Ward and I recently began seriously looking into homeschooling, and I am just amazed at the resources available online. This week has been a week of discoveries about homeschooling; most of all, we’ve been seeing that the only limit when it comes to homeschooling is our own creativity.

It’s been very exciting, and we’ve both come away with some wonderful new ideas. Best of all, homeschooling is now something that can use both of our talents. Originally, our plan was to have Ward do most of the teaching, since that’s his forte. Me? I’m just not teacher material.

But I’m good at ideas, and research, and more ideas. After doing our research this week, it’s easy to see how we can both work on this together. So I’ll be putting together the lesson plans, finding resources, creating print-outs, things like that. Ward will handle the day-to-day learning activities.

We’ve decided to use the unit study method, as it’s flexible and we can adapt it to fit Dylan’s learning style which is both visual and auditory. Our goal (aside from keeping on track with the provincial curriculum) is to teach a love of learning. Unit studies seems to us to be the best way of doing this.

And then at the end of each unit study, I’ll step in again and help Dylan pull together everything he’s worked on, into either a special notebook, or a lapbook. Dylan loves creating art, so it’s been exciting to learn about lapbooks because they’re something we know he’s going to be very interested in creating.

We ended this week with another adventure - Dylan’s been running a high fever for the past few days, and has been on antibiotics for an infection. That has definitely been an adventure in and of itself. But once he’s better, we’ll be able to start on our first unit study, which will be on … of course … trains!