Aussie Not back to School Blog Hop – Our Plans for the Year.
We set out the year agreeing that 2012 is to be a year were we place a huge emphasis on the earth, its creatures, people (past and present), culture and connections and we have and will be continuing to make this our focus. We have devised five main steps that we are incorporating this into our daily lives and homeschooling that we feel these will help us achieve this goal.
Each of us has created our own set of goals for the year, past experience shows us that these work well in helping us achieve our own goals for the year and make us more accountable. I thought long and hard about the goals I would set for myself this year, and tried to focus some of them around our theme of connections, the earth and people.
This year has also seen us introduce a new way of setting out our learning year. The planning phase of our learning is always a tricky one for me, as I not only home educate the children, but also work part time. So for me planning out our new year early in 2012 was crucial. But very rewarding.
Through multiple planning phases and keeping on target through family meetings we have set the following as our loose plan for our learning in 2012.
- Grow our own vegetables
- Having No Electricity Days
- Enjoy a lot more Nature Walks
- Caring for Animals and dealing with issues that may arise
- Historical play – Already we have enjoyed The Shingle Strike
- Hands on Archeology
- Researching Family History
- Making Home Made gifts
- Letter writing / penpalling
- Focus on reading as it is the National Year of Reading in 2012
For anyone who is interested in our curriculum which is a forever ongoing and changing activity in our house, we currently have the following curriculum organised and being used in 2012.
Thanks to Kylie of Our Worldwide Classroom for organising this Blog hop!
