Here’s a little history learning in action with a project based approach to home education. As someone who never liked the subject of history in school… I’m actually happy to be able to share this… as facilitating it with our daughter, has shown me how fascinating it can actually be. Which is what inspired me… Continue reading A Homeschooling Writer’s Journey
Category: Life Skills
Little Life Lessons – A 10 Week Road trip
A couple of weeks ago, we returned from 10 weeks and 10,000 km on the road. We travelled the East Coast of Australia as far as Cape Tribulation in Far north tropical Queensland. We had been researching and planning our way back south the whole trip up! It was the 2nd of August in the… Continue reading Little Life Lessons – A 10 Week Road trip
JOMO The Joy of Missing Out.
It's the end of July and we are about to set off on our next "learning journey" road schooling trip. The last several months we have been focusing on our blessings over the Winter. We have been getting cosy by our new wood fire for which we are so thankful! When not immersed in Mother… Continue reading JOMO The Joy of Missing Out.
To the notion of not being “enough”…
This is a question I have seen pop up for many new to homeschooling. It's something people face in many areas of life without a doubt but most often a feeing that comes from being schooled ourselves for many. Being in competition with one another is quite normal in a system of grading and testing… Continue reading To the notion of not being “enough”…
When faced with performance questions…
Recently I was asked if my 3 year old can write her name yet. As a default people pleaser, the drive to "perform" is literally something I personally have had to "de-school" myself on A LOT! I come from a family where on my mother's side, on which I had siblings... I was the over… Continue reading When faced with performance questions…
We are – Free To Learn
Have you read Free to Learn? I have been getting stuck into it and cannot recommend it highly enough! I am yet to pull quotes from it to share and quite frankly, It's been THAT great that I couldn't say some parts are more stand out than others... so I'm just going to say... It's… Continue reading We are – Free To Learn
Life Maths, Science, Health & History – Where are they not?
Today, we began looking at "numbers" out of curiosity born out of current world events. Now, I'm aware this doesn't fall under certain "pedagogies" for what a particular age is "supposed" to be learning... but as you may or may not know: we literally do what we want. If it feels right, we go with… Continue reading Life Maths, Science, Health & History – Where are they not?
The Bazaar Idea of Timed Targets (Grades)
How funny is it that a hundred years or so ago, a bunch of people, strangers to us, sat down and made up a bunch of learning targets to standardise education, declaring the hierarchy of specific subjects? These people never meeting our individual children or knowing how the world is today and what's important to… Continue reading The Bazaar Idea of Timed Targets (Grades)
The Old “Social Wellbeing” Concern About Homeschoolers
No, my children don't "miss out" on the social wellbeing that so many believe is only offered in school class rooms. In fact it's not the kind of restricted social interaction I seek for my children, limited to their own age for the majority of their childhood! What I seek for my children is a… Continue reading The Old “Social Wellbeing” Concern About Homeschoolers
More reasons to home educate… Thinking outside the box
“Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.” John Holt, How Children Learn “Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking… Continue reading More reasons to home educate… Thinking outside the box
Holistic Home Education 