Natural Learning Resources
If you are new to homeschooling, are thinking about homeschooling or need some fresh ideas, then this episode is for you!
In this episode I’m sharing natural learning resources and ideas that we can use in our home education journey. This applies to all forms of Homeschooling and Unschooling. This episode is for the families that are looking to try something of the school box of learning.
What I share in this episode is not expensive curriculum. There is no curriculum mentioned at all, actually! Instead, these are resources, activities and tools that are easy to find and accessible within our home or community.
Where To Begin?
Where to begin? First I go through important steps to consider when you are beginning your homeschooling journey or when your family needs a change. I offer questions and prompts to consider on your own and with your family. Here are a few examples:
- What is important in your home learning journey? What does learning mean to you? Education? What do I value?
- My learning history. Where am I coming from? Do my past education and school experiences reflect my current reality? Are there things from my past learning experience that I would like to change? Why? What impact would that have?
- Engage with your children- What are they interested in? What would they like to see and do in their homeschool life? In their daily life? What would they like to create? To play? What would they like to Build?
- Envision your home learning journey together- What do we love to do? When do we feel safe? What core values do we want to carry through?
Natural Learning Resources That My Family Has Loved
I share activities and resources that have supported my family’s learning journey in many ways. In this episode I break up the resources into “subjects” or learning outcomes that they fall into.
Literacy:
- Family Read Alouds ~ All of the ways that it has enhanced our connection, the how, why and where it has added to our learning and suggestions
- Act It Out- Drama, Theatre, Dress Up & Make Believe~ Ways and resources we can enhance this at home and what it builds for our learning
- Audio~ Books and Podcasts
- Visual- Movies, Screen-time and Digital Media
Math:
- Lego~The math foundations that it builds
- Maps~What we always have in our home, ways we incorporate maps and the math concepts and foundations maps build and support
- Natural Learning Resources and tools that support Measurement- Digital Scales, Tape Measures, Sticks and more
- Building~ The materials we can find around us
- Board Games~ Gameschooling and my favourite places to find affordable games
- Creating Surveys
Science:
- Nature Journaling and Digital Apps
- Science Experiments~ Ideas from the kitchen
- Fire
- Science shows and documentaries~ Cosmos, Gross Science, Magic School Bus, Smithsonian, Bill Nye, Google Earth
- World Studies~ Food and Recipes, Geology and Geography
- Gardening
- Building and Machines~Ideas, Recycle Materials, Field Trips
- Space and Technology
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Social Studies:
- History, Geography, People, Political Science, Ecology, Economics, Law
- World Studies- Kitchen Studies and projects
- Dancing, Painting, Folklore, Mythology
- Ted Talks~ My daughter’s favourite is Fighting Cancer With Dance
- Travel
- Family History and Family Tree
- Local History from Elders and Community
Resource Mentions and Links
Patreon~ Join my Patreon community~https://www.patreon.com/honeyimhomeschoolingthekids
Honey! I’m Homeschooling Club on Clubhouse App
Karla Marie Williams~ Inspired Learning Through Living and Unschooling Teens
Math episodes mentioned~ Math Codes with Kohila Sivas and Learning Math with Monica Robertson
Kitchen Scale- We use it often. This is the one we have that is simple and not expensive~ Digital Scale
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Khan Academy (A Favourite in our home)
