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Unschooling: Our July 2017 adventures
In Pennsylvania, we can start counting our “days” of learning toward our 180-day-per-year requirement effective July 1. Doing that, we’re usually “done” for the year by early to mid-April, and then...
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The unschooled version of an 12th-grade-ish curriculum plan for 2017-18
We’ve spent the past couple of weeks inundated with back-to-school photos from friends across the country on Facebook, but for a “living is learning” family like us, there’s nothing special about this...
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Unschooling: Our August 2017 adventures
Do you know what August means? It means I got to start my new planner! Yes, I’m a planner junkie, and new planner time is like the best part of the year for me. Along with that came some tweaks to how...
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Our unschooling planner system: Documenting relaxed homeschooling
For being part of a family that doesn’t ever need to go back-to-school shopping, I LOVE school and office supplies. It’s probably not surprising that I’ve been a planner junkie since high school, when...
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A day in the life of unschoolers, 2017 edition
Earlier this month, I shared our “un-curriculum” for the coming year as part of the iHomeschool Network’s Not Back to School Blog Hop. This week, it’s Day-In-The-Life Week, where we’re supposed to show...
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Unschooling: Our March and April 2017 adventures
Our family has been BUSY for the past few months, in many good ways and a few sad ones. This wrapup of March and April will get us caught up on unschooling news through the end of what would be Sarah’s...
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Learning music theory the unschooling way
Sarah, like many 17-year-olds, lives and breathes music. She loves nothing more than popping on her Beats headphones and discovering new favorites or enjoying old ones, singing along, watching music...
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Unschooling: Our May 2017 adventures
Is your family ready for summer yet? While we don’t really have “summer break” because unschooling means our lives flow year-round, we love this season anyway as it seems to give us more ways to spend...
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Unschooling: Our June 2017 adventures
Our unschooling in June 2017 had one huge focus – Shakespeare. But amid a hectic rehearsal schedule and several sold-out performances of The Tempest, we found time to explore some of our local parks,...
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Unschooling: Our July 2017 adventures
In Pennsylvania, we can start counting our “days” of learning toward our 180-day-per-year requirement effective July 1. Doing that, we’re usually “done” for the year by early to mid-April, and then...
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The unschooled version of an 12th-grade-ish curriculum plan for 2017-18
We’ve spent the past couple of weeks inundated with back-to-school photos from friends across the country on Facebook, but for a “living is learning” family like us, there’s nothing special about this...
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Unschooling: Our August 2017 adventures
Do you know what August means? It means I got to start my new planner! Yes, I’m a planner junkie, and new planner time is like the best part of the year for me. Along with that came some tweaks to how...
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Our unschooling planner system: Documenting relaxed homeschooling
For being part of a family that doesn’t ever need to go back-to-school shopping, I LOVE school and office supplies. It’s probably not surprising that I’ve been a planner junkie since high school, when...
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A day in the life of unschoolers, 2017 edition
Earlier this month, I shared our “un-curriculum” for the coming year as part of the iHomeschool Network’s Not Back to School Blog Hop. This week, it’s Day-In-The-Life Week, where we’re supposed to show...
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Some thoughts on heroes after meeting Norman Reedus
Do you have a hero? Sarah does. It’s this dude, who (in case you’re not into zombies and motorcycles) is Norman Reedus: Sarah Otto and Norman Reedus, Oct. 1, 2017 (photo edit by Sarah,...
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Unschooling: Our September 2017 adventures
Wow. September was kind of a whirlwind for us. Sarah started her performances for one play, ramped up her practice for another, and found out that she was going to get to meet her hero, Norman Reedus,...
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We bought a cemetery! (Or, welcome to the world of model trains)
A little more than a month ago, I got a text message from Sarah, who was out with her dad, Chris. “We bought a cemetery,” it said. “Um?” I said. Well, it turns out that in good news, we are not the...
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Unschooling: Our October 2017 adventures
October… went fast. And also seems like it was like, a year ago, now that I’m finishing this post in mid-November. How is it almost Thanksgiving, and thus almost Christmas, and thus almost 2018? I...
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Focusing on gratitude with a Good Things Jar
What does it mean to be really grateful? For me, gratitude starts with recognizing the good things that happen every day. Sometimes these are big things – like a great vacation. But it’s just as often...
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Unschooling: Our November 2017 adventures
Happy December. If you celebrate Christmas, it is now only days away. What?! Whoa. We’ll be spending Christmas day at home as a family, then the next day, Dan, Sarah and I leave to drive to Arizona to...
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