This blog will be a journal of sorts - more for me than anyone else - to keep a record of all the things my two children do each day as we live life and homeschool. Often it's hard to differentiate between the two as we seem to constantly blend everyday life and learning - and how can we not do that?? It is so natural when you have the mindset that every thing is a learning opportunity and you've see the evidence that kids want to learn and they will and do learn all the time, without being forced. It's very neat to see it happening.
I consider us to be eclectic homeschoolers. When Jude was younger, we were definitely unschoolers. Now that he is six, we have started to follow a curriculum while still doing our own learning thing the rest of the time. Though we certainly haven't stuck to the curriculum hard and fast. In another post, I'll detail the ways we're ahead and behind.
If we were institutional schoolers, Jude would have started kindergarten this past Fall. Audrey (age three) is preschool age and always joins in when we sit down to "do school." She enjoys joining in when she can on whatever Jude is doing. She also has her own workbooks and activities to do when she wants.
Even though my kids are only six and three years old, my homeschooling philosophy has already changed from what I thought it would be six years ago when we first started researching homeschooling. I'm sure things will change again and again as Jude and Audrey get older. That's what I love about homeschooling: we can adapt our methods, curriculum, activities, and schedule to suit our kids as they grow and change. There's no better way than that to give Jude and Audrey the best education possible!
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