In case you’ve missed it, we love books around here. I think the idea of being able to justify buying a bunch of books may have sparked my initial interest in homeschooling. I love seeing what other homeschooling families are up to, especially the novels and picture books they are reading as well as the encyclopedias and…
Today I want to tackle three big questions: what is unschooling? how do you unschool? and do unschooled kids learn anything? A year ago we were very much leaning towards the idea of homeschooling and there were so many things I didn’t know about homeschooling (there still are!), at the time I thought unschooling was…
In the last few weeks we have really been taking advantage of some great digital resources in our homeschool. I’ve got a post in the works sharing a variety of them but today I wanted to focus in on one resources we have been loving. We are a fairly digital family; my husband earns his…
I wanted to do something different today and just show some photos of glimpses into our homeschool days. No two days look alike in our homeschool and I think that’s partly the beauty of it. Oh, also, it is winter here right now (there is a decent winter storm going on as I sit here…
We’ve been giving this unschooling thing a go for a couple of weeks now and I wanted to share a little about it. Unschooling can be hard thing to learn about because it’s not like unschoolers have this hour-by-hour schedule you can just follow. Unschooling will look different every day and every week and will…
I’ve admitted this before, but I really did not have the best impression of homeschoolers growing up. First of all, there was hardly anyone that I knew that did it. And second, those that I did know were weird! These days I think there are some homeschoolers out there that are really changing the stereotype and…