Category: homeschool
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Homeschool: learning how to learn
There are only a few goals I have for my kids’ education, long-term. The list is simple (but not easy): 1- I want them to know and love the Lord. 2- I want them to grow into responsible adults who look for ways to serve others. 3- I want them to know how to learn…
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Relaxed Homeschooling: Kathryn’s view
Kathryn has been homeschooled since kindergarten, but she has friends and step-siblings who have attended (or still attend) public school — and she’s still 100% on board with homeschool. The biggest pluses for her: A) she gets a big say in what she studies, and B) she can keep on snoozing while the bus carrying…
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Springtime Homeschooling {+ Volvo love}
Those of you who don’t live around here may not know there are actually five seasons in Georgia: summer (by far the longest of the seasons), fall (delightful), winter (often with nary a snowflake to be seen), spring (beautiful but usually too short), and pollen (wedged right in the middle of spring). During this season,…
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Relaxed Homeschooling: Core Phase for Young Learners
I believe young kids benefit from very relaxed, unschoolish, interest-led learning, and a delayed start to structured academics. In the Leadership (or Thomas Jefferson) Education model I’ve been discussing, this is the Core Phase of learning. Our primary goals during these Core Phase years are: to encourage learning in an unstructured way to teach what…
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Spring Nature Study: Fairy Garden
My younger kids don’t really get the concept of seasons in more than a very broad way, so we’ve been working on that. For instance, they are convinced winter is ALWAYS cold and snowy; not always true here in Georgia! They’ve got the summer-is-hot concept pretty well, but what about spring? That gets confusing: one…