Experience Opera this year: Registration

Experience the Seattle Opera this year at $8 per ticket (available for homeschoolers, parents and friends).

Wednesday performances include:

• Bizet's "Carmen" on Oct. 12 (order by Wednesday, Sept. 14), 
• Verdi's "Attila" Jan. 11 (order by Thursday, Dec. 1), 
• Gluck's "Orphee et Eurydice" Feb. 22 (order by January 5), 
• "Don Pasquale" (performed by the Young Artist Program at Meany Hall, UW) on Mar. 28 (payment by 2/29); and 
• Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" on May 2. 

Tickets must be purchased in advance; you can attend one or all.  Call Ramona at 354-2386,  or email operamama@gmx.com for details and registration form (ALSO found here).

For more information about the operas or about Seattle Opera's student programs, visit www.seattleopera.org.

NPR's Profile of an "Unschooler"

Check out this interesting look at the life of an "unschooler," featured on NPR. 

We've never been complete unschoolers, but we've allowed a lot of freedom of choice to our kids.

I was both embarrassed and pleased when my children (then elementary aged) informed someone that "we didn't do school at all this year."

What a compliment; the things we learned and did in the name of learning didn't feel like school!