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2. Day of skiing, this time in Silver Star , Vernon:

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We have the ski season heralded 2007/2008! Apex Mountain was the first ski resort in our area (well, almost 2 hours drive), which has now opened its doors. The others have not enough all the snow and were forced to postpone their first Ö ffnungstag. Also in Apex was only one lift open and only one exit - to my horror, a richly steep blue ski, so moderate. When I stood up, I was just about to unbuckle my skis and walk my way into ß Village to look back, but then I've put together all the courage and put me on wobbly knees of the challenge. For Julian the "Okanagan Run" (so here ß exit) was of course again no particular problem, only that he had to stop frequent stops so that his mother also comes afterwards. He apparently has forgotten over the summer does not have his daring on the slopes naturalized ß t even skiing.

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October is pumpkin time and so it went today with the homeschooling group is also for "McMillan Pumpkin Patch ...

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do I still am with the categorization of our weekly activities, some seriously. Life just does not squeeze in a drawer. Frequently activities fit into multiple categories, sometimes not really ...

These are the categories that I want on the form provided, in which I add at least 25 hours per week:

first SelfDesign practice - Planning - Learning to lear n - Epistemology - Systemic thinking

2. Wellness - Health - Physical Activity - Sports - Exercise - Kinesthetic Awareness

3. Languaging - Communication - Writing/Reading - Media

4. H umanities - Social studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, geography

5. Culture - 2 ^nd language

6. SelfDesigning - Conversations between parent/learner, mentor/learner

7. Logic - Math - Analytical thinking

8. Livingry - Tools for Living - Applied Skills - Information Technology - Financial Management - Career

9. Science - Ecology - Naturalistic Understanding

10. Creativity - Artistic Expression Appreciation and

11th Philosophy - Ethics and Ontology - Spiritual practice - Religious Studies

12th Learning Committee - Family Meetings - Overall Planning and Evaluation - Home learning environment - Sustaining conversations

If, Julian, for example, like this afternoon happen, made with the word processing program Word a menu that is then "Languaging" , because he writes something? Category 8 or more, because he practices the use of computers and because the activity at the same time in the drawer "Livingry" and "Financial Management" fits when he sets for the various food prices? In the end it does not really matter whether you log all activities in the "correct" categories, and I know that many families, the hours more "rule of thumb" Register and not so seriously, but as the price demanded by the Ministry for accept their freedom. For Julian, it is irrelevant anyway, where about a place for his activities - he learns what is important to him, without thinking in categories. At the end of the year is then somehow a fairly accurate overview of our life without school, such as here for Julian's Home Schooling year 2006/2007:

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Today's Program at the "Planet Bee " on honey bees was clearly much more compelling than The "Bear Facts" last week. The beekeepers were able to transfer his fascination for these animals on his audience. I never thought that a lecture on bees can be so interesting. Who knows ß know that a bee has to travel 15,000 km to a tablespoon of honey to produce! And who has ever been a bee see slip? The trip to Vernon was truly worth it!




















PS comment of a Au ß ARISING:
my aunt, currently on a visit to Kelowna, noticed how calm and interested in the younger children in the group during the entire event was - a pleasant contrast to the typical school class to class outing!

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How are we only came up with the idea, consider learning to such under the microscope? Why can we not just let nature take its course instead of always understand each step and monitor need to? I enjoy e ß such as Julian's love of reading rather than to understand in detail how his reading ability has developed. What would it mean to me also avail of it as has suddenly become such an avid reader, or how he learned English? Every child is different and learns differently. His "method" would in any case not be transferred to others.

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"Bear Facts ". Bears are currently a very hot topic, because they come down particularly at this season from the mountains into the city to eat the salmon that the currents walk up to their spawning waters for dessert they eat then apples from the apple orchards at. the program in EECO we learned how to distinguish brown bears and black bears, and some part of their lives. Unfortunately the staff not the EECO so well with our diverse group and one you noted it clear that it otherwise with school groups should work. When the children of "single file" go beyond a narrow bridge, some mothers had their first explain what this mean is. The good Marschierart in rows of two or individually in succession, the children in our homeschool group naturgemä not used ß . The other commands such as show of hands as a sign of peace and mouths with Rei ß ss breechblock closed, ears and feet ß e still "not brought so completely the desired effect. When then in the midst of their statements our spider expert in the bushes to go to fish for a new research topic, and thus drew the attention of the group, she became very upset. Spiders right in the Bears program, were obviously not intended and did not seem to be willing to the learning moments to take it as they arise. Well, it certainly made Spa ß and we have learned a lot: for example, we did not know how a bear looks heaps, until we have a boy from the group on our walk one shown by the wayside! Nicola has recorded their impressions in their blog.

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The "Kokanee Salmon Festival " Julian and I have learned many new things today. For example, how salmon find their way back to their spawning grounds are - they make use of three tools: 1 They use their sense of smell, as each stream has its own odor, 2 they are guided by the stars and 3 they have metal in some of their bones, enabling them to focus on the basis of the magnetic field of the Earth. At another level, the children a model of water circulation in the Okanagan Valley and demonstrated they could do pH tests with various liquids. In addition, I had the opportunity to make many new contacts with organizations, programs for schools (and home schooling groups) offer.

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is still Julians Interest in whales and dolphins, gro ß . Therefore, I suspected that he might like the series "Dolphin Diaries " - and, indeed, another hit! Protagonist of the books is Jody, whose parents are biologists. Jody and her family to stay for a year by sailing ship around the world to study dolphins. In the action events are always interesting information scattered about dolphins and other topics are touched on such as autism and the family in the second volume of a center for dolphin therapy visits. We are now in fourth band The series was published under the title " dolphin magic" in German.

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"parents' day" at SelfDesign: Mami exchanged for four hours with the new learning consultant from Julian while her two boys with eager to dig in the sand and romp through the water.

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Julian day at the beach. "I ß e the water energy in here and just watch where it's flowing ß en want my way (which he had dug in the sand) are indeed just a suggestion. " I found a beautiful image for our way of homeschooling. I'm Julian proposals would lead him close to new, live before him an open, interested life - and then let him make his choice what he Spa ß makes and in which direction he wants to steer his life.

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first violin lesson! With much enthusiasm and excitement Julian start in a new adventure. Only has his violin teacher, the new instrument "ready" and have then could begin at last. At the beginning some string bowing exercises with the teacher, but after 20 minutes it was Julian play the first little bit (only on open strings, of course). The teacher played the voice accompanying it and it sounded right after it! In the evening he has his piece of the same plays for the grandmother, who arrived yesterday from Germany.

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Since Sunday, we officially the 2007/2008 school year - this year with 650 students instead of the previous 450! now so I track back at least 25 hours Lernaktivit ä tf ü SelfDesign r and write w ö weekly " Observation for Learning -reports. counter ü over the last school year, there are some Ä changes. We have a new learning consultant, Monique Richoux that we know not yet personally, but so far only by e-mail exchange. Next week Monday we meet with her, she lives about 1 1 / 2 hours from Kelowna. I have also decided to monitor activities in Julian's English is no longer in the category of "foreign language" but the "language".

run in the coming days so slowly to all of our fall classes and activities. Taekwon-Do will start again this week after the club had in the last two weeks summer break on Thursday, Julian has his first hour of violin lessons, next Tuesday begins "Home Schooler Gymnastics" and tomorrow we have our last "Beach Day" with the homeschooling group . Starting next Wednesday, we will make together again excursions.

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Some stats of our homeschooling summer 2007
(3.6 -.. 1.9)

interest side, I design, despite self-summer holidays in the past 13 weeks still logged Julians learning activities with the following results ...

Total hours: 399.5
which

• language: 28,25
• foreign language (English): 115.5
• Mathematics: 8
• Science: 65.75
• Social Sciences: 47.75
• Sports + Nutrition: 103.75
• creativity, art, music: 11.5
required by the Ministry:: 19

Practical skills + Information Technology
nothing
Read aloud books, German: 3
been read books, English: 34
Julians even read books, German: 14
Julians even read books, English: 133

compared to statistics for our homeschooling year 2006/2007 :
In 34 weeks of the school year 2006/2007 we have logged an average of 29.76 hours per week in learning activities. In the 13-week summer holidays, there were an average of 30.73 hours. Conclusion? Learning appears before the summer, or have found no support - in other words - Julian has year-round summer holidays.

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Julian's summer reading list ...

German:

Minarik, Else: f A kiss ü r the small B ä Ren
Hauer, Lydia: Lesel ö whom firefighting knowledge
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nick nose on the dinosaur track
Benny Blu: dogs - friends of the man
Benny Blu: aircraft - from gliders to Airbus
Benny Blu: Fire - L ö between , rescue, mountains, Sch ü down
Benny Blu: cats
Benny Blu: snakes
Benny Blu: Volcanoes
Benny Blu: current
Benny TV: Television
Benny Blu: Radio
Benny Blu: water
Benny Blu: Gef hle ü

English:

All about… Famous Canadians from British Columbia
All about… Provinces and Territories – Prince Edward Island
Pringle, Laurence P.: Whales! – strange and wonderful
Splash! – a book about whales and dolphins (Hello Reader! – Science, Level 3)
Berger, Melvin: Growl! – a book about bears (Hello Reader! – Science, Level 3)
Kalman, Bobbie: What is a rodent? (The Science of Living Things)
All about… Provinces and Territories – Nunavut
All about… Provinces and Territories – Alberta
All about… Provinces and Territories – British Columbia
All about… Capital Cities - Toronto
All about… Capital Cities – St. John’s
All about… Capital Cities – Quebec City
All about… Capital Cities - Fredericton
All about… Capital Cities - Halifax
All about… Capital Cities - Charlottetown
Greenaway, Theresa: Whales
From maple trees to maple syrup
Gordon, Sharon: Sunburn
Gordon, Sharon: Bruises
Curry, Don L.: How does your brain work?
Berger, Melvin: Grrr! A book about big cats
Mayer, Mercer: The little Christmas tree
Mayer, Mercer: Christmas for Miss Kitty
Mayer, Mercer: Play it safe
Simon, Seymour: Killer whales
Holub, Joan: Why do birds sing?
All about… Provinces and Territories – Nova Scotia
All about… Capital Cities – Ottawa
Baker, Keith: On the go with Mr. and Mrs. Green
Bourgeois, Paulette: Franklin fibs
Bourgeois, Paulette: Franklin rides a bike
Bourgeois, Paulette: Franklin is bossy
Bourgeois, Paulette: Franklin wants a pet
Rogers, Hal: Tow trucks
Anderson, Scoular: Superdog Stan
Thomson, Sarah L.: Amazing Whales!
Swanson, Diane: Welcome to the world of otters
Kalman, Bobbie: What is a dog? (The Science of Living Things)
Berger, Melvin: Dive! – a book of deep-sea creatures
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the tardy tortoise
Behnke, Alison: Firefighters
Randolph, Joanne: Solids in my world (My World of Science)
Randolph, Joanne: Liquids in my world (My World of Science)
Randolph, Joanne: Gases in my world (My World of Science)
Maynard, Christopher: Why do volcanoes erupt?
Caplan, Jeremy: Volcanoes! (Time for Kids)
Mitchell, Melanie: School Bus Drivers
Liebman, Daniel: I want to be a builder
Liebman, Daniel: I want to be a musician
Theodore Roosevelt : the adventurous president (Time for Kids)
Baker, Keith: Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green
Baker, Keith: More Mr. and Mrs. Green
Petrie, Kristin: Vitamins are vital
Saunders, Susan: Uptown poodle, downtown pups (All-American Puppies)
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great saves the King of Sweden
Knudsen, Shannon: From sand to glass
Taus-Bolstad, Stacy: From grass to milk
Taus-Bolstad, Stacy: From clay to brick
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the sticky case
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the owl express
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great talks turkey
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the big sniff
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the fishy prize
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter and Tabby pour the tea
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter and Tabby make a wish
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter and Tabby catch the cold
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter and Tabby stir the soup
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter and Tabby spin the yarn
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter and Tabby take the train
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter and Tabby paint the porch
Alborough, Jez: Captain Duck
Simon, Seymour: Bridges
Thomson, Sarah L.: Amazing dolphins!
Swanson, Diane: Welcome to the world of raccoons
Swanson, Diane: Welcome to the world of beavers
Swanson, Diane: Welcome to the world of moose
Mayer, Mercer: A day at camp
Kalman, Bobbie: Photosynthesis – changing sunlight into food
Kalman, Bobbie: Helpful and harmful insects
Oxlade, Chris: Mighty machines
Rudy, Lisa: Snakes! (Time for kids)
Glover, David: Fire trucks (Big machines)
Raatma, Lucia: Fire safety
Demarest, Chris: Firefighters A to Z
Hood, Susan: Pup and hound hatch an egg
Hood, Susan: Pup and hound in trouble
Park, Yeon Hwan: Taekwondo for kids
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great – San Francisco detective
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and me – The case of the fleeing fang
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the pillowcase
Hopping, Lorraine: Avalanche! (Hello Reader, Level 4, Science, Wild Earth!)
Hopping, Lorraine: Floods! (Hello Reader, Level 4, Science, Wild Weather!)
Glover, David: Diggers
Glover, David: Trucks
Hood, Susan: Pup and hound catch a thief
Hood, Susan: Pup and hound stay up late
Hoff, Syd: Sammy, the seal
Barrett, Jalma: Cougar (Wild cats!)
Capucilli, Alyssa: Biscuit
Frost, Helen: Cats (All about pets)
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the boring beach bay
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the musical note
Hood, Susan: Pup and hound move in
Dale, Jenny: Bob the bouncy kitten
Crisp, Marty: Everything cat – what kids really want to know about cats
Costello, Emily: Abandoned puppy
McKee, Karen: How to draw airplanes
Hood, Susan: Pup and hound
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter & Tabby write the book
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter & Tabby feed the fish
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter & Tabby bake the cake
Rylant, Cynthia: Mr. Putter & Tabby row the boat
Costello, Emily: Rabbit Rescue
Dale, Jenny: Max the muddy puppy
Dale, Jenny: Gus the greedy puppy
Dale, Jenny: Double trouble (Puppy patrol)
Dale, Jenny: Lily the lost puppy (Puppy friends)
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the monster mess
Sharmat, Marjorie: Nate the Great and the missing key
Thomas and friends – The Cranky Day
Thomas and friends – Trouble for Thomas
Thomas and friends – A cow on the line
Thomas and friends – Percy’s Chocolate Crunch
Thomas and friends – Thomas gets tricked
Crisp, Marty: Everything horse – what kids really want to know about horses
Crisp, Marty: Everything dolphin – what kids really want to know about dolphins
Thomas and friends - Diesel’s Devious Deed
Thomas and friends - Thomas and the rumors
Thomas and friends - A better view for Gordon
Zoobook - Whales
Thomas, Keltie: The kids guide to money cent$
Kiefer, Jeanne: Jobs for kids

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This is the school to which I will send next week Julian not . On Tuesday, the school starts again, and "Back to school" is everywhere. All transactions present backpacks, notebooks, pens and other school supplies at the entrance and several times Julian been raised already for the upcoming school early - on which school he goes to which class he comes from, etc. - which he says every time he homeschoolt and I would add: "He gets to do the fun stuff all year round."

Public schools in Kelowna definitely have a certain flair and see more army or less all the same. Every classroom seems by default ß ig only one or two small windows to have in some cases even no natural light. Most German schools will at least provide a complete windows per classroom, and at least primary schools are often designed color nice. In addition I have recently done together with other home-school parent group from our thoughts. I told her that I find the Canadian school buildings horrible and depressing and I not like to imagine what it must be to sit there all day and not checking for the outdoors ß s can. On the other hand, I noticed, it is perhaps more cruel when students can look into the open and constantly have in mind what they are missing. My friend found that Canadian schools are at least "honest". The friendly look of the German schools gives the impression, they said that what was in these rooms is about joy, Spa ß to learn and develop freely. The Canadian schools, however let her barrack-like appearance left no doubt what happened behind those walls: Kids are taught by the hour for state fixed plan curriculum, regardless of whether they master it, even if he overwhelmed or whether they have any interest in becoming have. At least in Canada there is no obligation to attend school - and thus has each family to choose whether they opt for the barracks or in the gray uniform look for the colorful world.

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for 1.30 clock last night we had set the alarm clock in order to observe the total lunar eclipse . When the alarm rang, Julian and I were no longer so sure that we get up really attract us and wanted to go out into the cool night (about 6 degrees C). After some muttering and grumbling, we struggled through but still have our winter jackets attracted (Julian has even dusted gloves) and barricaded ourselves armed with trail mix and a book in our car in the parking lot outside the house. I've never seen a lunar eclipse and Julian, of course, certainly not. So often one has the opportunity not so. The next total lunar eclipse, according to NASA on 21.2.2008 (and there's probably greater risk ß it that the moon is hiding behind a cloud cover) and then again until 2010! It was very exciting to watch how the moon was darkened and increasingly appeared an hour later completely orange. When we after 3 clock back in bed and have seen occasionally blinking now from where the darkened moon, because he had been moved far enough west, we thought about how it was probably used for the man, a moon- or to witness solar eclipse, to be quite surprising and inexplicable to them had. Thank you, Nicola, that You have made us aware of this natural spectacle! As I read in your blog have her have also witnessed the lunar eclipse.

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Today we went with the homeschooling group in the Okanagan Lavender Farm and the children have a lavender wand have woven. Then there were lavender and lavender lemonade - delicious!