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For the past several months, I’ve been writing a series over on Heidi St. John’s blog, The Busy Mom, about delight-directed learning.
I think y’all know I am passionate about this method of homeschool education. It has served us well as our primary way to educate Ben for the past several years.
However, I completely understand that this method is not comfortable for everyone to do full-time. That’s why I wrote this series. My goal was to show you that you can add some delight-directed learning to YOUR homeschool, no matter what your method.
I wanted to share with you the links to all 5 articles, here in one place on my blog.
Delight-directed Learning for Any Homeschool
Part One: Talk to your kids or maybe just pay attention to what they talk about most. What piques their curiosity? There really are very few topics that cannot be developed into an educational experience. We often take these topics and create unit studies.
Part Two: Notice when your student gets excited by something you are already teaching. It really can be as simple as giving your student some extra time to follow a rabbit trail.
Part Three: Notice what has piqued the interest of your student and then plan a field trip based on that interest.
Part Four: Create a “fun school” jar with exciting activities you know your kids will enjoy.
Part Five: Fill a book basket on your student’s topic of interest. Using this method has encouraged my son to love reading for pleasure, and for school. For a long time, he didn’t even realize he was “doing school.”
Do you add any delight-directed learning to your homeschool? Do you think you can now? I would love to hear what you think!
Every time a I post a picture of this little handheld microscope I get emails asking me what it is and where you can find it. So I’ll just tell you now and save you the trouble of emailing me. It’s called a Discovery Scope and can be purchased on Amazon.
The second question I get is about how I took the picture. It was a little tricky, but basically, I just held my iPad’s camera eye up to the viewfinder. You can see more pictures on my review of the Discovery Scope. They’re really are pretty cool. We still have our Discovery Scope and use it and love it. It’s a little pricey, but it’s been one of our favorite tools ever. Yeah, I know I didn’t have to buy it, but if we ever lost it, we’d replace it in a flash.
