September 9th - September 29th, 2013

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 Course

Discussed
Pi
Friday the 13th
Triskaidekaphobia
Chiropractic care
Massage therapy
Muscles, fascia, and 'knots'

Wrote
Notes, plans, and schematics

Listened
NPR: Science Friday (09.13.13)

Created/Built
LBP2/LBPK - level designs and creation

MC - created game called MineFort

Went/Community
Java House
Eat N Park
AMC Lowe's 22 Theatre
Whole Foods
The Priory Inn
Sushi Tomo
Game Stop
Spak Brothers

Health/PE/Safety
Looked at bento ideas on Pinterest
Hurt ankle; home visit from chiropractor & massage therapist

Other
Celebrated 10th birthday!
Paternal grandparents visited Pittsburgh to celebrate birthday

Quotable
E: mum, is this a plate of tater tots?
M: you complaining?
E: no, but I might be questioning your parenting!
M: I love you too.

Overheard while playing Cthulhu Fluxx: "Hurry the Fluxx up!"

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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