LEAP- Unschool! LbNA #37471 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jan 2, 2008 |
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| City: | ??? |
| County: | Tarrant |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Mama  |
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| Found by: | ??? |
| Last found: | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Status: | Fr |
| Last edited: | Jan 2, 2008 |
LEAP- Learn, Explore, Adventure, Play- is an unschooling group of young children who play and learn together with their families all over the DFW metroplex. It is the second unschooling group with this name (the first is in Southern New Hampshire) but is one of many unschooling groups in this area and across the nation.
What is unschooling? Unschooling is a sub-group of homeschooling and is centered around the philosophy that people are natural life-long learners- childhood being no exception. There are no curriculums, no plans set in stone for what should be learned and when. The child’s voracious appetite for learning is fed by real-world experiences and time shared with people of all ages. For more information on unschooling go to: http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/earl_stevens.html
To find this box, go to the public library of the metroplex town voted Money Magazine’s 50th best place to live in 2007.
Park facing the playground and prepare to unschool. Bring a child or exercise (exorcise?) the child within. Get out of the car and assess the playground determining the best place to start for the day. Should you get a book from the library first? Run directly to the slides and compare the velocity that you travel down them compared to your bigger/smaller companion or those that happen to be there with you. Compare the velocity today with that of the other day when you were wearing different pants. If you are so inclined, you can use a stopwatch and time yourself going down in different positions and compare. Hypothesize how long it will take for the back of your pants to dry (factoring in the weather) after you slide into the puddle at the bottom of the twisty slide. Swing for a bit, practicing different ways of distributing your weight to make it go higher. Go sit in the triangle “spaceship” and blast-off into space using language and storylines from the space travel books you were reading last week. Go jump on the bouncy bridge just for fun but notice that your action creates an equal and opposite reaction when you bounce next to your similarly sized friends. Go to the picnic table and distribute your snack evenly between you and your new-found playground friend. Just behind the picnic tables there is a great place to build a castle! So sit down on the little seat there and begin building! Towers require damper sand and wide, strong bases to support the height. Water can be brought in by digging irrigation ditches or even a moat! Note to self- must get books on castles, kings, and dragons before going home.
If you are feeling like going soon, check under your seat on the east side (by library) under sand and leaves for LEAP- Unschool! This is a completely out-in-the-open location. Please be quiet and stealthy like the Native Americans for the path of the quiet elk "...is not a place, but a way of learning to look at life.” (from The Path of the Quiet Elk: A Native American Alphabet Book by Virginia A. Stroud) Be sneaky and thorough re-hiding this one as children are naturally curious!!!
What is unschooling? Unschooling is a sub-group of homeschooling and is centered around the philosophy that people are natural life-long learners- childhood being no exception. There are no curriculums, no plans set in stone for what should be learned and when. The child’s voracious appetite for learning is fed by real-world experiences and time shared with people of all ages. For more information on unschooling go to: http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/earl_stevens.html
To find this box, go to the public library of the metroplex town voted Money Magazine’s 50th best place to live in 2007.
Park facing the playground and prepare to unschool. Bring a child or exercise (exorcise?) the child within. Get out of the car and assess the playground determining the best place to start for the day. Should you get a book from the library first? Run directly to the slides and compare the velocity that you travel down them compared to your bigger/smaller companion or those that happen to be there with you. Compare the velocity today with that of the other day when you were wearing different pants. If you are so inclined, you can use a stopwatch and time yourself going down in different positions and compare. Hypothesize how long it will take for the back of your pants to dry (factoring in the weather) after you slide into the puddle at the bottom of the twisty slide. Swing for a bit, practicing different ways of distributing your weight to make it go higher. Go sit in the triangle “spaceship” and blast-off into space using language and storylines from the space travel books you were reading last week. Go jump on the bouncy bridge just for fun but notice that your action creates an equal and opposite reaction when you bounce next to your similarly sized friends. Go to the picnic table and distribute your snack evenly between you and your new-found playground friend. Just behind the picnic tables there is a great place to build a castle! So sit down on the little seat there and begin building! Towers require damper sand and wide, strong bases to support the height. Water can be brought in by digging irrigation ditches or even a moat! Note to self- must get books on castles, kings, and dragons before going home.
If you are feeling like going soon, check under your seat on the east side (by library) under sand and leaves for LEAP- Unschool! This is a completely out-in-the-open location. Please be quiet and stealthy like the Native Americans for the path of the quiet elk "...is not a place, but a way of learning to look at life.” (from The Path of the Quiet Elk: A Native American Alphabet Book by Virginia A. Stroud) Be sneaky and thorough re-hiding this one as children are naturally curious!!!