Submissions for Unschooling Voices

The next edition of Unschooling Voices will be out on April 1st. Please have your submissions in before then so I have time to put it together. Here is the link with all the details. If you’d like to answer the question for the month, you’ll find it at the bottom of that page, along with past editions.I’m enjoying the ones I received so far so keep them coming! This edition was supposed to be out on March...

Girl Scout Cookies

Jacqueline is a 3rd year Brownie (she started as a Daisy) and really enjoys Girl Scouts. She did a couple of cookie booths this year. These pictures were from the last one. That her wonderful troop leader, Sharon. Share ...

Remodeling our master bathroom

We’ve been remodleing our master bathroom for about, oh let’s see, 3 years now. LOL We’re finally making some progress over the last month and it’s been exciting to see the transformation. Billy has tried to do as much of the work as he can himself, to keep the costs down. First, he gutted the bathroom and put up sheetrock. We hired a plumber to install the new tub (it’s the kind with wrap around...

Shawna the Storyteller

If You knew my daughter Shawna when we first adopted her, you would never believe that this was the same child. She’s been part of a storytelling club, sponsored by the Ocala Storytellers Guild, run by a mother and son from our homeschool group. On St. Patricks Day, they told their stories to family, friends and children at the library. Shawna told “The boy who sold the butter”. They were all...

Comic drawning

Our homeschool group offers art classes given by a really nice woman named Jane. Jacqueline enjoys drawing and painting but never expressed an interest in taking a class. When the new schedule came out, one of the classes was comic strip drawing, something Jacqueline recently started doing. She decided to take it and see if she could pick up any pointers. The class consisted of Jacqueline and three other boys from our...

Starting gymnastics

Jacqueline wanted to take some gymnastics classes (actually she wanted basketball but it’s not in session right now) so I signed her up. She’s been practicing her cartwheels all week. I think she’s pretty good at it-better than I could do. LOL Related Tags: gymnastics Share ...

Thoughts on the Dr. Phil show

If you didn’t get a chance to see it, scroll down to the next post watch it.Dayna Martin, who appeared with her family on the show is a member of an unschooling group I belong to. She gave me her permisssion to reprint some of what she posted to our group about the show. My husband and I were guests on the Dr. Phil show. We flew out to Hollywood from New Hampshire to represent Unschoolers on the show. A few days before...

Homeschooling on Dr. Phil:part 1

Homeschooling on Dr. Phil:part 2

Homeschooling on Dr. Phil: part 3