Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Unschooling

*******NOTE: I HAVE MISLAID MY CELL PHONE FOR 4 DAYS. I WILL NOT ANSWER OR RECEIVE MESSAGES ON IT UNTIL IT IS FOUND.*********

We have decided to take keep Frost out of school until we leave to reduce the chance of contracting one of the fall infections going around. Of course, this is not guaranteed to work and Frost had a clear sniffle this afternoon. I guess we are doing our best and if he gets a cold and then Wren gets a cold it is just the way things will be.

We leave in 9 days - the day after election day - so he may have the chance to overcome a mild virus but not one of the seasonal coughs and colds that linger.

We had a good day of no-school. We took a bicycle ride around Magnuson park and watched diggers and rollers and compactors making playing fields. We discovered mushrooms hidden under leaves and threw stones into Lake Washington. For snack, we harvested some apples overgrown with brambles. Frost found a long stick and poked some down from a tree and Wren gnawed on one. They were deliciously crisp, sweet and cold.

Frost was interested in mushrooms and wondered whether gills versus pores was an identifying feature. I have promised to show him the mushroom identification guide this evening when the noisy-throwing-one goes to sleep.

Later this afternoon we opened our bale of straw and started to spread it around the yard. Frost lost a bouncing ball over the fence (ever time we play outside he loses a toy over the fence!)

Its time for bathtime and the bedtime roller-coaster.

2 comments:

Gina and the Gang said...

I'm keeping Casey out of preschool, daycare, the supermarket, EVERYWHERE starting November 1st in hopes that he will not catch something to delay our November 7th Fontan surgery. It will be interesting to see how I keep him busy under quarantine!

Shannon said...

Do you think that November 1st - 7th is long enough? I remember that every cough-cold Frost got last year seemed to linger a few weeks.

I don't know how completely OVER a cold a child has to be for anesthesia but I am really on edge trying to keep Wren healthy. Everyone seems ill and now Frost is showing signs of a cold too.