What Kind of Homeschooler Are You?

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What Type of Homeschooler Are You?

Salvador Dali Melting clocks are not a problem in your reality. You are an unschooler. You will tolerate a textbook, but only as a last resort. Mud is your friend. You prefer hands-on everything. If your school had an anthem, it would be Dont Worry, Be Happy. Visit my blog: http://www.GuiltFreeHomeschooling.blogspot.com
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The only thing that gives me hope as I prepare to do this homeschooling thing is that DD is already teaching herself what she wants to learn. I'm actively postponing her learning to read and write until this fall when I can launch into the whole shebang, Waldorf style. DD wants to read and right NOW so she's undertaken to teaching herself how to write. It's uncanny.

I do believe in hands on. Reading stories then living them, learning by doing, that was how I learned best. I had to see it in 3D to "get" it. I don't know yet if DD is the same way, but whether she is or not, it'll be an adventure.

Anhata
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You've probably already thought of this, but if Josie likes to "play" school and you decide you want her to learn something specific, how about having her teach it to you in the classroom? It's such a standard exercise in traditional classrooms that it might seem too mold-fitting to you, but if you can deal with that, she might enjoy it.

No surprise there then.

These days, with DS being almost 15, he's almost completely autonomous. I do give him a bit of guidance, but basically he follows his interests.

Mr. Potato Head

You have your ideal of how things should look, but youre flexible enough to allow for change. You are not bothered by changing methods, mid-course if necessary. You use an eclectic combination of curriculum sources.

Yup, I'd say that's pretty accurate.

Lynn, I think your website idea is amazing!

When I was teaching a 6-8th grade class of 12 students, who were all over the map, that's kinda how I structured our day.

The kids met briefly with me in the morning to map out their day. They each had some daily have-to's that were based on their Learning Plan, (which was developed at the start of the year with input of equal weight from me, the parents, and the student).

Then they all did independent research projects which, by the end of the year, had to include science and social studies, writing, and art, but they had control over how to incorporate these. It seemed to work really well for them.

Sounds like you are setting up a very similar system. Cool.

I, too am Mr./Mrs. Potato Head.

We're all over the map this summer. Don't know if Josie is into Harry Potter, but Sophie is taking part in "Hogwarts Summer Correspondence School," which basically means assignments come from the Hogwarts professors. So far she's done a lot of language stuff for Charms and learned about vampire bats for care of magical creatures. Potions (aka chemistry) starts this week too. And astronomy later this summer. It's the school-iest school we do, because she will gladly take direct from Hogwarts.

Shaun
www.homeschoolblogger.com/shaunms

doesn't surprise me so far about where any of you fall in the homeschooling spectrum. I think most little girls like playing school at some point, with or without their little brothers. I played for ages with a friend teaching our soft toys, and coming up with elaborate assignments based on Noddy books!! I was probably about 9 actually, DD's age now. So don't worry about it, even if Josie's learning method is unschooling. Doesn't mean she can't enjoy some make believe. She might want to play at being a fireman or an astronaut or a footballer another day. The concern is that you see a conflict with her learning style and with your own teaching style. But this is make believe, and I don't really think there's a conflict.

must take that test, although I'm not homeschooling - might teach me something useful about myself!

Kerri.

The Hogwarts Summer Correspondence School comes from a bunch of homeschooling moms who made it all up themselves and posted everything they did in files on yahoo groups. If you join the yahoo groups you can steal shamelessly from their letters, registration forms, textbooks (yes, people have written entire textbooks!), lessons, etc.

Everyone does it differently. I took a Charms textbook and pick stuff out of it to assign. For care of magical creatures I make stuff up, but I believe there are lessons of all sorts you can steal from. I lucked into a huge stash of Harry Potter science kits, so those are the basis of our potions and astronomy, but there is a lot of online stuff.

There are tons of classrooms at this site, and you just join the yahoo group for the classrooms you want in order to access (or post) files.

Sophie just received a giant package by house elf last night: Hagrid assigned her to make a fairy house, take a picture, then lable the picture with the materials used. Snape has her starting with one of the science kits. And Professor Flitwick has assigned some concentration and memory exercises (including memorizing the Hogwarts school song). That last is a little experiment to see how memory work goes. Take a look at the Charms textbook -- it may really fit Josie's desire to do school-like stuff in an imaginative way. It is all about words -- word roots, origins of words (Vikings, Latin, etc.), word play. I will try to make up my own charm writing assignments to end the summer.

ETA: Everything goes back to Harry Potter: in the registration/welcome letter, Sophie learned that she needed to keep doing math, which is a prerequiste for Arithmancy, and Chinese counts for Muggle Relations. Look around the groups -- People are crazy creative about dressing up everything HP style.

Shaun
www.homeschoolblogger.com/shaunms

Actually I am a little surprised. But I see I am in good company here!

Shaun ~ love the Harry Potter idea!

Jana

and I'm Abe Lincoln apparently. Or Charlotte Mason, depending on how you read it! I didn't quite fit most of the otions exactly though. And the closest on the car journey thing was the conjugating of Latin verbs, since we usually play word games or geography based games in the car (like practising capital cities!). Might be just as well I let the school take them for a few hours each day to do some fun stuff!

Kerri.

We submitted our letter of intent to homeschool to the Board of Education last week. Currently, we're working on our Individual Home Instruction Plan (IHIP) as is required by New York State. We'll adopt a more formal approach in September - or at least, we'll make it look that way on paper to satisfy New York's requirements!

William (DS8.75) continues to learn by osmosis, and he amazes me. Last week we went to Remington Pond (nature area) on Fort Drum, and he was teaching me the names of the various water plants.

I'm excited and relieved to be on this journey. It's so nice to be joining other members of the TNH community in this quest to provide the absolute best for our families.

Rose

All these new homeschoolers -- is Lynn sending secret brainwaves to us? Watch out -- the rest of you may be next!

Shaun
www.homeschoolblogger.com/shaunms

I ran across this looking for unschooling sites and its great to find people that look at homeschooling the same way I do! I've never done blogs or anything like this before but then I've never encountered people so much like me! I look forward to reading more posts and maybe adding my own! Learning should be a natural state of existence!

I hope you'll explore around TNH more. We're a nice group -- and it sounds like three of us just decided to start homeschooling in the last several months! (Others have always planned to homeschool, or don't intend to at all.)

Shaun
www.homeschoolblogger.com/shaunms

I reckon that part of what makes homeschooling fit in so seamlessly with everything else over here is that it is the attitude towards learning being just another part of everything else. Those of us not homeschooling are mostly quite interested to hear what the homeschoolers get up to because it fits our overall approach to parenting, even if not all of us are homeschooling. It could quite easily have ended up being a site that banged on entirely about homeschooling, pushed it down everyone's throats and alienated non-homeschoolers. Despite being instrumental, I think, in many of the women here choosing to homeschool this site has never preached... not about anything really, but particularly not about homeschooling. Gently wheedled perhaps, but nothing more. Living the example is probably the closest.

Another little insight for me, triggered by someone else's post. Normal programming will resume shortly!

Kerri.

I agree Kerri. Though I don't plan to homeschool, I applaud those who do. I do think I "school" my kids at home though just as part of our daily lives, so I am always interested to hear what the homeschoolers are doing.