Homeschool is not five days a week
Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Remember that homeschool is not five days a week, confined to 8 hours of the day. Home education is a lifestyle that expands past “school” hours and fills up your family’s shared daily experiences.
Pay attention this weekend to the ways in which your children continue their learning journeys without encouragement from you. Seize opportunities to augment interests through field trips or conversations or a new tool or toy.
Pat yourself on the back for what you observe and remind yourself that lots of learning is happening all the time, all around you so that on those days where nothing goes right, you can remember that there are other days (even on the weekend) that do!
Also, this is your chance to involve the FT working parent who is more likely to be home on the weekends. If you are married to a math-whiz, see if that mathematically competent adult can find practical ways to use the math processes you worked on all week in a workbook.
If your partner is great with science experiments, save those for weekends.
If you have a partner who sews or gardens or bakes, why not spend Saturday doing fall (or spring!) projects together?
Enjoy the learning journey and share in the comments the ways learning shows up in your family on the weekends.
Cross-posted on facebook.
