Our exhilarating unschool!

Spending time with my siblings is good for the mind, and for me that's unschool. Everyone should try out home schooling better yet unschooling. What is unschooling you may ask? Unschooling is like a cup of life! Unschooling... is Awesome! Unschooling is DA-bomb, I get to choose what I want to learn, and when I want to learn it. Unschool should be called life school, because I get to learn how to cook, how to blog, how to do Algebra, how to keep a clean house, how to farm (town). I love going to the Library and spending hours having fun reading and choosing videos. I get to choose whatever I please, and learn anything I like, and have fun with it. Oh Yeah!

When I was in public school, I hated it. I did not like being away from my family, and I was bored, because I was too smart for the class. My mom had home schooled me for sometime before that, so it was a real punch in the mouth going to public school. I was bullied with words by others, but I didn't take it as an insult, because I was strong and YHVH was with me, even when my family was at home.

Home School, doesn't suck that much! Because I sit at the table with my family doing book work, and learning things like cursive and English. It's good doing book work, but it's better doing unschool because I learn way more things then I used to learn just out of textbooks. Like how to write a check. My siblings and I recently purchased a huge LEGO ship from a friend. And I wanted to know how checks worked since my mom was going to write a check for the ship. So she drew a huge check on the black board in the kitchen, and taught me all about checks and the banking system. I can now tell you all about checks and how they work, if you ask me, and I'm only 11. My mom says she didn't learn about checks until she had a checking account!

So, I hope you learn something new from this blog.

Sincerely,
Camren

Farmtown for learning?

This might come as a shock to some, but I am advocating that everyone figure out a way for their children to play Farmtown. For those who haven't heard of it, Farmtown is an interactive game that you can play from Facebook. At first I refused to even look at it, figuring it was stupid and that I would be wasting my time, but now that I have played for awhile and allowed my older children to play for a few days I gotta say Wow, what a learning game.

Not only do they learn about farming (yes a simple form to be sure) but they also learn about money (saving and spending), you have an opportunity to work for other farmers, and hire others to work your farms. They get a chance to work on their spelling and typing skills, as they chat with friends and family, and send and receive gifts. All in all I love it, and so do the kids. It really warms my heart to see them working to save enough money to buy a barn, or animal they really want, because I know that in a limited budget household like ours, they wont get very many opportunities to work with money in real life, so I am super glad that I can give them this chance to practice these important skills.

And for those who are unfamilluar woith facebook, it is a social netwqorking site that you can connect with friends and family. Unlike myspace it seems relatively innocent, and you can be sure to only have family and friends on your friends list. Strangers hardly ever ask to be friends with you, usually only if you are in a group (home schoolers, ER fans .....) together.