The Wild Cherry Farm
~ Creativity, Seasonal Food and Free Range Learning ~
Last week my history loving son (12) and I finished reading this Marie Curie Biography. The book sparked so many interesting conversations, starting with her childhood in Poland. They weren’t allowed to speak Polish, only Russian, when they were in school, but secretly learned to speak, read and write in Polish and kept their culture …
This morning R (8) woke up with the idea to make a boat from cardboard*. He went straight to work, rummaged through our recycling bin, cut, glued and painted all day until it was done. I love to watch my kids when inspiration hits like that and they are in the flow for hours. ❤️ …
I tried something new and recorded the post for you, if you’d rather listen to the blog post: For the first 10 years or so (it’s hard to define when it began…at birth I suppose) we were Unschoolers and it was exactly the right thing for us. I read everything I could find about Unschooling, …
Writing about Unschooling feels risky and vulnerable. So I want to try it. I will begin with a quote by Joyce Fetteroll: The goal of unschooling is not education. It is to help a child be who she is and blossom into who she will become. Learning happens as a side effect. ~ Joyce Fetteroll …
