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 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 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