{"id":107,"date":"2008-04-02T20:55:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-04-02T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T19:55:13","slug":"by-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"By themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inspection we had a while ago, in which they were supposed to look at the work we actually do, got me thinking.\u00a0 Because the sorts of things children do when left largely to their own devices never look quite like the things they do when they&#8217;re guided by an adult.<\/p>\n<p>French children are supposed to learn poems, then copy them out (don&#8217;t ask me why, since they already know them), then illustrate them.\u00a0 Antonia doesn&#8217;t know this, but for some reason, she decided to copy out and illustrate her favorite poem:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/le-ver.jpg\" title=\"le-ver.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/le-ver.jpg\" alt=\"le-ver.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a> This isn&#8217;t quite how these things turn out when the schoolkids are forced to do them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit more original and a whole lot less polished.\u00a0 Plus, it shows initiative and is an accurate reflection of the amount of time and effort that Little Miss thought the enterprise worthy of.\u00a0 Even this little figurine, for which I provided some of the brute force, is a bit eccentric.\u00a0 I believe it&#8217;s supposed to be a butterfly angel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/cork-angel.jpg\" title=\"cork-angel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/cork-angel.jpg\" alt=\"cork-angel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I imagined that the school inspectors wouldn&#8217;t really grasp this.\u00a0 They are used to assessing children&#8217;s performance on adult-directed activities. Never mind.\u00a0 They chose to set her a two-hour exam instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspection we had a while ago, in which they were supposed to look at the work we actually do, got me thinking.\u00a0 Because the sorts of things children do when left largely to their own devices never look quite like the things they do when they&#8217;re guided by an adult. French children are supposed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">By themselves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}