Alright. The boys and I chatted it up and came up with this list of things we want to learn this year. We'll see how things pan out.
Science:
Chemistry (Noam wants to do)
Alternative Power (R wants to do)
Garden- flowers/ veggies?
GPS hunting- gotta find that website I read that talks about treasure hunting with a GPS- maybe we can borrow one

CURSIVE writing- these boys cannot read/ write cursive. Not a big deal, except for the fact that they can't read cards and things they get in the mail

Math- work on daily

Cooking- once a week

Writing
creative
journals
non-fiction (book reviews?)
animal projects (Noam)

Unit studies:
Alternative power
volcanoes (this one came about this morn when Noam said some false things about volcanoes- not a biggie, but when you live on a volcano it's good to KNOW about them!)


So far that's the list. We spend so much time just going with the flow of daily life that I have no idea if we get to this stuff. We should put history on there too and do some reading. Part of me feels good to have a "plan" and then the other part wonders if it's truly necessary. We've seemingly done fine up until now just going with the flow (unschooling?) but I do want to make sure that if there is something either of them wants to do, that we DO it.

We're also hooking up with a new group- Roots and Shoots- though I'm still not sure how that will take shape- maybe just more of a playgroup that sometimes does projects. it's coming together tho. we'll see.