After the eventuality had sunk in somewhat, we began our long trek through the jungle of to-do's. Everyday found our house slightly altered: another moving box erected, a piece of furniture gone. Every week there are appointments to be kept, phone calls to be made: property management company, shipping company, landscaper, general contractor, potential buyers of this-and-that. At first, I tried maintaining some semblance of normalcy so far as our homeschool was concerned. Then, as the timer started ticking louder, it was no longer possible to homeschool for six hours and still get all the other chores done each day.
So, here begins a new chapter in our homeschool odyssey: an experiment on autopiloting. I had almost titled this blog "Experiment in Unschooling" until I realized we are not "unschooling". The children still, for the most part, keep a schedule of schoolwork to do. Only I have very little involvement in them. Poly will manage his own schedule entirely, while Chee-Chee will lope along doing whatever he can get done on his own. Most importantly, I have decided we will make these months special and take advantage of all that our locality has to offer: museums, zoos, nature history, etc. We will take as many field trips as possible. We will open wide our gaping mouths and swallow up the abundance of everything that is California. I've started a list of things-to-do before leaving California. Here's a current sample:
- Underground cave
- Whale watching
- As many zoos as possible
- Palace of the Legion of Honor
- Yosemite
- Getty Center
- LA Natural History Museum
- La Brea Tar Pit
- Berkeley Campus, including Natural History Museum of Paleontology
- Stanford Cantor Center
- Hearst Castle
- Alcatraz
- Muir Woods and Stinson beach
Stayed tuned to this blog as I will bring updates and photographs of the destinations we end up visiting.
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I think this is so good for you and the boys. I'm glad you're having fun with it.
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