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Home Educating this week

 Home educating, unlike school educating, looks different each day. I mean we do have routines - morning routine, chickens, cleaning, and laundry - but the details of each day are unique, depending on activities scheduled, energy levels, motivation, interests, and so much more. 

This week we have activities planned: grocery shopping, a trip to the library, book club, a hiking meet-up, park day, and game day; but we also have a lot of free time to do whatever we choose. Lessons are planned for math, copy work (language arts), Newsademic (current events), the human body work book. We may or may not get to them each and every day. And that's ok. Life is so much more  than workbooks.

Like this morning, while I am writing up this blog post, Isabelle is in her room listening to a Fabulous Five story on CD from the library, while she is getting dressed and making her bed (ok that's my plan she's actually playing with her dolls, getting them ready to go to book club).  In my version of things she would have her morning routine done, the chickens would be fed, brekkie would already be eaten, and we would be at the library returning books and selecting new ones. But does it really matter? I mean, in the big scheme of things, does it really matter? No, I don't think it does.

Yesterday was different though. Yesterday looked like this:

Brekkie
A game or 3 of King Paper over brekkie

And then on to some maths...
I recently came across a few of these living books for maths at the library

Sorting skills..
Library books being sorted into read and ready to return, want to read, and return without reading

Handcraft skills...
Learning to tie square knots by making a macrame' beaded bracelet

Science...
Learning about the blood vessels

Copywork (Language arts).....


Current events and Geography (map skills)
Map activity included with the fortnightly children's newspaper Newsademic that we subscribe to

So yes, we can afford to do our learning in a non-school looking way today.

How does your learning look today?

Cheers!
Ann





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