Why (and How) We School Year Long!

1. Because we can! The great thing about homeschooling is that we can choose a schedule that works best for us!

2. There will always be those doldrum days throughout the year when no one is motivated or inspired - especially the month of January. So it makes sense to just keep going when we're excited and there are still fun things in front of us!

3. With child-led-learning, the whole wide world is school. So we follow wherever our curiosity takes us...

4. ...And our curiosity has so many places to take us in summer!

Summer is the perfect time to grow gardens. We plant a seed, we watch it grow! It is perfect for botany and biology; to study life cycles of plants. And for entomology; there are so many amazing bugs in our yard everyday! We can study their life cycles as well. We can study spiders' webs, bee hives and wasp nests...

Summer is a grand time to explore the auspicious forest fires and floods and their effects on different habitats...

To observe a family of robins until the babies leave the nest...

What happens in the compost pile???

Exploring rivers and currents... What happens when you skip a rock across the water?

Collecting rock samples...

Storms. Thunderstorms, tornadoes, rainbows. Observing weather & cloud formations...

Picking delicious wild & traditional foods...

A summer full of beautiful things is a summer full of learning.

painting a picture of the garden

pipe cleaner bee

"pollinating" the flowers

Happy learning!
~Beth