Learning and teaching on the go

We rarely wrote about learning on the go. After all, we had curriculum to cover and teaching materials with us. We did this repeatedly. But not every day, and weekdays and weekends didn't matter. Just whenever it fit into the day...
I was responsible for teaching/learning. I entered the learning material communicated by the teachers into a table and packed the copies/teaching materials accordingly. At first, I discussed the tasks in advance, but that stressed me out with three children who always needed something from me at the same time and worked quite dependent on me. Following Claudio's advice, I started making lesson plans. Although it required more preparation work, it made the learning phases much more relaxed for both me and the boys, and they worked much more independently. 

Most of the time, we learned at 'home', sometimes we packed something and worked on the go. It was great when something came up that the boys could 'prepare' for. That way, they could talk about it on the go and give a presentation as a city or museum guide.

Thanks to Harry Potter, Mauro and Claudio (who would have thought!) immersed themselves for hours in the world of fantasy. And we only had to get them out for meals and sleep (and of course, there were also days when hours of reading were not possible...). 
But not only Harry Potter, but also the other non-fiction books in the box and the thick book 'KNOWLEDGE' were reading material or reference books.

And then of course, we learned a lot of other things that 'came our way...' We had profound discussions, many history lessons from the Romans to the Moors, the Middle Ages, and again and again about World War II; on-site examples of seasonal vegetables, cultivation methods, and their consequences, about plastic and waste on land and in water, refugees and beggars and the homeless...
We pursued questions that we couldn't answer either. Researched and told and explained.

And then we learned a lot about the traditions, language, way of life, biodiversity, traffic, and geography in Andalusia/Spain.
And we learned what is important when traveling, how you have to organize yourself, and how coexistence works so that you can stand each other for 8 weeks.

We learned for school, but above all for life and for our coexistence as a family.
Well, we have taken on all these administrative hassles. Thanks to the Canton of Zurich (and our friends from Zurich!) that made this possible.