Dad and Musa picked up the old washer from a friends house yesterday and Musa spent the ENTIRE day taking it apart. He would run in the house at intervals and give me a progress report. He was truly excited. He was pleased he got to use Dad's rachet set and wire cutters. His goal for yesterday was to get to the motor, which he finally did. He was a little disappointed because he was hoping it would have gears, but was happy when he figured out the pulley system. We are going to see if we can make something cool out of the drum, you never know what you might see in my yard the next time you come buy.
When he took the back off of the top panel he found a mouse nest. He would have been happy to see the mouse. Not me. Had it been me, that would have been the end of the project, but for Musa it was an added bonus. He checked carefully to see if the mouse had eaten through any of the wires. We didn't see any evidence of that. I was amazed that a mouse could even get in there. It looked pretty tight to me.
I have NEVER in the 8 years Musa and I have been together, have I ever seen him with the energy, and patience he had with this project. He was in the garage for 6 hours. I am not sure what all he learned, but he was sure doing it his way.
2 comments:
Just wanted to stop and by and tell you that I ABSOLUTELY love your journal. Your Homeschooling experiences and your family are very, very, inspiring.
Hi. My name is Suni and I have a son who will be 2 next month. I learned of your site from the unschooling group on yahoo. I am so happy to see how unschooling has worked for you. We are just starting out and our blog is http://eternalearning.blogspot.com . It's awesome to see how great unschooling really is. Thank you for taking the time to put this all down for others to see and be enlightened about this awesome child led learning process. GBU and your fam.
Suni
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