Interested to know.

[oneboy3girls]

WHat have your DC been learning or taught today or in the past week?

Fractions, weights and measures, counting, multiplying, division.

sight reading, music theory, a couple of new pieces, aural practice, 3 new scales. Contained in 2.5 - 4 hours music practice per day.

Punctuation, journal and diary writing, reading, talking and socialising,

World War one and the history of songs.

Revised living things.

I think that's what I can think of the top of my head.
I'm not sure you could list everything that somebody has learned.

Liquids changing state when frozen/removed from freezer, recognising words, colours, letters, using the toilet, erm... diggers... He's 3 next month! We're just starting to get into the HE mentality in preparation for all the looks when we tell people he's not at pre-school!

AGnu

I love this time of the year as dd is constantly asked "have you not gone back yet"? She says "Back where"?

socialising (parentally facilitated i.e. hanging out with a bunch of other HE families at the park)

working on roller skating skills (parentally facilitated i.e. I took the skates to some good tarmac for them to use)

literacy development (entirely child led)

Experimenting with the texture of sand on skin; using sand as an artistic medium; playing with vehicles in sand

PE, including balancing (alone and in pairs)

2 times table (yeah, we all know the 2 times table, but it's still fun to shout out how many wheels a big lorry has when we pass one)

developing narratives, visual imagination, literacy, fine motor co-ordination, computer skills (all child led; aka making cartoons)

That's just this morning.

Oh, and international relations (there were 4 non-UK nationalities in the bunch of people we were hanging out with, plus a further nationality they are encountering this afternoon)

Ommmward

Will you stop doing this please? No carry on really.
I am constantly amazed by your ability to turn every situation into a learning opportunity.
I guess there's no hope for me because if it isn't obvious or nearly obvious I don't see it.
I know we have a more structured approach to you but we are open for non structured/autonomous approach but after 2 years, I still don't know how you do it.
Maybe its because we have older ds who went all the way through school and I can't seem to shift the experience.
Anyway, keep posting I love hearing about your learning opportunities.

Thing is, it's my children, and other people's children, who are teaching me to see the world this way. My job is just to take them to interesting places where there are interesting people, answer their questions, and provide them with bits and pieces of equipment when needed. They do all the rest themselves - left to themselves, without having to worry about survival (i.e. feeding themselves by hunting and gathering, fighting off sabre toothed tigers etc), humans are just wonderfully creative and curious.

Maths, maths and more maths (ds1 loves it and can never get enough).

Ds1 finished reading the Illiad and started the odyssey.

Modern languages (chatted to them in a couple of them).

Music.

History of Islam (tied in to something they heard on IS).

Geography (tied in with the history).

PE (went climbing!)

That was today.

Oh, I missed languages, dd is doing Italian and French, still asking for Latin but she has to wait a bit as my purse strings won't take the lessons and dh can't remember anything apparently

Ds1 is asking for ancient Greek. We fob him off.

One day, my son, one day.

Today=
Socialising with other home ed children on nature walk, with map reading
Cooking - weights/measures, liquids, temperature etc.
building and designing With Lego.
Maths- division
Continued writing his story about his ship which he has drawn, and is sailing everyday around the world. (Currently avoiding icebergs somewhere south of Australia!)
Read about the Saxons.
Went to his dance class.
Paid and received change when shopping.
Practiced his guitar.

All entirely entirely led by him (except for group and class facilitated by me and other home ed families) he also has 2 younger siblings home all the time, who he spends time with. I take a autonomous approach so everything he has done he has asked and wanted to do independent of any leading from me.

Liara - how old is you ds? Mine is learning Latin but I have some text/learning books from when I studied Ancient Greek ( archaeologist here ) they are from teenager age really.

He's almost 8.

I just feel ancient Greek is biting off more than we can chew right now, they need to speak two different latin languages due to family and where we live, and I feel introducing another is too much.

Once he is really solid in the ones he's got we will definitely tackle Latin and Greek, he is obsessed with ancient Greece. He'd love to meet an archeologist! :) How is your ds getting on with Latin (how old is he, btw?)

Mama1980 love the idea of your son writing about his boat sailing across the world! Very imaginative and educational! I have a large world map on my wall so maybe we can make paper boats and sail them to different countries & learn something new!

What is a good age to begin Latin, does anybody know?
It seems if you find a school that offers it, it is more often not language based and more history.
We really can't afford to buy into Maximus although it does look great for younger children.

Liara, I expect our boys would get on well!

My son is 6 and absolutely obsessed with history and what I do. I finally gave in and let him begin learning Latin as he kept on and on.
We visit a lot of historic sites and he wants to read tomb inscriptions etc we spent several painstaking hours in Westminster abbey a few weeks ago while he copied out monuments for translation.
I use the maximus books etc in combination with bits from my own uni textbooks. Tbh I thought him a bit young and tried to dissuade him but he reads very well and I'm actually finding it's helping him with verbs/nouns/sentence structure etc.

Thinking2014- that's exactly what we have a world map on the wall he plots his course on etc. it's great because he's having to think really carefully, look up the type of problems/creatures he might find. My ds is totally caught up in it at the moment.

I'm sure they would, provided your ds is prepared to be Hector/Achilles/Diomedes/Apollo as necessary

All of you sound a damn sight more organised than me, I'm feeling lazy!
This week we've done
Revision of basic maths skills
Looked at tally marks and graphs
Learned a bit about sharks
Baked a cake
Weighed fruit and looked at size/weight comparisons
Visited a local museum with friends
"fished" at the pond
Fallen in the pond
Visited hospital to see the dermatologist
Learned a bit about the differences between mummy and daddy's cars (huge diesel 7-seater v piddly little old fiesta)

And that's about it, nothing happens until I drag him away from his kindle at the moment.

nousername

What is so bad about your list then?
I think it sounds very good and if your ds is happy and learning that's the important thing.
Sometimes we are very organised and others we appear to have done very little.
When I can be bothered or am feeling worried we aren't doing enough which isn't often now, I will compare nc on various subjects and find we are doing much more than it appears.

Following this, what a great ideas thread! DH will love the ship idea regardless of the DCs :D

Haha nigglenaggle

I did feel a little overwhelmed by the amounts on this thread but if you think about it, a day out with the kids (or even a day in) and you will end up teaching them things & learning new things... Today just by watching a cartoon on animals we learnt there's an animal in Africa called the Honey Badger. Who knew

Anyway my point is I'm reassuring myself that learning will happen naturally, atm my daughter is very keen on creating different things using whatever is around her, so I'm letting her explore her arts and crafts side, there's plenty of time to fit other things in when she's ready

The joy of H.ed eh?

DD not done much today but her and dh are sat in the conservatory with binoculars waiting for the appearance of our visiting Hedgehog.
She put milk out and has just read you mustn't do this and they prefer slugs.
We now know why it has chosen our garden.
So project hedgehog on Friday night.

thinking - it's all a question of how you interpret the things that just happen in the day - I am very good at putting a post hoc educational spin on them, but really it's just hanging out in the park with a bunch of other families and responding to a child when they need attention, but otherwise talking to the other Mums. :)

Yes definitely agree.
We aren't particularly autonomous educators, but have on occasion over the past couple of years naturally experienced this like tonight with the Hedgehog or egog as dh once found over a picture in a primary school Its lovely for us to see her wanting to do things independently without being told or asked. Having being envious of the autonomous camp I feel really happy tonight, although I wish she'd go to bed.