Independent Community Freeschool

Watched Netflix - Mythbusters, Beyblade, Eureka, Futurama, Destroy Build Destroy, Pair of Kings and Star Trek: The Next Generation YouTube - Nerd(3) videos and Total Biscuit videos, Let's Play videos - Trowlr: Bury My Heart at Trowlr Mountain, ViViD, and Trilby: The Art of Theft Web Series - Crash Course, YogsCast and YogLabs Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie (on the big screen) Played 3DS - Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion, Scribblenauts Unlimited, WarioWare D.I.Y., and Denpa Men 2 PS3 - Terraria, Little Big Planet 2 (LBP2), and Little Big Planet Karting (LBPK) WiiU - New Super Mario Bros. U iPad - Terraria, Bad Piggies, Slice It, The Sandbox, Paint with Time, Whizzball, and Fill the Pot Computer - Minecraft Table Top - Mine Shift, Castle Keep, Cthulhu Fluxx, and Family Fluxx Read Magazines - NatGeo Kids and GameInformer Putting Time in Perspective Researched Geologic Eons, eras, periods, and years Pi Nucleus and Periodic Table via Crash Cour...

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...