We quickly grew tired of lesson pathways, it felt too clunky and unnatural. We are unschooling now - I strongly feel she learns more and enjoys learning more with this method.
I've been under the weather so I haven't kept up this blog, but I have kept up with logging her schooling. I am going to try to get back into the swing of things.
Today we talked about counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, 100s, millions, and billions.
She got a book out of the library about horses and has been studying the different breeds.
She read "Big Backyard" mostly on her own while we were in the car running errands.
She found a praying mantis and studied it to draw a picture in her nature book.
At the co-op she weighed pears and flax seeds and estimated the cost of each.
Right now she is swimming at a friend's house. In the last 2 or so weeks she's made gigantic strides in swimming, so much so I am considering cancelling her fall swimming lessons. We now have a YMCA membership, so she has had a lot of time in the pool to figure out how to swim.
We talked about budgeting and prioritizing spending. I told her we have a $5 budget per day and we discussed how much a lime slushie costs and if it's worth it. She decided it was. :) Now we can't go to the dollar movie tonight, instead we will stay home and watch Mr. Bean and have popcorn and play Uno. She is OK with this because she made the decision how to spend the money herself.
We discussed budgeting on a national level, how our country as a whole has to budget and prioritize spending.
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