What to learn about - July 2011

One of my favorite questions to ask my son, is "what do you want to learn today?"

On his own, he already comes up with some pretty interesting questions. Though when you ask him what he wants to learn about, he comes up with some pretty interesting things, some of which interest me and amaze me that he wonders about.

I wrote down a list of them today, so we can see how much we can increase learning around here. To really get a feel for unschooling. I wanted to blog about, because some are cute, some are amazing for a 6 year old and just maybe someone in the neighborhood will read this blog and have a learning opportunity available. You never know (hint hint)....

I figure I will post this list of things he wants to learn, and then ask him again next week what he wants to learn. Every week (or sooner if he wants), we can refresh the list to keep it interesting, or continue on with subjects he liked learning about. This will be the first list of July 2011.

EJ's Learning List (July 2011):

*Learn to make Tater Sauce and Onion Rings
*Learn about snakes - how they eat, what they hunt, feel, hear, see and smell. Learn about different types of snakes, especially rattle snakes
*Learn about puppies
*Learn how combustion engines are built
*Learn about Alaska
*Learn about how our house was built
*Learn about cowboys, then have a cowboy camping trip next year. What cowboys wear, what they do, go see horses, learn about cattle farming, about what cowboys wear
*Learn about how some Deserts used to be Oceans
*How do petstores get the fish they sell?
*Go to Carkeek park and learn about the wildlife, how the beach formed there and learn about the trains there, about how the sand there was made, about how the water got to the beach.
*Learn how to make cookies! (useful skill, lol)

And last but not least, he wanted to learn about the ocean, specifically about how waves are formed. This was one we already got started on, as even though it's late in the day, we can still watch movies. He's now entirely engaged in a Disney documentary about the oceans that was actually made for 5-7 year olds (convenient). For the last hour he's already told me about schools of fish that make whirl pools, big fish with long tails and sea lions.

What I love most though, is how many different things he wants to learn, but at the same time how they can connect or relate to each other. Not to mention, he has enough to start with that could actually take weeks to really learn about, if he wants to keep learning about them. Which he probably will because he's just like that when he finds something he likes.

We'll see how this goes...