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marihalojen
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Thanks for commiserating with me, ladies! I couldn't imagine all of you writing out lessons like those but I felt I had to ask.  Turning in a week's worth of plans like those to the principal every Friday by 5pm and IEP paperwork are two of my worst all time memories! 
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| The school lesson plans I find on the internet have much more baggage than I need in my home. Yet I have always wondered if the lesson-planning has some legitimacy in terms of how children learn. Not all the extra "standards covered" but something more like a Montessori album format of preparation, presentation, extensions/variations, etc. |
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Willa, I think you put your finger right on what I was pondering, I'm not too familiar with the Montessori format but devoting some thought to how I'd open the lesson, what method I might introduce (for example, rather than just reading randomly perhaps read using the SQR4 strategy - Survey Question Read Recite Rephrase Review) and especially the Closure, we never seem to close out of something, we just string it along to death for months and months while when I was teaching in a certain time block it was easy to glance at the clock and take the last few moments to restate important concepts before the bell rang, wrap it all up, put the pretty bow on top and be done with it, iykwim!
After thinking on this topic this past weekend I think personally what has me so worried is not that we are basically unschooling right now, unschooling has never bothered me in the least, but rather that I've devolved into unteaching and that is what I'm uncomortable with. I think I could do better, I think I could be more engaged, I know I have been in the past and am wondering what would kick-start me again. A little more formalized unit of study to wrap up the school year perhaps?
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marihalojen wrote:
After thinking on this topic this past weekend I think personally what has me so worried is not that we are basically unschooling right now, unschooling has never bothered me in the least, but rather that I've devolved into unteaching and that is what I'm uncomortable with. I think I could do better, I think I could be more engaged, I know I have been in the past and am wondering what would kick-start me again. A little more formalized unit of study to wrap up the school year perhaps?
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I call it unschooling by default and I don't like it, either, when I slip into that mode. When I unschool on purpose, I am more engaged...
Sometimes, it helps if I get involved in planning activities for feast days for the upcoming weeks - and as we do the activities together, we research, we read, we cook, we write or do something hands on and I thus feel like we are accomplishing something, that I am involved and a good homeschooling mum for a change  and the kids are learning.
I'm doing that now with feast days - not so much lesson planning but liturgical-year-schoolish-planning.
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After thinking on this topic this past weekend I think personally what has me so worried is not that we are basically unschooling right now, unschooling has never bothered me in the least, but rather that I've devolved into unteaching and that is what I'm uncomortable with. I think I could do better, I think I could be more engaged, I know I have been in the past and am wondering what would kick-start me again. A little more formalized unit of study to wrap up the school year perhaps?
This is so me right now....
I am enjoying looking forward to next year, plans etc. but need to get my head back into the present and engage with my children in the here and now. I am thinking of a nice change in rhythm (that spring always brings) that includes more games together and some intentional nature study and walks (now that we live downtown and not in the rainforest I have to be way more intentional in this department!)
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