Cool week!

This week was supposed to be SCIENCE WEEK...but in true unschooling form...other things took our attention but I still say it was an awesome week. What I tend to do with my daughter, Qwyn, is introduce her to various things and if she is game we run with it...if I get the "meh" response then I pull back and let it go...and at least I put it out there. Qwyn is a naturally curious kid...yes I know most kids are...but she likes to look up things on her IPhone and then randomly share what she's learned in some conversation along the way(could be 1 day later or months). But there are days when I want to see if we can do some learning together and I can appease my inner guilt that she should be doing something "schooly" on a daily. This is how we came up with SCIENCE WEEK. Lol. So I am always on Pintrest (http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=53612) and found this cool pin for fun science experiments that could be done with things you already have in your house. I presented the link to Qwyn and asked if there was anything she wanted to try...she came up with 7: Rock Candy (what kid passes up the opportunity to make camdy), Magic Plastic Bag, Gummy Bear Torture (do you see the theme here), Ivory Soap Monstor, Walking on Eggs(can't wait to do this one), Dancing Oobleck, Chain Reaction(involves wood sticks and building...love it already). So far we only did the rock candy which she said is growing daily (she is even doing a log!!!) and she did the Magic Plastic Bag which was fun and it was funny to see Qwyn challenge herself and add more skewers. The rest of them we might continue next week but we are off to a great start...more than we did last year. It was fun doing things with Qwyn this week especially with hubby in tow. We have a friend who is a performer who is willing to work with Qwyn on vocals, performing and piano and we all met with him yesterday for preliminary work. Hubby and I were in awe of how much Qwyn knew about music theory and she was able to follow him and he was amazed at how fast she was able to pick up. Many know that Qwyn is a songwriter and singer and he is going to help her fine tune thinga even though he said there wasn't much to do. He is going her help her learn how to transition her songs from guitar to piano as well as learn how to improvise on piano. He even invited her to come and practice with his band. Opportunities like this are wonderful and she loves it. She was so excited she actually played her guitar all the way home...in the car. I'll attach the video of a cover song called 20 Years by Bad Suns. This is why we unschool...she NEVER plays her guitar in the car. We turned off the radio and just let her go at it.  Our day and week ended with us exploring and learning how to Geocache. Boy did we learn many things during our very 1st two cache searches. 1. Make sure your phone is charged if you are going to use it as a GPS. 2. Qwyn only tolerates one search then you have to feed her. 3. If you don't find the next quickly enough, Qwyn will get totally bored and lay down in the middle of a baseball field and let her parents run around looking (will explain in a future blog) 4. Geocaching is addictive. Overall, we had a week of cool adventures and  learning...for all of us. 

MAGIC PLASTIC BAG

Rock Candy