Substance, October 3

Pages 117-119 of The Big Book of Unschooling. What is the subtance of learning? of unschooling? What makes something "substantial"?

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We have a compost pile, and it's kind of amazing how it seems at first that the food and leaves and sticks and banana peels and dog poop will never do anything but sit there looking like garbage, but when I stop watching it, it turns to solid black, rich dirt! I can't find any parts of the elements of which it's made. It's kind of like that with my kids. It took me a few years to quit watching them and trust that it would compost.

It did.

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CONNECTIONS: Today's chat

http://chatnotes-unschooling.blogspot.com/2012/09/september-26-connections.html

On my site, since I last wrote, are three new things on connections. Two at the bottom of this http://sandradodd.com/connections/example.html
and one halfway down here: http://sandradodd.com/connections/

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September 26, CONNECTIONS

Connections, pages 113-116 (or if you don't have a copy of The Big Book of Unschooling, read at SandraDodd.com/connections

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Chat on methodology, September 19

Pages 109-112 in The Big Book of Unschooling cover Methods (and what sort of method of homeschooling Unschooling is), the curriculum of unschooling, and learning-not-teaching.

This stuff is easy for those who have been reading and writing about unschooling for a while. Because it's not easy for others to understand, if you're new it will help you to be in the chat, and if you're not new, you can practice answering questions clearly on the spot!

Clarifying thought, it turns, out, is what unschooling is all about, for the parents.
When the parents are clear, then learning can flow around them.

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Mathematics (don't be afraid) September 12

I just got an e-mail that said, "I'll be able to attend the chat—it'll be really interesting for me, because numbers aren't my "thing". ;)"

That's fine, because the last thing I wrote in last week's chat was "Let's talk about games and logic and patterns"

Wednesday, September 12, regular time and place.

In the book the math section is pages 105-108. You might read at http://sandradodd.com/math, and maybe at the multiple intelligences page (sandradodd.com/intelligences) or just think (or ask friends or neighbors, spouse or children), about things that are mathematical that don't involve numbers. Think "visual" (kind of the same as thinking visually, perhaps, or not). If come up with something good, please try to find a link or a photo to bring to the chat. We can collect some examples. :-)

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Shakespeare. Anything fun? Anything easy? Worth looking into? What?

In The Big Book of Unschooling, pages 102-104 or on the website: http://sandradodd.com/strew/shakespeare

http://sandradodd.com/shakespeare/ (The part near Lawrence Fishburne is what's in the book on page 102 anyway.)

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