Tag: Leadership Education
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Elementary Homeschool Curriculum Plans
We have two little learners in our home this year: five year old Jem and seven year old Scout. That puts both of them in the Core Phase of learning. Read more about that in this post but in short, Core Phase looks like a whole lot of just being a kid: playing, listening to…
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Homeschool High School Ocean Study
Last week I talked about how we do homeschool planning in this relaxed but Leadership Education-influenced homeschool. Now I’m sharing specifics about what we’ll be studying and the resources we plan to use. Before I start: Yes, Kathryn was 7th grade last year. But I’m considering this year high school because she’s capable of learning…
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Homeschool planning for relaxed leadership education
There is a baggie full of vermiculite in my refrigerator right now. I didn’t even know what vermiculite was until Kathryn asked to go buy it. She’s had such success with growing maple trees from seeds that she wanted to do it with redbud trees, too, but didn’t know how. So she researched it, recruited…
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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…