November 10, 2008 – 10:45 am
Recently at our monthly home school meeting there was a discussion panel on styles of home schooling and different curriculum used. There were 4 mom’s on the panel. One (L) was to talk about being fully aligned with the Province, one (J) was to talk about using a specific curriculum, another (C) about traditional home [...]
October 9, 2008 – 4:16 pm
The other day the antique appraiser I help out, remembering how in the past I have needed to work less in order to spend time teaching the kids, asked when I needed to change my schedule and be less available. It caught me off guard because I have gotten so used to our lifestyle of [...]
By Heather
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Also posted in Application, Character development, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Tagged children, Christian, education, interest led learning, learning, life, Unschooling
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September 17, 2008 – 3:44 pm
I run into this question often from friends, family members, forums, and even unschooling friends. Many are fearful enough that their children won’t naturally attempt to learn things they deem boring or important (often both) that they specifically purchase a curriculum for just that subject–regardless of whether the child has shown interest in it. Issac [...]
By Heather
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Also posted in Application, Character development, Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Struggles, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Tagged curriculum, education, family, interest led learning, kids, learning, math, questions and answers, Unschooling
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September 11, 2008 – 1:39 am
My daughter T loves animals, and she enjoys training them as well. She’s specifically fond of horses, birds and dogs, and even more especially the ponies she rides, she and her brother’s ferrets (one of which she’d entered into a 4-H show last year), and our German Shepherd dog, Samson, whom she’s been “training” for [...]
September 10, 2008 – 1:19 pm
This was written a year ago. It is rather rambling and the pictures I originally had here are gone with my old blog so these photos are from the last year. I had always considered myself an eclectic/relaxed home schoolers–especially compared to my friends who were all very structured, curriculum bound home schoolers. We [...]
By Heather
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Also posted in Application, Character development, Day in the Life, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Special Needs, Struggles, Thoughts, Unschooling
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Tagged home education, how I got here, interest led learning, learning, Unschooling
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August 22, 2008 – 9:36 pm
Peter and I had an interesting conversation yesterday after a friend told him why she didn’t like homeschooling (at least the way we do it). She said she thought homeschoolers aren’t challenged enough, that if something is hard, they just don’t do it. He wondered what I thought. We had a great conversation, and I [...]
By Jena
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Also posted in Application, Encouragement, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Personality, Thoughts, Unschooled Kids, Unschooling
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Tagged definiteions, education, interest led learning, Unschooling
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August 19, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Well, I’m half-way through the book! Would be farther, but it didn’t arrive until almost dinner yesterday. Needless to say I didn’t end up cooking. And now UberDad wants a turn, so I thought I’d finish a reply to a little comment about unschooling posted the other day. I rarely get questions from random visitors, [...]
August 16, 2008 – 1:22 pm
At three thirty every afternoon a dingy yellow school bus rambles past our house. My oldest and I are invariably working on math lessons while the little ones sleep, or, at least, are in their room supposed to be asleep. My son gazes wistfully out of the window wishing he could be finished. Then I [...]
August 15, 2008 – 12:55 pm
This is the only time of year that I get antsy and start worrying about unschooling. I’d be so interested in hearing about how you encouraged learning with younger kids. Or did you just let them play until they came and asked? I find mine haven’t been asking much lately and I worry it’s something [...]
By Jena
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Also posted in Application, Books, Character development, Encouragement, Favorite Resources, How They Learn, Learning Styles, Struggles, Thoughts, Unschooling
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Tagged interest led learning, learning, Unschooling
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August 15, 2008 – 12:34 pm
In a recent discussion, Marnellie asked me what I did at the beginning of homeschool. She was surprised when I mentioned never teaching my children the alphabet. Our lessons have not included A is for Apple worksheets, or practicing the alphabet song. So how did my children learn letter names and ask others to sing along? A is for [...]
