & how are they different than typhoons & tornadoes
Difference between a lake & a pond

Tribute to Hurricane Irene who visited us as a tropical storm @ NEUC

Write
IOU

Listen
Welcome speech at NEUC
'On Point': Whales Have Developed a Religion - NPR (radio)
Music on the radio

Create
Play dough sculptures
Duct tape flowers
Obstacle course
Drew pictures of 'cities'

Go/Community
Northeast Unschooling Conference (NEUC) - August 25th - August 29th
Sheridan Colonial Hotel & Conference Center (Wakefield, MA)
NEUC Picnic - August 29th
Wakefield, MA - August 24th - August 30th
Salem Willows (Salem, MA)
Salem, MA - August 29th
Dunkin' Donuts (Wakefield, MA)
Subway (Wakefield, MA)
Sushi Island (Wakefield, MA)
Omelette Headquarters (Wakefield, MA)
George Washington Bridge (New York, NY)
The Pop Shop (Collingswood, NJ)
The Crowne Plaza (Cherry Hill, NJ)
Burger King
Java House (2.5hrs)

NEUC Picnic

Health/PE/Safety
Dancing
Discussed hurricane safety (Hurricane Irene)
Experimentation with recipes:
Special Smoothie juice - vanilla soy milk, mango madness smoothie & cranberry harvest juice
Edible Matches - carrot sticks dipped in ketchup

2018-2022 High School Transcript + Course Descriptions

While Elijah has not decided whether or not he wants to go to college, it seemed like a good idea to go ahead and make one for them as it can still be useful for employment. I know from the experience that many colleges and even some employers like to have course descriptions for the credits given to unschooled/homeschooled students and a portfolio to get a better idea of what they have learned and the kind of adventures they have lived. Here is Elijah's high school transcript. When it came time to write course names it was not too difficult since Elijah mainly had wanted to engage with some more traditional subjects, but it is not too difficult to take a survey of what a homeschooler has been doing and translate it into a more traditional subject/course for the purpose of creating a transcript. When I began thinking about course descriptions, I talked to several people who had already graduated unschoolers are the best advice I kept hearing was to not reinvent the wheel. The numb...

Portfolio Summary 2017-2018

This year Elijah's main focus again was on Linguistics. He spent the vast majority of the year immersed in the world of languages, writing systems, and phonetics. Language Arts: Elijah reads online articles on a regular basis for information and pleasure. He enjoys writing emails, grocery lists, and determining phonologies and pronominal morphologies using Lexilogos.com. He is adept at finding information via online wikis, Internet and Google searches, encyclopedias, and the library catalogue. This year Elijah continue to focus on linguistics, constructed languages, writing systems, and foreign languages. He was mentored by both armchair and professional linguists via online conversations on the web forum Reddit. E reading to his sibling. E reading to his sibling. E reviewing commas and "its" vs "it's" Mathematics: Elijah continued to practice and gain skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, ...

Not Back To School (September 1st - September 8th, 2013)

So, it might seem as though we have dropped off the face of the Earth or that we "took a Summer Break", but neither is the case. Before I go any farther, I never intended for this blog to be editorial or contemplative, just archival, but I feel like I want, nay, need to say some things. One of my friends, a mother of a toddler, who is considering home/unschooling her child and who was homeschooled herself, asked me the other day, "So, do you, like, give E a break during the Summer or is it just all the time?" I believe I've quoted her fairly well (or at least the general idea of what she said). I know (and some of you know) that people who ask questions like this have not really grasped the concept of unschooling, but that's okay: I love my friend. I just said, "No, we just do our thing, living life, all of the time." What I *do* mind isn't innocent questions from friends, but keeping track of what we do. It's no secret that I abhor a...

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