If You Read Your Kids a Math Book… is a post about the importance of letting play unfold in your homeschool. I am also planning a series of posts highlighting how our family uses math picture books and play in our homeschool routine. Until then, I invite you to explore this post: I’m continually awed…
How Do You Measure Success?
It is interesting to compare how I used to feel in May and June, when I worked in schools and when my children were in school, to how I feel now, as a homeschooler. The two feelings are opposite. I am no longer counting Fridays and feeling frazzled, but I am embracing moments and having fun.
Respect Those Rabbit Holes: Surrender to Delight-Driven Learning
When I first started homeschooling, I was constantly thinking about all the things: Subjects Books Hours spent homeschooling daily Hours spent on each subject weekly Books read Progress I could go on and on and on. Sometimes, the kids would get off track. They would start talking about something else, something I had not pre-planned in my…
Learn Nothing Day 2015
Learn Nothing Day 2015 I’ve mentioned before that I consider our family to be unschool-leaning, but because I am homeschooling a quirky, asynchronous, PG/2E/full-of-OE little fella who loves curriculum, sometimes the unschoolers don’t see us as unschool-y. Regardless, we happily participated in a very unschool-y day: Learn Nothing Day. What is Learn Nothing Day? Learn Nothing Day is…
