Never let your schooling interrupt your education.
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Heart of the Matter online homeschooling conference, coming up August 8-12. If you’re in need of some homeschooling encouragement, I hope you’ll check it out!
It’s too hot. The kids are cranky and we need to chill out. But I can’t help myself–no matter what we’re doing I see what we’re “learning”.
If you’re anything like me it’s thrilling to participate in everyday, organic learning. Watching my kids grow and learn inspires me.
But the hottest of days is a great reminder that rest and relaxation is an important part of being a whole learner.
Written by contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY.
This past spring all of us here at Simple Homeschool shared our curriculum choices. In my contribution to that series I talked about the curriculum we’ve used so far for elementary reading, writing, and math.
But of course there is a lot more to our homeschool routine than just those subjects.
Today I want to share how we teach science to our elementary aged children in the context of every day life, without a set curriculum.
I have found science to be one of the easiest “subjects” to teach our children.
I know it will get trickier as they get into the higher grades and so we plan to start using curriculum sometime during the junior high years.
But so far interest-led science has worked well for us.
Here are the four methods we’ve used.
Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom
I had an incredible summer blogging sabbatical, and totally enjoyed the guest posters and contributors who shared in this space while I was away. I know you did, too!
It’s nice to “see” you again here, and I have a question to ask:
Do any of you ever find the grumbles have infiltrated your homeschool?
I hope it isn’t just me. There are different types of grumbles: sibling rivalry grumbles, complaints about chores, hearing ourselves grumble about our own role, or grumbles about schoolwork in general.
Recently we’ve entered a season of sibling rivalry grumbles, which is a subject for another post! But as I’ve been learning how to deal with this newest test of a mother’s fortitude, it has helped me to remember that we’ve gone through other trying seasons and come out of them successfully.
Take this winter, for example. I found myself in a bit of a rut, and really not enjoying the day-to-day routine and the grumbles that accompanied it. Hoping for some inspiration, I flashed an email off to my friend, contributor here, and Waldorf educator, Sarah Baldwin of Bella Luna Toys.
It went something like this:
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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
Though we’re not always consistent with including it, nature study is one of our favorite ways to spend some of our homeschool day.
It’s fun, relaxing, interest-led learning in a real-world, hands-on environment.
Following are five tips for making nature study an anticipated part of your family’s education (because you’ll be learning, too, Mom):
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Written by contributor Amida of Journey into Unschooling.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret.
Some days, we don’t do any school-related work at all.
These aren’t planned in advanced and they aren’t penciled in on the calendar. These days are brought on by my own inspirations and happen as spontaneous as those thunderstorms in the middle of summer. I can feel it creeping up on me, just not sure when it will hit.
Maybe I’ve been leafing through some really cool craft books, or surfing a little too late into the night, and something pops out at me that I just have to make. Then out comes the sewing machine, cutting board, and the kitchen table becomes sewing central.
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