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Homeschooling – how did we begin?

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Now that we’ve decided we are going to learn from home for the next year at least, we came to the question of how and where do we begin? The homeschooling quiz in a previous post slotted us as ‘unschoolers’ so going with that, we started planning for a year of unschool learning. I’ve said this before, neither am I an educator nor a teacher so my approach to home learning is purely as a parent. My learning approach is inspired by Waldorf and Reggio, both of which are play and art based philosophies that have suited our learning goals … Continue reading Homeschooling – how did we begin?

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Building Foundational learning skills in children, at home

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The kids have been home for almost two months and by all measures it seems like the idea of school that we have experienced so far will be vastly different in the post pandemic world. Schools are still working and teachers still need their jobs, they are doing everything they can to keep the system running and the children prepared for returning to the classrooms at some point. While initially it seemed like a great idea to move teaching online the reality has proven very different especially because it involves parental participation to a great extent which parents are not … Continue reading Building Foundational learning skills in children, at home