uhmm, yeah that would be it! haha! I am sometimes totally School at home, love to keep class set up and focus on subjects at certain times etc, may do this this year as much as possible... then somedays we unschool... I like to relax and let him study what he wants, so long as we get our core subjects done first! haha! Unit studies are fun! So we do some of those sometimes too.... not CM I dont think.. but nto sure what that is? I am under the something else, cause our home school has been SOMETHING ELSE! We do not follow the path of other home schools that is for sure, we study to learn more than we used to know, to complete the level on which we are on whatever that may be... and to enjoy it!
Lol I am reading through and so many of us sound the same HAHA! HAHAH ! this is why this group is together so much posting and checking, we think a LOT alike! WHOO HOO!
LOL- I always say "eclectic" because to actually explain our schooling makes people wonder! :lol: I work part-time, but the kids come with me, so during this time we are "school-at-home"- they have their textbooks/workbooks and their lesson plan and work pretty independently. We attend a once-a-week co-op for 12 weeks in the fall and 12 weeks beginning in Jan. For these classes it is seriously school, as they have assignments and deadlines and other people as their teachers! We can totally be ADOS scholars. "Attention Deficit..oooh, shiny..." in that if something catches our attention we can veer off and study that like mad. (Unit study, immersion study, whatever.) Earthquakes, hurricanes, meteor showers, flooding (locally), farming, model rockets, etc. We can be child-led, although I hesitate to say that because it is not our total vision of schooling. I do think if a child has an interest in something that we should explore that. Like the Middle Ages, or the periodic table. Why wait until it is part of the "curriculum"- strike while the iron is hot!! My kids read, and read, and read! We use textbooks for many topics, but as a spine (for my benefit)- and then we add books to the mix. Geography especially has been added to different lessons simply by finding a book about the topic and finding out MORE. I love the idea of Charlotte Mason, and have been trying to better implement that, but I can't really say that we are CM-ish. Well, is that as clear as mud??? lol, MT3
I'm a CM/Classical kind of gal....but I must say as I grow and expand the only real way to say it is Eclectic. lol. Not one thing works for every student...so I prefer to take the best of all and to suit my child. I also like throwing in different styles to keep things interesting...and have them learn from different perspectives. Eclectic, to me, is the beauty of homeschooling...so I take advantage. However, we are anchored in CM...and I am adding in more Classical this coming year.
Somewhat school-at-home, especially with certain subjects later on, with a lot of unschooling thrown in. When I started, I really thought I'd be pretty structured and strict on schooling at home. It's amazing how things change when you get going
Since I can't pick eclectic.....hmmm.... I have been everything from school-at-home, to CM to classical and more. I think now we are mostly unschoolers, but guided by me. We have workbooks for math but we use them sporadically. Other than that, we read books, explore the world around us, get messy with science and stuff like that. Schooling for us is no longer "school" but a lifestyle of learning.
