We’ve never had a set area for a study. We do our learning throughout the whole home and we do our writing work at the kitchen table or the computers. However, we do have various study area’s so that’s why I included this page.
There are seven of us here at the moment . . . Dad (John), Mum (Susan) Damian, ‘Miss A’ , ‘Miss R’, John and ‘Master C’ . This is our 12th year of learning at home. I have attempted to ‘shortlist’ some of the helpful materials that we have used successfully although don’t place a lot of importance upon curricula; relationships are more important.
At the end of each year, John and I like to spend a little time in prayer for our family as a whole and also for the individual children. As the children mature we also ask them to spend time in prayer. Then, at the beginning of each year, we like to consider what subjects are most important and how we’d like to attempt to cover them. Sometimes, one child may study something that another child will not due to their interests and gifts or weaknesses. This is one of the things that I lost like about home-based-learning.
Although I have learned a lot from Charlotte Mason, I don’t adhere to the methods strictly. I used to try, but ended up being confused and our home was not a harmonious one as I struggled to mold our family into shapes that were not *us*. Thankfully, God showed me a way out of this. I have also learned a lot from other popular homeschool methods like ‘natural learning’ and unit studies and even ‘school at home’. Yes, for a person as undisciplined and easily distracted as I am there is something I can glean from a traditional school-at-home approach. I guess I could describe our family as “eclectic, thematic, literature loving, natural learners who are trying to cultivate good study habits while pursuing our interests in a Spirit-led way”.
There are some subjects where we will employ the use of textbooks and others where we simply read good, living books. We use textbooks for maths and science and sometimes, English, whereas we enjoy living books for history, geography, nature study and fine arts.
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- Educational Philosophy
- English
- Fine Arts
- HS Efficiency
- High School
- History-Geography
- Lifestyle of Learning
- Poetry
- Unit Studies
Meandering through marriage, motherhood and mess as a child of God. Married to Beloved for over 20 years. Five children later and I”m still having a ball!
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