Thursday 30 July 2015

Thursdays with The Buddies

think we'd be ok to call ourselves, seasoned home educators, enough years under our belts, paper mâché works of art, boxes of pictures, ticket stubs and pond dipping sessions attended to be the real deal. 
By no means experts, mistakes aplenty, disasters, triumphs and glitter crusted carpets are us. 



Denise - This will be our 14th year of learning at home, what began with Lewis at 7, taken out of school for a break, followed with Katie and Oscar never attending school.
Lewis, 21 and Katie, 17 now at University and college both decided to go to school in their teens.

Do we unschool ? Maybe
Are we project based learners ? Sometimes
Workbook Users ? Occasionally
Times tables, curriculum, hours of school time, test taking ? No, we are definitely not.

We learn at home, Oscar and I, by doing, seeing, listening, investigating, making and play, lots of play.
Our weeks flow, nothing much fixed firmly, plenty of time and space for all that life has to offer.
But Thursday, Thursdays are different, Thursdays we have a long standing date with our buddies, Jack and Susan.

And those are days full of adventure.



Susan - We are a family of 5, 2 adults and 3 children, living in a very rural area. Our 2 oldest children chose to go to school for the first time when they reached age 14 so for the last 2 years Jack remains the only one being home educated. This has allowed Jack to really establish his own pace and rhythm and way of processing things.  We learn, discover, repeat and develop together throughout the week of play, music, talking, watching and doing. Ok so there's the necessity of frequent medical appointments and treatments but Jack isn't being taken out of education to attend them, they're just a part of the overall week.


We'd love to start sharing our adventures here, each Thursday.
Our Paddington Bear days, gardening and play days, making, cooking and sharing days, days out and days in, Book Sharing days, holidays, festivals and fun days.

These Buddies are our greatest teachers and sometimes we teach them.








5 comments:

Hannah said...

Ack, that photo of the boys as tiddlers <3

I can't wait to hear more about your adventures.

Jacqui said...

Fantastic idea - love this xxx

Unknown said...

Fabulous. Looking forward to hearing of your adventures.

Cheryl said...

Looking forward to hearing about your adventures. Slightly envious of anyone taking the homeschooling route. I shall settle to enjoy hearing about yours. And, yes, that is an exceedingly cute photo of the two of them as toddlers.

denise said...

Sweet boys. <3