Our Mexico curriculum? Doesn’t exist!
Or, at least, not in any formal way, which I’m sure you are all shocked to hear. We’re mostly life learners, really, with a smattering of Miquon and Reading Eggs and the like thrown in for good measure. We organize and prioritize our learning opportunities and resources by applying Project-Based Homeschooling overall, which gives us a consistency and continuity that would otherwise be … [Read More]
On our first day here, we met Barbara at the beach. She’s from Comox, and filled us in on what she’d learned since arriving a couple of weeks before. We saw her a couple of times after that, and then one day at Los Muertos, we noticed paramedics attending to her after she hobbled out of the ocean. She’d been stung by a stingray, and was in terrible pain. I … [Read More]
It’s Valentines Day in Sayulita! We decided to do a scavenger hunt for hearts, starting at our house. Sayulita is full of love and hearts, some of the most gorgeous hearts we’ve ever seen. Esmé had a sharp eye for finding them tucked away here and there and everywhere, and we ended up with a gorgeous collection of Valentines. Happy Valentines Day!
Call it whatever you’d like … life-learning, home-learning, world-learning, roadschooling, travel-schooling, homeschooling, unschooling, lifeschooling, hackschooling, independent learning, or just plain life.
People who are self-directed learners at home are also self-directed learners when away from home . They bring their interests with them.
On this trip, Esmé has returned to a favourite project of hers’ … BUGS.
{nb. We’ve purposefully steered away from the subject of … [Read More]
We’ve discovered our favourite beach! It’s a longer walk, but the reward is a stretch of beautiful sand with hardly anyone on it, perfect for swimming and beachcombing and building sand castles. An added bonus is that a local family sets up a barbeque there each day, selling mahi mahi and shrimp skewered on sticks, and platters of fresh oysters with wedges of lime on the side. We bring our … [Read More]
Dear Esmé,
Yesterday you turned five. You can read, you are an ace with numbers, and you are the fastest runner I’ve ever met. You’re working on riding a pedal bike, but still aren’t very interested in climbing the stuff at the park. I doubt you ever will be. You like to watch. Observe. Take note. Which is entirely in keeping with the scientist in you.
You and science are … [Read More]
Hawk has been carefully and mindfully observing the same construction site since the buildings were demolished. In fact, just before they were torn down, he and I had hot chocolate in the café that was reduced to rubble shortly thereafter. He remembers this, and occasionally asks where the cafe went, just so I will tell him the demolition story again.
When the site was levelled, he and I sat on … [Read More]
It’s been a wicked winter.
Hawk and I have been sick since the beginning of December, and are only just getting better now.
And then last week, Esmé woke up in the middle of the night and vomited on and off until the sun came up.
Then I caught that bug, and so we were both out of commission, although it hit me with less force.
As Esmé and I … [Read More]
What did we get up to for Solstice and Christmas?
A cabin by the sea.
A ‘tree’ from abandoned branches.
Burning paper wishes for 2014 on a Solstice fire.
Beeswax candles.
Glow.
Family.
Paper garlands.
Shortbread cookies.
Bird seed & peanut butter & pincones.
Sandcastles.
Winter boots.
Sea snails.
Stellar Jays.
Squirrels.
Friends.
Food.
Christmas lights.
Eagles.
Hot chocolate.
Santa.
Stockings.
Home.
Heart.
Hello, 2014. You are a very … [Read More]
Jack and Hawk made pretzels the other day. I love pretzels, but didn’t have them for years and years and years when I wasn’t eating gluten. One of the wonderful things about eating gluten again is getting reaquainted with wheaty old loves.
Like fresh, warm, pretzels.
And being that Chef Baba can make absolutely anything from scratch far better than it comes at a restaurant or store, she set about … [Read More]
