Independent Community Freeschool

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, ...

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...

**I couldn't finish the last update before we went out of town, so I just extended it to after we got back home for our Pacific Northwest Adventure!** Watched Netflix - Ed, Edd, Eddy; MAD, Futurama, iCarly, Psych, Prototype This, Camp Lazlo!, ParaNorman (movie), WordGirl, Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, Dexter's Laboratory, Bones, SquidGirl, Scooby Doo, Soul Eater, Radio Rebel (movie), World of Quest, Destroy Build Destroy, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Problem Solverz, Regular Show, Powerpuff Girls, Dude What Would Happen?, Hoodwinked 2 (movie), Generator Rex, Suite Life on Deck, A.N.T. Farm, Beakman's World, Cowder, Johnny Test, Amazing World of Gumball, Regular Show, Mythbusters YouTube - Aperture R & D, Homestar Runner/Strongbad Emails, Minecraft MODs, Peanut Butter Gamer, CupQuake, Press Heart to Continue, Minecraft Tutorial: Survive and Thrive II Let's Play videos - Crashtastic, Castlevania, Castlevania II, Starseed Pilgrim, Happy Wheels, Wes...

Watched Netflix - Comic Book Men, Red Dwarf, Postcards from Buster: The Case of the Coin Purloined (Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri), Contraptus, Quiz Time, and Pair of Kings YouTube - CupQuake videos, Special Effects videos, Minecraft MOD reviews, How to make pound cake in a blender by iJustine, How to create sprites in Scribblenauts Unlimited videos, Vi Hart videos, and Vsauce videos (science playlists) Let's Play videos -Scribblenauts Unlimited, Windosill, The Sims 3, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!, and Crashmo Web Series - Game Theory, Daneboe Hack videos, Hank Plays Games, and Yogscast, Smosh Pit Weekly, VlogBrothers, and Table Top Videos E filmed with camera (Vsauce playlist where Michael explains lots of stuff) Played 3DS - Mutant Mudds, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King..., Pyraminds, Crashmo, Digg Dugg, and Pac Man PS3 - Little Big Planet 2 (LBP2) w/ River iPad - Singing Fingers, Casey's Contraptions, Hangman...

Watched Netflix - Beakman's World, Star Trek: The Original Series, A.N.T. Farm, and Futurama YouTube - An Egg's Guide to Minecraft, Bravest Warriors, SkyDoesMinecraft videos, Yogscast videos, Homestar Runner videos, Yogslab videos, Vi Hart videos, Smosh Pit Weekly, Organic Chemistry (Khan Academy videos), Minecraft creation videos, Minecraft mod reviews videos, and Special effects videos by CorridorDigital. Let's Play Videos - Red Remover, Minecraft, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Happy Wheels, and Portal 2 Clue (1985) at AMC Loews Theatre and Star Wars Episode 2 Played 3DS - Scribblenauts Unlimited, Pokédex, and WarioWare D.I.Y. (DIY) WiiU - Scribblenauts Unlimited and Nintendoland PS3 - Little Big Planet 2 (LBP2) Online - Electric Box 2 Computer - Minecraft (at various times & with Michele, River, and Cian) Read Magazines - GameInformer, NatGeo Kids, Ranger Rick, Ask!, LEGO Club, and Rangefinder Books - SpongeBob Squarepants Survival ...

Watched Netflix- The Garfield Show, Pet Alien, MST3K The Movie (movie), Suite Life on Deck, MythQuest, Suite Life of Zach & Cody, Beakman's World, Psych, Weapon Masters, Eureka, DreamWorks Spooky Stories: 2, Life's Funniest Moments, Gerald McBoing Boing, DC Cupcakes, Ruby Gloom, Torchwood, The Electric Company, Eerie Indiana, Danny Phantom, Video Game High School (movie), Star Trek Enterprise, How Stuff Works, Ghost Hunters International, Alphas, Being Human (US version), Small Soldiers (movie), and Skeleton, Inc. YouTube- Adventure Time, Game Theory videos, Yogscast, Real Life Minecraft, Minecraft Stop Motion Videos, Minecraft Building Tutorials, Literal Trailers for Movies & Video Games, Music videos, Vi Hart videos, Domino Run videos, Kids/Teens/Adults/YouTubers React to Viral Videos, Your Grammar Sucks, Special Effects videos, Jack's Films, and Did You Know Gaming? videos Let's Play videos- Pokémon , The Binding of Isaac, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Min...

Watched Let's Play videos - Portal, Minecraft, Happy Wheels, Scribblenauts Unlimited, PBGamer vids, Tobuscus vids, CupQuake vids, Northernlion vids, and AtomicMari vids - YouTube Psych - Netflix Yogscast & YogsLab - YouTube Various game reviews - YouTube Wreck It Ralph - movie - AMC Loews Theatre iCarly - Netflix CupQuake crafting videos - YouTube Homestarrunner.com Dresden Files - Netflix Prototype This - Netflix My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Netflix Total Drama Island - Netflix Eureka - Netflix Warehouse 13 - Netflix Alphas - Netflix Smash Lab - Netflix The Gumby Show - Netflix Sgt. Frog - Netflix One Way Out - Netflix Life's Funniest Moments - Netflix Smosh Pit Weekly - YouTube Vi Hart videos - YouTube Played WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS Minecraft - Computer Whizzball - Online Contour - Online Steamlands - Online ModNation Racers - PS3 Little Big Planet 2 - PS3 Doodle Screw - iPad LEGO Creationary - iPad Electric Box - iPad Calcul...

Watched Let's Play videos - Basement Collection, Braid, Minecraft, Minecraft Mods, Papa's Tacoria,  - YouTube 2008 Parham Family Slideshow & Music Video - DVD Vi Hart videos - Doodle Music , A Song About a Circle Constant , What's Up with Noises? , and What Was Up with Pythagoras? - YouTube Pucca - Netflix Lore In One Minute videos - YouTube Mythbusters - Netflix Smosh Pit Weekly - YouTube Eureka - Netflix www.homestarrunner.com Dear Dracula - Hotel TV Scooby Doo - Hotel TV Adventure Time - Hotel TV M.A.D. TV - Hotel TV Regular Show - Hotel TV The Troop - Netflix Vlog Brother videos - Top 10 Animal Power Moves - YouTube Terra Nova - Netflix LEGO 365 Slideshow - Blog Lost - Netflix Psych - Netflix Indie Game the Movie - Netflix What's Invisible? More Than You Think - YouTube Played Little Big Planet 2 (LBP2) - PS3 Bad Piggies - KF Minecraft - Computer/iPad TNT Robots - Online Castle Keep - Tile-based Board Game Blocks Skywire VIP Shu...