We will keep a blog of all of our home schooling experiences. Neither of us has any experience in schooling, but we feel confident (and anxious) and have researched things reasonably well. The idea is to mix some formal home schooling with lots of project work. The kids have already starting making lists of all the interesting projects they will be able to run with an abundance of forests, rock pools, beaches, shells, bee hives, vegetable plots, chickens, goats and other lifestock.
We will have internet conectivity and will be taking up our microscope, telescope and ant farm.
For those who aren't family we have three children to home school.
Skye is turning nine on the 10th of March of 2009.
Mila is turning five on the 10th of February of 2009.
Caleb is three years old and turns four in October of 2009.
It will be interesting to see what ahppens in reality. We are planning to spend two hours per day home schooling Skye (splitting the time between us)
Sonja will probably focus on teaching her numeracy and biology, while I will teach her literacy natural sciences.
The two younger ones will spend about four hours per day at the early learning centre that Sonja is busy setting up within the community.
Hi Everyone,
ReplyDeleteI am SO excited about your homeschooling adventure and the other HUGE adventures you are embarking on. We are the Mead family (my husband Leonard worked with Charles through the packing company)also homeschooling. May I suggest checking out http://www.selfdesign.com/ especially if you are setting up a community learning? They take the anxiety and angst out of homeschooling!
I wish you all the best and will follow you on the journey sending strength and support all the way!
Melissa