What are fellow Home Educators learning at the moment?

[milou2]

We have been deschooling for 4 weeks now, including half term with my older son here too.

I have noticed that the emphasis of my life has altered to finding out about things I want to find out about. House work and calling the vet has been something I do inbetween times.

So I'm sort of leading by example, enjoying finding out about home education plus reading loads of books from the library, doing maths workbooks (I chose them I can use them!), using the brain training we got for my secondary schooled first son....

I don't do so much of the I've got to get you to do x now, less pressurising. So I like me more.

My dd (8) watched a documentary about George 111 today, then wrote a page about what she'd remembered. Then she wrote out a family tree to explain to me where he was in relation to Elizabeth 1 and Victoria, (I didn't know).
We went on to the library after our afternoon swim (blissfully empty pool between 2.30-3.30 ), to get more information on the Georgians,but, my big gripe about the NC is that the only history books in the kids section were:
Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Romans, Normans, Tudors, Victorians and the WW's.

Does nothing else in History happen!!!

Anyway, luckily I have some 'grown-up' history books at home and then there's the internet.

I had a Pampered Chef party last week so my dd sorted all the invoices and put products into bags for me, to send out.
Then she tidied her bedroom.
Both my dd's do a bit of work then go out and bounce on the trampoline for half an hour, come back and do a bit of dancing, then sit with their heads in books.

milou2 I started out with workbooks, and I must admit to using them for maths but on the whole I'm led by what my dd's are interested in that day.
I have drifted slowly more and more into the autonomous learning ways, which I did find very hard to get my head round at first, information certainly seems to 'stick' better when it is discovered rather than me try to 'force' it there.

I didn't 'de-school' for the first year and I wish I had known more about it 2 years ago, it might have saved me a lot of battles!

Good luck HE is an exciting adventure.

is de-schooling the same as un-schooling?

de-schooling is "recovering" from school (a period of no academic pressure, getting your head round the differences between school and not-school); unschooling is a US term for child-led education - in the UK it's more usually called autonomous education

Article about deschooling

and Joyfully Rejoycing my favourite unschooling site.