I have really been enjoying the round eyed people that spring forth from Rose Pink's pen.
Here is some handwriting on a post-it. She was helping make a to do list. You can see "shoes" in the middle- we were getting ready to go somewhere.Mr. Brown has read a couple books on homeschooling as we're exploring it a bit more. He discovered that in general he favors the philosophies of unschooling and unit study and maybe Charlotte Mason, all of which are tend towards unstructured. He did decide that he's going to pursue more learning with Rose Pink this fall, mostly in the way of lots of reading and more science movies, since she loves movies, and also the encouragement to ask and answer questions. He has always been really good at attending to and answering questions she asks. Yesterday they called me up to ask how elephants sleep. (Standing up.) He does tend to complicate answers sometimes. Yesterday she asked how elephants hear, and he responded, "Do you know how waves work?" She just looked at him, and he said, "Elephants hear with their ears." Her face cleared. Of course. With their ears.
They've been reading books about volcanoes lately, and yesterday at dinner Rose Pink took a drink of milk and said, All the bumps on my tongue- that's the village. And the milk is the lava. She picked up her glass and said, Aaaaah! Look out! Run! and then took another drink of milk.
