Finding Your Homeschool Style

In this episode, we are reviewing the 6 most popular homeschool
styles: Traditional, Classical, Charlotte Mason, Unit Study,
Unschool, and Eclectic. Our goal for walking through these styles
is to expose you to them and help you begin to find your own
homeschool style. What we have discovered is that most families
will start with one style and may end up in a totally different
style as they move through their own homeschool journey.


We talk specifically about the evolution of our own homeschool
style over the last five years of homeschooling.


Quotes from this Episode:


“I think one thing I appreciate about the classical model is they
don't underestimate the capability of small children, that small
children can learn a lot. And they can memorize things, and not
in a militant, forceful way, but they do try to make it
enjoyable.”


“I know a lot of people use Charlotte Mason inspired stuff when
they're teaching multiple grade levels. So like for us, you know,
we've got sixth grade, first-grade, pre K, and then a couple of
tagalongs. And so trying to engage that age span, yeah, it's not
always easy.”


“What I like about unit studies is typically, you give your kids
some agency in deciding what they want to learn. So you don't
necessarily say All right, we're doing a unit on this. You go
'Okay, guys, what are you curious about? What do you want to
learn about’ Let's dive into that and then pick a unit.”


“I'm not going to claim to even be close to an expert on
unschooling because let's be real, we don't unschool We are not
hardcore unschoolers at all, but the main focus of unschooling is
child-led learning, so completely child-directed, they pick what
they want to learn about, and they pick how they want to learn.”


“Honestly, the first few years of homeschooling is going to be an
experiment, you are not going to start homeschooling and go, this
is the exact style, this is what's gonna work best for us. I
mean, you can think that you can go ahead and put those
rose-colored glasses on, But then reality is going to hit and
somebody's going to hate whatever you picked.”


“Utilize the free tools at your disposal. You know, there are
free samples of curriculum, all that kind of thing to help you
kind of hone in on your style. Or you may end up being eclectic
like us now, what does it mean to be eclectic, it means that you
use a mix of all or some or all of the different styles that
we've already talked about.”


“What you do with your older kids, you may not do with your
younger kids because it doesn’t work for them or fit their
personalities.”


Mentioned in this episode:



Homeschool On Style Quiz


Well Trained Mind


Unschooling


Gather Round Unit Study Curriculum


Simply Charlotte Mason



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