Independent Community Freeschool

Watched Let's Play videos - Minecraft, Portal, Portal 2, Jelly Escape, Happy Wheels, and Mario ROM hacks - YouTube Electric Company - Netflix Jimmy Two Shoes - YouTube Yogscast - Minecraft Mods - YouTube Psych - Netflix The Suite Life of Zack and Cody - Netflix Mythbusters - Netflix Various YouTube videos Cake Boss - Netflix Sgt. Frog - Netflix The Garfield Show - Netflix Warehouse 13 - Netflix How to Train Your Dragon - Movie - Netflix A Town Called Panic - Movie - Netflix The Troop - Netflix My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Movie - Netflix Jr. Detective Agency - Movie - Netflix Angel Beats - Netflix Beakman's World - Netflix T.U.F.F. Puppy - Netflix World of Quest - Netflix Various Community-made short films on Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Alphas - Netflix Futurama - Netflix Shrek Forever After - Movie - Hotel TV Adventure Time - Hotel TV Storage Wars - Hotel TV George Lopez Show - Hotel TV Jeopardy - Hotel TV Regular Show - Hotel TV Level Up

A sampling of the stuff we've been up to over the last 8 weeks. Watched Let's Play videos - The Binding of Isaac, Portal & Minecraft - YouTube Yogscast & Yogscast - YouTube Mythbusters - Netflix Psych - Netflix Wizards of Waverly Place - Netflix House of Anubis - Netflix, Amazon Prime America's Funniest Home Videos - Netflix VlogBrothers videos - Jokes , Jokes and more Jokes - YouTube CrashCourse - Taxonomy - YouTube The Minutemen - Movie - Netflix X-Men Animated Series - Netflix Brave - Movie - AMC Theatre GLaDOS Siri video - YouTube Futurama - Netflix Word Girl - Netflix True Jackson VP - Netflix The Electric Company - Netflix Played Lego Little Big Planet 2 (LBP2) - PS3 Minecraft - Computer, iPad Spongbob Diner Dash - iPad Horseshoes - Lawn game Binding of Isaac - Steam Rush Hour - Puzzle board game Various Online Games (mostly Flash based) - Online Roblox -Online Wingeria - Online Contour Game - Online Bingo - Board gam

Watched Let's Play videos - YouTube.com House of Anubis - Nickelodeon The Avengers - movie Special Effects videos - YouTube.com Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - CartoonNetwork.com Battleship - movie Mythbusters - Netflix America's Funniest Videos - Netflix MAD TV - Netflix Super Mario mod videos - YouTube.com Cake - Netflix Sgt. Frog - Netflix Skunk Fu - Netflix Reaper - Netflix A.N.T. Farm - Netflix House of Anubis - Netflix Played Nitrome.com games Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Lego Wii Sports - Wii Homemade Lego board game - board game Dominoes w/ Michele - game Mine Shift w/ Bethany - tile-based board game Rory's Story Cubes - story dice game Angry Birds - iPad App Doodle Train - iPad App Various Online Games - Internet Minecraft - Computer Read/Researched/ Discussed Valve Employee Handbook ( would be a fantastic place to work! ) Ranger Rick Magazine National Geographic Kids Magazine Homophone, Homonyms et al

Watched The Troop - Netflix Sgt. Frog - Netflix Let's Play Minecraft videos by YogCast - YouTube Spotlight Vlogcast by Indie Statik - YouTube Jimmy Two-Shoes - YouTube Soul Eater (an anime) - Netflix Played Minecraft - Computer Plants vs. Zombies - Computer Peggle - Computer Bejeweled 2 - Computer Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Various physics based games on physicsgames.com - Online Equate - Board Game Lego: Ninjago - Board Game Lego: Creationary - Board Game ModNation Racing - PS3 Castle Keep - Tile-based Board Game E playing Lego: Creationary Read/Researched What does 'linguistics' mean? Ranger Rick Magazine Lego Club Magazine Hanna Andersson Catalogue What do 'elijah', 'uriel' and 'parham' mean? Discussed Why do they call studying languages linguistics? Wrote Words to a song about a gamer nerd Labelled bags for our bulk food purchases at the food co-op Wrote & illustrated instructions to Spin-Jisto, a made up game

So, it's time to play catch up, somewhat. I've got a new laptop, so I can actually type up things, unlike with the iPad! Here's a little bit of what we've been up to since mid February until now. Watched Let's Play videos (Minecraft, et al.) Vi Hart videos Netflix (various animated children's cartoons) Psych Monk Animated Ghostbusters Mythbusters Skunk Ninja iCarly Tin Tin (series) Robocop - Movie Played WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Minecraft - iPad and Computer Physicsgames.com - online Mine Shift - Tile-based board game Angry Birds - iPad Fruit Ninja - iPad Rory's Story Cubes - Dice-based story game Lego Creationary - iPad Whizzball - iPad Doodle Find - iPad Tamagotchi Connection 2 - 3DS Carcassonne - Tile-based board game Bingo - Board game Peggle - Computer Iggle Pop - Computer Plants vs. Zombies - Computer Minesweeper - Computer Various logic-based games - iPad Wand Charades Word With Friends (wit

Watch Let's Play videos Rounding Numbers - BrainPOP Money - BrainPOP Sgt. Frog Pucca Beatles - BrainPOP Adventure Time Carbon Dating - BrainPOP Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 (w/ M & W) WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Farkle - iPad (w/ M) Read/Research "Poon Trees" (Calophyllum) MadLibs Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2 Rodrick Rules Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3 The Last Straw Discuss How ball point pens work Hyperthermia Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Occupy Pittsburgh (OccupyPgh) 1% vs. 99% Racial inequality in social movements like OccupyPgh & the world in general Fashion Looking Like Awesome Write MadLibs Newspaper Story Listen Voice recordings Create Voice recordings MadLibs w/ W Newspaper w/ W Buttered Toast Little Big Planet 2 level design WarioWare D.I.Y. microgames Illustrated story (marker on paper) Go/Community Burger King Starbucks Burgatory Barnes & Noble Bookstore Java House Trader Joe's East End Food Co-op Heal

Watch Spy Kids - movie Wizards of Waxerly Place Sgt. Frog Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide New Electric Company iCarly Beakman's World Let's Play videos Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 (w/ W) Quoridor - board game (w/ W & M) Various online flash games Read/Research Ranger Rick Magazine ASK! Magazine Discuss Apple sauce, apple juice, cider & hard cider Write 'Crime Report' Listen Joker by Steve Miller Band Various music - Pandora Radio Ambient music - Pandora Radio History of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics (watch this, it's good!) Create Little Big Planet 2 level designs A fake crime report & weather report (complete w/ recorded sound effects) Noodle Bowl Soup Go/Community Oh Yeah! Ice Cream & Waffle Shoppe D's Six Pax & Dogz Visited w/ neighbor Amelia Health/PE/Safety Playing in the rain Helped make grocery list Other Rearranged media center in front room

Watch Dude, What Would Happen? Let's Play videos - Minecraft Adventure Time Drake and Josh Pucca The New Adventures of Nanoboy Homestar Runner iCarly Cyberchase The New Electric Company Wizards of Waverly Place Futurama Play Pencil Kids Games - online Farkle w/ M - iPad Scrabble w/ M (beat M) - iPad Electric Box 2 - online Nitrome.com games - online Various online flash games Lego Pirates of The Caribean - 3DS Lego Homemade Board Games Cooking Mama - 3DS Civiballs - online Powder Game - online Scribblenaughts - 3DS WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Candy Land States & Capitals Puzzle Blocks & Ball Run Read/Research Lego Catalog 3 Laws of Robotics Newspaper GameInformer Magazine Discuss Realities of our family food budget Pricing strategies for E's business W explained to E the circuitry of a contact microphone power supply/amp Why the 1st letters of most words in a show/episode title are capitalized Flooding in Pennsylvania Why cacti

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 (radi

Watch Time lapsed Minecraft videos Let's Play videos New Vi Hart Mirrormask - movie Powerpuff Girls Homestar Runner Adventure Time Spy vs. Spy Johnny Test iCarly Wizards of Waverly Place Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Nameits Pictionary Papa's Burgeria - online Made up maths game w/ dice (adding & subtracting) Playmobile Knights - 3DS Read/Research Ranger Rick magazine Katydids here & here Google Translate - Chinese, Turkish & Czech E w/ katydid Discuss Calendars & number of days in a month Anger & what to do about it Commenting in online forums The difference between muffins, English muffins & crumpets Write Brain teasers Create Maths game w/ dice Designed levels for LBP2 Graffiti Can - iPad Scratch Programming Voice recordings & remixing Miis - 3DS Puppets & a puppet show Water molecule (paper & craft sticks) Robot dinosaur gets defeated by bomb-toting superhero Listen Radio

Watch Homestar Runner Synesthesia video Let's Play videos Cartoon Network Powerpuff Girls The Fairly Odd Parents Adventure Time Dude What Would Happen? Adventure Time Stop Motion Pedestrian Pinball Pulse TV Play Physicsgames.net Various online games ModNation Racers Little Big Planet 2 w/ W & cooperative play via PSN Scrabble w/ M - iPad 'Aliens' wins the game Create/Make/Program ModNation Racers Levels Little Big Planet 2 Levels Page of Wikis & Guides on blog (helped M) Art Drew pictures of the Powerpuff Girls Drew signs for Sunshine Cleaning Company (a company E invented) Spray painting - iPad Read/Research LEGO Builder forum Adventure Time Wiki Stephen Fry's Language Typography video (must see) Silly Signs - book Discussed - Roman numerals & the terms 'detour' & 'prosecute' Google Translate - various languages The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future - book S

Watch Science Nation video - sun spots Adventure Time Mythbusters Let's Play videos Spongebob Fairly Odd Parents Obsessives: Soda Pop Dude What Would Happen? Lego stop motion videos The Super Mario Bros. Super Show Play Doodle Train - iPad Aqueduct 101 - online Pirate Ship Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Various other online games Sand Test Hangman w/ W - iPad Atari Greatest Hits - iPad Make/Do/Art Scratch programming Made a movie about a super hero Drawing Pictures in Photobooth - iPad E doing Edvard Munch's "The Scream" Go/Community Claire visits 1hr Brighton Heights Coffee Shop (Java N Cream) w/ Gyres 1.5hrs Burger King Sushi Tomo Human Motion Center - M's physical therapy Dr. Altman's Office - M's x-rays & check up Music Singing Fingers - iPad Bobby McFerrin Pentatonic Scale video Science NPR: Science Friday (July 22nd) - Exploring The Wild Life of Our Bodies - Yes, We Do Have Bananas, For N

Watch Let's Play videos The Fairly Odd Parents Adventure Time Dude What Would Happen? Hackers (movie) MST3K: The Star Fighters MST3K: The Giant Gila Monster Invader Zim Phineas and Ferb Super Why?: Humpty Dumpty and Other Fairytale Adventures Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Little Big Planet 1 - PS3 Balance - online Sand Test - online Droplets -iPad Slice It -iPad Doodle Bowl - iPad Crazy Electric - iPad Whizzball - iPad Nitrome.com Lazylaces.com Scrabble - iPad (beat M) Painting Doors - online 7 Words - iPad Electric Box - iPad Plumbers 2 - online Doodle Train - iPad Finger Block - iPad Doodle Bowling - iPad Read/Research Lego Catalog Mod Nation Racers blog post & links New X Men 1 & 2 Bartleby's Button Book - iPad Ask! Magazine Choose Your Own Adventure #1 The Circus Choose Your Own Adventure #3 Sunken Treasure Lego Club Magazine What are 'synonyms' ? Write Notebook 'chat' w/ M 'to-do' li

Watch Lego Stop Motion videos Stick Person Animation videos Homestarrunner.com Regular Show cartonnetwork.com Let's Play videos - Minecraft Lego Building Instruction videos Cartoonnetwork.com - Adventure Time & Regular Show Dirty Jobs Shark Week Invader Zim Shrek New Adventures of Scooby Doo Play Farkle - iPad Little Big Planet - PSP Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Tamagotchi Connection Corner 2 - DS homestarrunner.com Whizzball - iPad Nitrome.com WarioWare D.I.Y. - DS Lego Batman - DS Super Scribblenauts - DS I Spy (card game) Art Mandala creation program - iPad Math Tangrams - iPad Nim - iPad Farkle - iPad Heath/PE Outside play Food prep Helped make grocery list Read/Research Google Translate - translating Russian and Czech for gaming Homestar Runner wikiguide Duncan yo-yo special moves book Go/Community Human Motion Center - M's physical therapy Dr. Dan Altman's Office - M's follow up appointment Other Elijah's Godf

Watch Vi Hart videos Let's Play videos - Scribblenauts, Minecraft, Super Paper Mario Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends Adventure Time Homestarrunner.com BrainPop.com - Digestive System, Vaccines & Mars Mysterious Cities of Gold The Amazing World of Gumball Mythbusters Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 The Hacker - online Homestarrunner.com games Spite Cannon 2 - online WarioWare D.I.Y. - Wii & DS Legos Various flash games Various iPad games Physicsgames.net Make Made a movie Level designs in Little Big Planet 2 Write Letter to William on computer Go/Community Mad Mex Sarah, Ernesto & Azrael visit (3hrs) James visits & cleans (2hrs) Dr. Altman's office (M's 2wk post-op appt) Burger King Jill visits & drops off books (1hr) Erika visits (1hr) Sushi Tomo Human Motion Center (M's physical therapy)

Well, as you can plainly see, this blog has been severely neglected. But, that doesn't mean that we haven't been doing things! Here's a recap of the last couple days. Watch "Let's Play" videos - YouTube.com Pi is (still) Wrong Vi Hart videos - Vi Hart The Sound of Pi Math Doodles a la Vi Daily Doodles 09.10.09 Math Class Doodler Julie The Doodler videos - YouTube.com Pi Draw/Write/Art 'Adventure' Stories - pen & paper Screw Portraits The Book Surgeon Play Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Powder Game - OL Super Scribblenauts - DS Read ASK Magazine Game Informer Magazine Lego Club Magazine Do/Projects Helped put together blog post on Uriel Fury for Pi Day Conversations/Research What does 'anachronism' mean?  Why is Wednesday called Wednesday? (What about the other days of the week? And the months too?) Pi One Million Digits of Pi Functions Discontinuity Is 'appreciate' from another language? (Wh

Mathematical Doodling What is a Frock?  What is a Cerberus?       Ladon?      Sphinx?      Nemean Lion?      Chimera?      Lemaean Hydra? How do you spell "community"? Cartoon Network videos  We're leaving for Chicago tomorrow night at midnight and will return early in the morning on Monday, December 13th, 2010 -- should have lots to report on once we return.

*playing some catch-up from the last 16 days Watch YouTube.com - "Let's Play" videos for "Little Big Planet", "Scribblenauts" & "Super Scribblenauts YouTube.com - "Robot Boy" Cartoon Network - "Adventure Time", "Chowder" & "Scooby Doo" Draw/Write Comics using stickers, markers & pens Stories & notes using stickers, markers & pens Creating/Designing 'characters' for use in games - pen & paper stripgenerator.com - Comic Strips Build - Towers & Farms w/ River Gyre using blocks Play Potato Head w/ River Gyre Super Scribblenauts - DS Scribblenauts - DS WarioWare D.I.Y. - DS Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii Various Gameboy Advance games via Jason Wagner (Rachel's boyfriend) Various online flash games from nitrome.com & addictinggames.com Read Captain Underpants Calvin & Hobbes ASK Magazine Lego Catalog Do "stuff to do" binder Cap

Watch - Sushi Pack via KidMango & YouTube.com Play - Bug Wars - board game Build - building houses w/ wooden blocks Draw comics using markers, pen & stickers pictures using Egyptian stencils & markers Sat w/ M! & did about 8 pages in the "STUFF to do" binder Research - "violet", "ultraviolet" & "Wharf" on Wikipedia.com

Write - a "choose your own adventure" book Draw a comic book about a cockroach series of comics & pictures using stickers & markers Watch YouTube.com - "Let's Play" videos Watched Sushi Pack via KidMango Research - John Lennon's birthday Listen - "Imagine" by John Lennon Read The Adventures of Captain Underpants vol. 4 - comic DK Minifigure Ultimate Sticker Collection - book Build - Lego w/ River Gyre at the Gyres' house Play - WarioWare D.I.Y. - DS