The things that make our homeschools unique, but also allow us to learn and explore the deep interests that we and our kids have. Julie talks a lot about finding the magic in our homeschool. Learn to implement systems and strategies to Cultivate Simplicity in your Home & Homeschool when you join the Townsend House Community! What ends up happening is that we are constantly searching for the right curriculum to unlock that love of learning, when in reality our kids start out with that love before we even decide to crack open the first book. We see that everywhere – if we could just create a love of learning in our homeschool, we will have succeeded. My biggest reason for homeschooling? I want to create a love of learning in my kids. No longer are we measuring our kids across a wide range of their peers to see where they fall, instead, we measure them against themselves and there is no standard for that.
We have taken on so much in educating our children ourselves, and there is no standard key to measure against. Having someone give me permission to let go of some of my worries is a huge help as a homeschooler. What an eye-opening moment for me as a mom! Well, the reason that my 8-year-old wasn’t a great speller was not that I didn’t have the right curriculum, but rather that developmentally she was not at that point. That is 10 years from when they start putting pencil to paper. Then I read something interesting on Julie’s website BraveWriter, that it takes 10 years for real writing fluency to kick in – that isn’t 10 years from birth.
I am a pretty good speller, and so is my middle guy, so I wasn’t sure how to help her. It seemed like she could easily memorize words, but then when she was writing on her own, there were many mis-spellings.
I was trying to figure out how I could help Emma get better at spelling. I actually first heard about Julie back at the beginning of 2017. The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Margin in Homeschool, Learning, and Life by Julie Bogart is one of those amazing books that you have to sit on for a while to really process all the information in it. If you click on one of these links and make a subsequent purchase I may receive a commission.
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