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simple village skip to main skip to sidebar simple village a place to jot down our ideas concerns excitement inspirations etc about our future commune and homeschool co op tuesday november 3 2009 unschooling couchsurfed with an unschooling family of two tween aged boys they were sooooooooo polite gracious good with the kids helpful around the house without being asked set the table made pancakes in the morning cleaned up the kids mess helped carry our luggage then spent their free time reading or working on their robotics stuff told us about living on a sailboat for three years doing roadtrips around the country going to museums taking art classes and music lessons and culture lectures can t wait to travel to europe again volunteer in the community maintaining the trails etc was so awesome to meet a real live unschooling family and see how well its working for them i don t think i ll be able to do 100 willy nilly unschooling i need some kind of structure in my life even if its just a weekly checklist did something related to math science history arts culture language etc will definitely do lots of museums and roadtrips projects or reports reading internships etc so exciting posted by chrisndave at 7 12 pm 1 comment labels unschooling unschooling homestead commune locale nw summary of the nw roadtrip washington nixed twisp omak okanogan too small dumpy white trashy winthrop would be fun with the cute western theme located right at the eastern mouth of the north cascades but it seems expensive and there s not a decent sized ski resort or hospital nearby lake chelan decent size hospital nice enough town in terms of appearance huge 50 mile lake for recreating only a 2 tow rope ski hill expensive lake side properties but reasonably priced in the hills wenatchee didn t get to see the town but heard there s a big hospital and a decent sized ski resort with relatively inexpensive season passes and presumably decent mountainbiking on a wide river good for recreating don t know about property prices kind of in the middle of nowhere long drive to seattle or portland bellingham also didn t get to see this place but it was recommended by two people after they heard our plan college town close to the border aka skiing at whistler and the coast aka beach and sjislands and the north cascades aka hiking camping etc oregon no income tax and the most lenient homeschooling regulations in the country hood river valley my top pick 1 2way between hood river and mt hood 20 miles from the columbia river gorge 20 miles from all the camping backpacking hiking skiing mountainbiking around mt hood access to all the awesome waterfall hikes along the gorge and 1 hour from portland awesome outdoorsy atmosphere huge properties with endless orchards nice newly renovated hospital very few chain stores etc mt hood ski pass 499 bend not that impressed too much sprawl not enough character and in the middle of nowhere 3hrs from portland plenty of recreation options however on mt bachelor and the lakes sisters strict housing laws only one per property but a cute western style downtown access to two ski resorts less commercialized than bend posted by chrisndave at 6 52 pm no comments labels homeschool laws location the new global student good book though it spent too much time trying to convince me why its a good strategy just preaching to the choir general recommendation assuming we don t care if our kids don t go to an ivy league school take community college classes asap graduate early study travel abroad for a year or two then apply to colleges without having to submit a high school gpa sat or act score with a more unique personal statement fluency in another language and a more mature world perspective posted by chrisndave at 6 42 pm no comments labels books travel saturday april 11 2009 unschooling handbook book club discussion i really love this idea of unschooling of course it makes the whole homeschool co op thing less feasible i still think we should work something out where we share the responsibility of teaching sometimes just so that we moms can get an occasional break maybe weekly field trips where only half the moms go and the other half get to stay home and take a long bubble bath also i think it would be good to create a database of skills so if someone s kid is really into learning about microfinance or building a table or ancient civilizations or creating a stock portfolio or whatever then we know who to go to and we could definitely swap things like that like just have it be an open agreement where we ll teach each other s kids things that are in our areas of expertise and what i keep thinking about with this unschooling this is that basically you re just preparing them for life regular school prepares them for tests prepares them for more school but it doesn t necessarily prepare them for life so we have the chance to really show our kids how all that school stuff actually relates to the real world and they can learn it in context which makes me think that i d like to make visiting places of employment shadowing professionals doing mini internships interviewing people lots of volunteering etc a big part of my kids education what better way to help them see the relevancy of statistics and economics that have them spend a week shadowing or doing a mini internship at a non profit as for record keeping i m kind of an organizational geek so i definitely want to keep records for my own kids and what better way than a blog my favorite when the kids get older i think they should just blog what they re doing and that will serve as a great record and reminder later when they want to put together a more formal portfolio i d also like to have each kid do an end of year or season or 6 months or whatever time period they decide on portfolio project and presentation it could take any form really but would show what they had learned and accomplished and would be something concrete i m only about halfway through the book but i m sure i ll have more thoughts before i finish it what are you thinking so far posted by amy at 10 02 am no comments labels books education unschooling saturday april 4 2009 commune idea so i m trying to think of how all of us commune mamas could make a little on the commune how about i become a midwife and the rest could be doulas and we could have a little midwife doula practice or we could become yoga instructors with a studio on the commune property or do guided hikes i need want to learn what all the flora fauna fowl of the area are or we could have a raw organic store where we sell the excess of what we grow and also have big barrels full of raw wheat and seeds and dried fruits and pastas and nuts and everyone has to bring their own container bag and pay by weight we could sell little blankets or crocheted stuff you make too and we could let people come visit experience the commune for a small fee posted by chrisndave at 1 59 pm 1 comment labels income small business the unschooling handbook christi s already reading this so i m joining her i also picked up john holt s teach your own i heard he s good if anyone else wants to join in and read these so we can all swap ideas and impressions jump right in posted by amy at 11 32 am no comments labels books education unschooling tuesday march 31 2009 welcome chris and carlie i added chris and carlie as authors to the blog so they can add their brilliant ideas to the mix ps and they re getting married in less than a month hooray posted by amy at 1 24 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom here s a place to store all our commune and co op schooling ideas let s make sure to tag each post so the blog is easily search able when we want to go back and find things co operative home schooling home school co op know how how to start a home school co op how to start a home school co op 2 intentional communities acorn community daybreak global ecovillage network info on traditional neighborhood development plus links to tnds intentional communities is commune living for you ne portland ecovillage planet friendly raw vegan village starting an intentional community twin oaks intentional community wasatch commons books add stars to the title decent good great haven t read it yet home school co ops how to start them run them and not burn out instead of education ways to help people do things better last child in the woods place based education sobel soulemama bookshop on unschooling titles include learning all the time dumbing us down how children learn teach your own the teenage liberation handbook the underground history of american education homeschooling our children unschooling ourselves guerrilla learning and the skylark sings with me the unschooling handbook how to use the whole world as your child s classroom by mary griffith the unschooling unmanual possible places any state that is homeschool friendly and where gardens grow well chile africa french polynesia conway nh how about british columbia idaho city in boise nat l forest 1hr from boise somewhere in co or mt somewhere in or or wa tahoe area blog archive 2009 11 november 3 unschooling unschooling homestead commune locale nw the new global student april 3 march 4 january 1 2008 6 december 1 october 5