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December 6th, 2010 (as a list of links)

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.

October 26th, 2010

*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

October 10, 2010

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

October 09, 2010

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

October 04, 2010

Made up a 'rave song' with each of us having a part (kind of 'round-robin' style). Homestar Runner Wiki Drawing cartoons clapper board Pencilmation.com Flash Games - online YouTube.com - "Let's Play" videos Helped William pick out fonts.

October 03, 2010

Billy & Mandy Chowder YouTube.com - Lego stop-motion playlist Blocks - with River - series of towers and castles to be destroyed by various vehicles! Activity Binder - helped organize, hole punch and add things to a binder of "activity pages"

October 01, 2010

Choose Your Own Adventure # Choose Your Own Adventure # Drawing pen & paper games labelled diagram of Nintendo DS "Let's Play" videos on YouTube.com Flash games on Nitrome.com

September 21, 2010

Free Draw - http://www.nickjr.com/games/nick-jr-free-draw.jhtml Jackson Pollock - http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ http://www.crayola.com/coloring_application/index.cfm Wario Ware D.I.Y. (DS) - Level programming, design and creation Drawing - free drawing pictures - pencil, marker and paper Stick Friends - craft stick puppets State flags: Oklahoma & Pennsylvania - state flag poster Dancing - Freestyle dancing around the house Dice made up a game using number dice added up all the sides of a standard 6-sided die and found that they equal 21 made a graph to chart correct guesses of which color a color dot die had landed on after each roll for 2 dozen rolls. Tony-b Machine 3 - http://www.tony-b.org/ make your own music and record your finished tracks as well as programme your beats, patterns and melodies. State Flag - State flag poster The Celery Stalks At Midnight - book

2010-2011 Log of Books and Materials

Reading & Research Books: Adventures of Captain Underpants, Volumes 1-8 (Pilkey) Calvin and Hobbes: Revenge of the Babysat (Watterson) Calvin and Hobbes: Weirdos From Another Planet (Watterson) Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Adventure The Celery Stalks At Midnight The Essential Calvin and Hobbes Choose Your Own Adventure # Choose Your Own Adventure # Magazines: Game Informer Lego Club Ranger Rick Ranger Rick: Just For Fun Ask Cricket Reference/Text Books & Materials: Movies: Ghostbusters Ghostbusters II Television Series/Specials: Angry Beavers Adventure Time Ed, Edd & Eddy The Real Ghostbusters Spongebob Squarepants Invader Zim Mythbusters The Fairly Odd Parents Dexter's Lab Online/Computer Games: Various Flash Animation Games City of Heroes City of Villains Electric Box Scratch (Programming Language System from MIT) Board/Table Games: Various Self-designed Games Dice Games Word Pirates Bananagrams Bug Wars Rush Hour Video Games: Scribblenauts - DS WarioWare D.I.Y. - DS T

Unschooling Journal 2010-2011

Date Started: September 21st, 2010 Date Ended: June 30th, 2011 (regular 'school year' will begin July 1st & end June 30th) Subjects Journalled: Maths English (Reading & Research, Writing & Spelling) PA History US History Health & Physical Education Music Art Science Geography Civics Safety (Safety and Fire Prevention) Community & Socialization Log of Books & Materials Field Trips Attendance