Category: Everyday Learning

I love sharing our homeschool activities here on the blog, albeit rather sporadically. With kindergarten “officially” starting later this month (!!!), I’m hoping to turn our updates into a more regular feature. Hence the fancy blog post title: Everyday Learning | 01. (Think that will help motivate me to post more regularly?! We shall see.)

In our house we call our homeschooling method “everyday learning,” a hodgepodge of unschooling, Montessori, and project-based learning styles, we try to transform regular activities throughout our day into learning experiences.

For example this past month we:

Weighed our CSA share to calculate how many pounds of vegetables we received (subtracting her weight from each measurement then adding up the various bags of produce; we received 24 lbs this week and 15 lbs the week before!):

Created a histogram of Scrabble letters to see if we had the correct letter frequencies (we didn’t):

Dissected and pressed flowers gathered from a nature walk:

Copied birds using tracing paper and colored pencils cause she wants to create a museum similar to the one in the Boxcar Children series:

Everyday learning = everyday fun.

The girls have penmanship projects.

Our daughter, tired of not being able to read my handwriting, decided she desperately wanted to learn cursive:

Meanwhile I checked out some calligraphy books from the library to practice hand lettering:

We’re loving Robert Louis Stevenson poems right now and decided to copy our current favorites, “At the Seaside” and “Bed in Summer.”

Resources: Handwriting Without Tears alphabet reference chart (similar free downloads available here), A Child’s Garden of Verses Coloring Book, and an assortment of mechanical pencils and calligraphy pens.