I enjoyed your piece at Remote Family! We incorporate elements of unschooling and also elements of more structured pedagogies into our homeschooling; in fact, we sometimes turn to unschooling for a period when things are particularly stressful or busy in our lives. On a yearly basis, this means that we always unschool from the beginning of April until the end of the school year; it's a great time full of outings and interest-led projects after many months of diligent studying. But I also sometimes do it for a week here or there.
I was just discussing with a friend today how it can be helpful just to shake things up from time to time. Whatever’s working well can eventually get a bit stale if we keep at it for too long. A change is as good as a rest as they say! When we were all ill recently I loved seeing the old unschooling ways creeping back. Everything in moderation, I think.
Yes; it's kind of like the sick day I described. Lots of unschooling-type things happened that day that were really good! But then when well again, we go back to our loose loop schedule of making sure we vary our subjects and get regular practice with skills (reading/writing/math). It's a nice balance.
I am so pleased that you are all learning kings and Queens and dates. I'm the only need in our family who can do any of that stuff, and I'm a bit hazy on some dates. But it is such a useful bit of scaffolding for the whole of British history. Try the mnemonic my Dad taught me, always in my head 'Willy, Willy, Harry, Stee, Harry Dick John Harry 3'...its a great help
Oh, and thank you for your kind links to my work!
I enjoyed your piece at Remote Family! We incorporate elements of unschooling and also elements of more structured pedagogies into our homeschooling; in fact, we sometimes turn to unschooling for a period when things are particularly stressful or busy in our lives. On a yearly basis, this means that we always unschool from the beginning of April until the end of the school year; it's a great time full of outings and interest-led projects after many months of diligent studying. But I also sometimes do it for a week here or there.
I was just discussing with a friend today how it can be helpful just to shake things up from time to time. Whatever’s working well can eventually get a bit stale if we keep at it for too long. A change is as good as a rest as they say! When we were all ill recently I loved seeing the old unschooling ways creeping back. Everything in moderation, I think.
Yes; it's kind of like the sick day I described. Lots of unschooling-type things happened that day that were really good! But then when well again, we go back to our loose loop schedule of making sure we vary our subjects and get regular practice with skills (reading/writing/math). It's a nice balance.
I am so pleased that you are all learning kings and Queens and dates. I'm the only need in our family who can do any of that stuff, and I'm a bit hazy on some dates. But it is such a useful bit of scaffolding for the whole of British history. Try the mnemonic my Dad taught me, always in my head 'Willy, Willy, Harry, Stee, Harry Dick John Harry 3'...its a great help