So this is actually a hard post to write…how do I talk about what homeschooling looks like when we haven’t schooled all week? It’s the subject of this week’s virtual Curriculum fair hosted by hosted by Susan @ Homeschooling Hearts & Minds. Last we we talked about our reasons to homeschool.
What does homeschooling look like? I suppose it depends on the week.
Give us a household illness and homeschooling looks like three people supporting each other as we recover from the flu which has left us with no brains and little stamina.
Give us a field trip and you’ll find three people out of the house, taking pictures and making notes as we learn this history of our past, the how-to’s of how a business works, ask questions of how plants grow, experience the wonder of the world God created.
Give us a computer and we learn engineering, math, science, history, language arts, and so much more. Give us the power of youtube and ant farms are built, history is learned, science is experienced and geography broadened.
Give us a work book and we know we can move on page after page, writing, journaling, equating, documenting, filling in spaces, learning, growing, becoming someone more…
Give us books to read and our lives are filled with imagination, questions, wonder, knowledge and so much more.
Give us a co-op and you’ll find anger and laughter, learning and teaching, friendship and fun, stretching and growing and being more than we already are.
Give us a messy house and you will find us cleaning, working, renovating, tidying, rearranging, selling, boxing, and decluttering.
Give us bunnies and you will find us undertaking animal management, biology, compassion, building, carpentry, gardening, growing, blogging and all things rabbity.
Give us people and friendships will be made, toleration achieved, opinions challenges, games played, feelings hurt and felt well in abundance. Cooperating, challenging, growing, helping, healing, and fellowship deepening.
Give us a blog and research, and joy, and friendships will blossom.
Give us publication companies and reviews, reading, sharing of opinions and joy will abound. Frustration and learning how to be nice when something appeals not in the least. Commitments and timetables learned and mastered.
Give us the world…. and you will be totally surprised where it takes us.
Give it to us and we’ll fit it into our learning and our lives.
What will YOU give us?
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Note: all posts will be live after 8 am EST on Monday, Jan. 15th.
How Our Academic Co-op Completes Our Eclectic Homeschool by Susan @ Homeschooling Hearts & Minds
A Method to Our Madness by Michele @ Family, Faith and Fridays
Finding Our Homeschool Method by Christy @ Unexpected Homeschool
How We Homeschool by Amanda @ Hopkins Homeschool
Give Us…. by Annette @ A Net in Time
A day in our Home by Sarah@DeliveringGrace
Lit-Based Education: How We Homeschool by Debra @ Footprints in the Butter
Overhauling Our Homeschool – Adjusting our “How” to fit our “Why” by Sabrina Scheerer @ Kids, Crunch, and Christ
A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: Expectation Vs. Reality by Leah @ As We Walk Along the Road
How Charlotte Mason Transformed Our Homeschool by Brittney @ Mom’s Heart
Captain’s Log, Supplemental – Our Homeschool Days by Kym @ Homeschool Coffee Break
How we get it done. by Kim @ Good Sweet Love
How to Organize Daily Curriculum with the School Cart by Jeniffer @ Thou Shall Not Whine
Learning For LIfe by Lori H @ At Home: where life happens
Eclectic Homeschooling: When It All Comes Together by Jen @ A Helping Hand Homeschool
A Typical Day? by Lizzy @ Peaches@Home
This is the Way We Do Our School, So Early in the Morning by Laura @ Four Little Penguins
A Little of This and a Little of That: Eclectic Homeschooling by Laura O @ Day by Day in Our World
Still Classically Educating After All These Years by True North Homeschool Academy
So what exactly is Life Led Homeschooling? by Dana @ Life Led Homeschool
The way we learn ~ 2018 Virtual Homeschool Fair by Jacquelin @ A Stable Beginning
Our Homeschool Routine by Joelle @Homeschooling For His Glory
Homeschool Methods – 8 Tips for the Journey by Kristen @ Sunrise to Sunset
I love this so much!! Such a great picture of how homeschoolers can adapt and learn and grow no matter what situations arise. Life doesn’t always go as we’d like, and homeschooling isn’t always picture-perfect, but for the most part we make the most of what we’ve got to work with.
Thanks Kym. It was fun to put together thinking of everything and how it affects us
I’m amazed at all of the resources available at schoolhouseteachers.com !
i know, it’s a good resource eh?
This is such a great blog! I love the focus on ‘giving.’
Thank You
Great Thoughts!
thank you Dawn
Great post! You’ve shown so well how homeschooling is a lifestyle of learning, supporting each other and growing together!
thank you. 🙂
Lovely look at a life of learning adapted to whatever is currently happening. Looking for opportunities and grasping the life you are given. I love this!
Thanks! It was fun to put together.