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Unschooling report

Here is the stuff Serenity and I did this week that some people might think are somewhat schoolish, and some not as well.

On Wednesday we loafed around the house.

On Thursday Serenity had the first session of art class at Monart. She loved it!

We followed that up with a trip to El Cerrito where we met up with the SFBUNies for Perpetual Recess. Again, Serenity loved it. Perpetual Recess is to children what free range chickens are to poultry. No cages, just free range children :-) What it looks like is a big group of old hippies and their offspring :-)

From there we changed into our "fancy clothes" and headed over the Bay Bridge to the San Francisco Symphony where we heard "Lang Lang Plays Chopin" which was pretty good too!

Then today we went and met up with a big bunch of homeschooled folks at Whole Foods and had a tour of the various departments talking about things like what is organic, what does locally produced mean and what is cage free, that sort of thing.

Tomorrow is probably going to be going out to a Holidays in the Vineyards event at Mitchel Katz, and maybe other wineries.

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