I think that's what we are. We're not unschoolers, really, although there are days we don't do "sit down" work and I'm fine with that. I think fresh air and sunshine at this age are the best tonic. They'd rather be outside getting filthy anyway. Or, they can learn "lifeskills" and help around the house.

I have a structured time during the day when we sit at the table and do mostly oral lessons, about 2-3 hours at the most. It's mainly because I am such an unstructured person that we'd never get around to doing anything if I didn't have a routine. My girls would rather play with their little dinosaurs than read books (although the eldest has been known to read on her own what interests her).

My homeschooling consists mostly of reading aloud to them, either from "school" books or "living" books. I am totally immersed in teaching them, which I enjoy right now, but will slowly wean them to self-directed stuff as they get older. The only assigned work they do this year is copywork, and that's to keep them at the table while I do their 5yo brother's reading lesson on the couch. (And to get a little handwriting practice and scripture memorization in, of course.)

Everything I bought for this year is scripted. They read their readers aloud to me and restate (narrate) what they've read at the end. I read to them from First Language Lessons and they "tell back" the repetition or memorization part. Once weekly, we do a fun activity, like blowing bubbles, and relate it to a spiritual truth. I drill math with Professor B's charts, or lead them through a practice worksheet, or orally through a new lesson, demonstrating on a small whiteboard. I read history aloud from Story of the World, or Story of the Romans and they narrate back. (I look more to my eldest for narration; 6yo is not always clued in.) If it's a science day, I just read from the teacher's book and show them how to do the activity sheet.

Today, we got a late start and did it all after lunch. They did copywork. Anna Kate is copying verses from Proverbs and Olivia is copying practice D'Nealian words ("m" words today). We did readers. Anna Kate's was about the earthworm's anatomy. (Ten hearts! And if you keep them out of the earth for a while, they become more transparent and you can see their circulatory system. Wild.) For language, we finished our letter to the military friend. Math was another "snatch" game with Prof. B's charts (9 snatches 1 from the smaller number to become "teen," 8 snatches two, 7, three, and so on). Then I tapped the 9+ higher addition facts on another chart and they gave the answers, for drill practice. In SOTR, we read about Brutus, who overthrew the wicked Tarquins. In SOTW, we read about Asoka, who gave up conquering by war and instead applied peaceful principles to his rule. And we read a Buddhist fable. I just looked up pictures on the 'net that we could put on our timeline to represent those. We'll probably do that tomorrow.

It's an intense couple of hours, but we get a lot in and I feel like we "did something." I very much enjoy learning with them. I'd never learned much about the ancient world in school, so I'm as fascinated by history as Anna Kate is. Language and history are the most fun, to me. And teaching DS5 to read.