Our homeschooling style is very eclectic. Basically, I get ideas from a myriad of different places and try to be ready for whatever is going to pop up as a learning experience. So, although a lot of my ideas stem from Montessori, Playful Learning, Raymond Moore, Ruth Beechick, and Charlotte Mason, our school is really led by whatever you girls are interested in at the moment, which may be a form of unschooling. I don't really want to peg ourselves as unschoolers, either. It seems to me that everyone tries to belong to or push everyone else in to boxes, and I don't want you girls to be pushed in to boxes of any sort.
The cool thing about homeschooling is that it makes me more aware of what is going on and it being a learning experience. For example, a neighbor just moved in to our front yard, under the pine tree. She (we don't know for sure if it is a she, but that's what we're going with for now) is a little rabbit that eats our dandelions. Punkin, you decided to call her "Lala." You decided to get as close as you could to her by being quiet and going slowly. I caught this picture, which is as close as you got to her. She started to move, so you went faster to get close to her. She went around the tree, you chased her around the tree. Then she went under the tree and we lost track of her. I'm sure we'll see her again soon, being that her buffet is in our front yard.
This wasn't the first time we'd seen her. Grandpa saw her in the neighbor's front yard the day before Easter. He pointed her out and said, "Hey, Punkin, look! It's the Easter Bunny!" It was so cute! Since then, she's moved into our front yard. Daddy isn't so excited, but I think it's a wonderful learning opportunity!
Yesterday, Punkin, you were asking about steam when I got out of the shower. Then, we were driving home from my cousin's house during a thunderstorm and you asked why rain comes out of the clouds. So I got to explain the water cycle to you. I'm sure we'll talk about it again, as I'm pretty sure you didn't totally understand it. You'll need a few more exposures before you get it. But we have plenty of time for that!
