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Moms Just Wanna Have Fun

by Amida
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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 [...]

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curriculum

Interest-Driven Curricula and an Open Mind (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Hillary
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Written by contributor Hillary Boucher of Infinitely Learning Children’s ages: 6, 3, and 10 months Educational Philosophy Influences: Unschooling, Enki, Eclectic Our children are quite young and so far interest-driven learning has been all we’ve needed. Philosophically, we are what is described as “unschooling.” I am not particularly attached to unschooling as a rule-set as [...]

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Relaxed Elementary Education (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Renee
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Written by contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY Ages of my children: 12, 10, and 8 Educational Philosophies I pull from: Leadership Education, Literature-Based, Charlotte Mason, Unschooling When Jamie first proposed this series I thought, “That will be easy to write. We don’t use much.” Then I saw all the questions from the introductory post and [...]

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Resources for Early Learning (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom Ages of my children: 7.5, 6.5, and 6 Educational Philosophies I Pull From: Waldorf, Leadership Education, Unschooling When I had two children, both still toddlers, I planned out their entire education for the next 15 years. I spent hours drawing charts, researching, [...]

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Don’t Know Much About History Resources (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Amida
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Written by Simple Homeschool contributor Amida of Journey Into Unschooling Ages of my children: 12, 9, 4, and 5 months Educational Philosophies I Pull From: Unschooling, Eclectic History was never my strong point. I blame it on all the instructors who pretty much killed the subject for me, like elementary school teachers who had us [...]

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family time

Homeschooling and Moving

by Renee
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Written by contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY. Spring is a time for many things. A time for yard sales, planting the garden, and riding bikes. It’s also the time of year many families are preparing to move. ‘Round the corner, across country, or out of the country. I know our family is not alone as [...]

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