Tag: unschooling
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A day in the life: one random Monday
What does a typical day in our household look like with homeschooling, one kid in school, and a mom working part-time outside the home? Keep in mind, we are (mostly) unschoolers. We make a point to fill our lives with good literature and big ideas. We explore our world whenever possible, and we believe real-life…
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Are we unschoolers?
When I started homeschooling twelve years ago, I knew I didn’t want our at-home learning to look like traditional school, but what I thought of as so radical at first was really stepping tentatively just outside the box. Kathryn was just five and we’d both been part of a busy preschool the year before, where…
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Unschooled kid vs. standardized test
As is probably obvious based on the fact I’ve been doing it for a dozen years, I’m a fan of homeschooling. I’m confident in the fact it works and doesn’t have to look at all like traditional school. This far into the journey, I rarely have doubts because there have been more times than I…
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Interest-led nature study on the coast
Y’all. I had big plans this year for nature study. We were going to do Barb’s awesome outdoor hour challenges like I did back when Kathryn was little. We were all going to have nature journals and update them regularly. We’d even incorporate art lessons with our nature journals. It would be Elementary Nature Study…