Unconventional unschooling

This is what it looks like when your kids are in a conspiracy. ;-) My kids are here learning Cantonese together. Surprisingly, all my kids have a real interest. So, I just speak it to them, play chinese games, read chinese books to them, rhymes and motions, and songs. If my hubby could speak it more regularly to me, it'd be better but I am not complaining. :)

My kids watching how tortillas were made at Rosa's. They stood there for 10 minutes and did not want to eat. Fine with me. My hubby and I had a 10 minute date hehe.

My older two were doing these lists while I slept in one morning after I gave them bananas. I know, very bad mother. But I was feeling nauseous. Pregnant? Maybe? LOL Anyway back to the lists. Left is my detail oriented first born. She listed 26 to dos.Right is my fun and games middle born. He listed, as you can see, 4 things to do. I just thought this was hilarious!



I love how they are so different. I love how God made them strong and weak in different areas. May they always do everything to the glory of our God.

Field trip? huh?

We go to the museum regularly so that's not a field trip. Actually we don't call trips field trip. We just call it, mommy wants to go somewhere, wanna come with? LOL

This was in the beginning of Nov. Yes I am still very behind on all my pictures. They just keep piling up!

We learned a lot that day. We went to the Greek festival, train show, a craft show, and the science museum that day. One word: Daddy was out of town. HA! 

naked egg

I'll try to post more of what our days are like in our unschooling adventures. Too many pictures, I realized I am very behind... But here's our lesson on osmosis and reverse osmosis!

We started our experiment with two raw eggs. Egg A and Egg B. Both were dropped into a cup full of white vinegar. As the calcium carbonate dissolved away, both eggs were left "naked" in their outer membranes. Osmosis already occurs with the vinegar because most of vinegar is made of water. The water made its way into the eggs and made the eggs huge. That was not enough though. We had to make the most out of them!

EGG A. To further demonstrate osmosis, we poured out the vinegar and put it in red food coloring.

My kids loved the red egg LOL. We decided to see if osmosis indeed made the egg red outside and inside. So we boiled it ;) and dissected it. We even have a video! The egg was so full of water, the egg white never became completely solid, but you can see, it's pink! The yolk maybe was too dense for the little red coloring we put in so it stayed yellow. 

EGG B To learn more about osmosis, we put egg B into syrup. The syrup made it possible to show the kids reverse osmosis by taking water out from the huge egg! It shrank and was not able to bounce. 

That was fun, but we had to put it back in the water and blow it up with osmosis again!!! So we did. Look! hahahaha When we broke the outer membrane, water just came gushing out. One peculiar thing we discovered what that the yolk, even though we had not cooked it, was solid. Texture was of a gummi bear.

 Here's an extra video of the bouncy naked egg A.

Changing the education paradigm

It was good till he quoted something about how we are risen apes LOL

 

 All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. - Benjamin Franklin