Last night Wizard went to spend 2 nights with his unschooled friend, so this gave Jelly bean the chance to have the livingroom as her bedroom for a night. She was sooooooooooo excited to be able to do this as usually the living room is Wizards, where she shares a room with her older sister. We do this because if we let them both do what they wanted in the livingroom together, well nobody would get any sleep! At any rate her eyes sparkled with delight when she realized she would be able to do whatever she wanted until how ever late she wanted with the TV and video games in the living room. So now that she can choose anything she wants as we all give up the living room , I walk out and notice she is watching the History Channel on “The first Invasion-The War of 1812 and was like MOM you have to watch this with me it is soooooooooo interesting!” So here it was me thinking I would be able to jump on the computer! DUH not a chance, I sigh and sit down to watch the History channel with her and notice she is trying to take notes, saying this is what I want learn it is fascinating! then hands me the pen and paper and told me to take good notes on the important key facts! I am obliged to help and was like you know sweety, we could always look up a fact page online about the War of 1812, it may be easier than writing notes and she was like yeah go do that mom and print it off so you can read it to me! Sigh, run off to computer look it up, print it off and reads it to her!
Well now she is talking about how we need to get several books on the war of 1812 but they have to be ones that have photos in them, well I can not let all this enthusiasm go to waste, we have a few dollars to spare so again I run off back to the computer and head to Amazon and ordered this book http://www.amazon.com/World-History-1812-Don-Nardo/dp/1560065818/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270904932&sr=1-13
I also noticed an American Girl historical fiction book I will have to order as soon as I get a little money as Jelly bean is a huge American Girl fan and they have a whole history mysteries line. This is the one I will be ordering soon that deals with the war of 1812 http://www.amazon.com/Smugglers-Treasure-American-History-Mysteries/dp/1562477579/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270904932&sr=1-14
When I told her what I ordered she was like awww thanks mom! when will it come? Well I dont know exactly but soon! I told her about the american girl one and she really wants me to get it so that will be the next one.
When all was done and said she looked at me and simply said “Wow history is awesome!” LOL
I love unschooling moments such as this!
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