Methods

[TsonikiCB]

Considering this is our first year - our first week! - of homeschooling, I admit I'm doing what I *think* I should be doing. That is a few worksheets and actual "we are doing school now" time. Trust me, that's not like me at all. :laugh: I envisioned nothing like school hours but my husband can't get the school structure out of his head (check my other post, I have a question there too!)

I've spent the past couple of hours researching homeschooling methods ~ and my question to you (whoever wishes to answer) is how did you pick the method you are using?

I'm not concerned about not knowing what method I am using right now, we just started and my daughter is barely in kindergarten. I do have a couple of ideas and figure when something is right, it will just click.

But there is also a part of me wanting to know right now just to satisfy my husband's thinking.

Thanks for your input. :)

[Dianna]

I've spent the past couple of hours researching homeschooling methods ~ and my question to you (whoever wishes to answer) is how did you pick the method you are using?


Tsoniki, I'll answer about your husband in another post, but wanted to answer this part of your question here. My method varies from year to year, month to month, and sometimes even day to day. It all depends on what's going on in our lives, and what works best for each child at that time.

We first started out very structured, went to totally unschooling, and from then on have used a mixture. (We've been homeschooling for 15+ years.) At the end of last school year, through the summer, and right now, my children have been unschooling and it has worked well. Since things are getting busier in other areas of our lives, and we work better with some structure when we have a lot of things going on, we'll probably go to a more structured schedule soon (when we get back from Disney, I think). As far as kindergarten goes, I didn't do anything different than I did before for any of my children - I just read to them, let them watch educational TV & videos, talked about things, created things, etc. We don't start adding structured stuff until first grade, and then very little.

I hope this helps, and I hope other people answer so you can get a variety of perspectives.

Warmly,
Dianna

[TsonikiCB]

That's what I think would work for us as well Dianna - not doing anything different with kindergarteners, would that be considered unschooling? :lol:

[Dianna]

It would definitely be relaxed homeschooling, but to be unschooling it would need to be child-led, too. The learning experiences would have to be her idea, not yours. If so, then you're unschooling. :smile2:

Dianna