Finding Your Homeschool Style Trailblazing Homeschool

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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