• homeschooling,  Uncategorized

    A Day in the Life: Learning Through Unschooling

    If you follow my blog, you already know we homeschool.  But you might of wondered why I never talk about curriculum or share pictures of us doing workbooks. The answer is, we don’t follow curriculum and workbooks are few and far between! We are registered as traditional (parent led homeschooling), but we would fall more into the relaxed homeschooler / unschooler (child led) category.  I even came across recently a new to me learning style that we unknowingly incorporate into our homeschool due to our love of the outdoors and nature hikes – forest school. So if we’re not sitting down at a desk or table each day to learn,…

  • homeschooling,  kids

    So what do we do all day?

    Well the first 6 weeks of homeschooling has flown by!  So far it has been about adjusting to schedule changes, organizing, searching for resources and ideas and wondering if this is really going to work out.  Guess what?  I think it will! A walk in the woods on a fall day I’m a work from home mom and my workload has doubled recently and I’ve also had to make the adjustment of going into the office twice a week.  My husband works Tuesday – Saturday, so I go into the office on Mondays while he’s home with the kids.  This gives him some great one on one time with them…