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Trailblazing Homeschool RJ and Melissa Whaley
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RJ and Melissa Whaley from Trailblazing Homeschool (formerly You Just Got Homeschooled) bring you a podcast all about homeschooling in the trenches. Learn from real-life homeschool families how to leave public school, how to homeschool, and how to find the best path to education for your own family. We cover topics like schedules and routines, homeschool curriculum, finding a homeschool community, and encouragement for when things get hard. RJ has been a teacher and educator for over 10 years and Melissa has been a homeschool mom for 5 years.
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Finding your Homeschool Vision
What's the difference between a mission statement and a vision? How do you make a homeschool plan that actually works for your family?
Join us in this conversation all about setting a vision for your homeschool plans, routines, and rhythms.
Follow along with the Homeschool Foundations Workbook here-> https://www.subscribepage.com/k1u1e
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All About Learning Styles Part 2
We hear a lot about learning styles in the world of education, but do we actually know what that means? We are exploring multiple facets of learning styles and going through three areas of this topic in part two of two on learning styles and how studying them can help you in both your homeschool and your family relationships as a whole. Understanding these areas will also help you clarify your homeschool vision and make it more customized to your individual children.
Get your Time Blocking Notepad here -> https://bit.ly/TrailTimeBlock
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All About Learning Styles Part 1
We hear a lot about learning styles in the world of education, but do we actually know what that means? We are exploring multiple facets of learning styles and going through three areas of this topic in part one of two on learning styles and how studying them can help you in both your homeschool and your family relationships as a whole. Understanding these areas will also help you clarify your homeschool vision and make it more customized to your individual children.
Enjoy this episode? Please leave a review and share it with a friend.
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Creating a Family Mission Statement
Today we are working through an important foundational step to a successful homeschool journey, creating a family mission statement. A family mission statement is a guiding document to help you make decisions in your family and homeschool journey.
This is the first exercise included in our Homeschool Foundations Workbook that you can download for free here.
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How many hours should we do school?
We are addressing a very common question in the homeschooling world, "How many hours should we do school?"
There probably isn't a new homeschool family that haven't asked this question, but you may not know that this is a controversial question. If you look in any homeschool group you will get a myriad of answers. We are giving you our perspective on the topic and how we analyze school time. If you haven't already listened to our episode called "Why leave public school?" That gives you more background on what the dey looks like in a public or traditional school classroom.
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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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