An update!

Today is the first day of the winter school holidays. Of course, school holidays don't mean much to us these day, but it does mark the end of our first term of "home schooling"! 

I'm not a big fan of labelling what we are or what we do - but I suppose the easiest way of describing it is "Child-led learning". 

I believe that for most adults and definitely most children, we learn best and retain the most knowledge, when we are working with a topic that is of interest to us individually or that we have chosen for ourselves.

Our registration period doesn't begin until September, so until I have to submit a more formalised plan for Roman's academic year, we will continue to fill our days with lots of art, reading, cooking, play, nature walks, soccer, science club and group activities with other home schooled children, as well as continuing to hang out with the wonderful group of mates that he had made at school!

I think both Kaleb and I would both say that we do not regret this decision at all. In fact, it has brought so much positivity to our family in such a short time. Not to mention that the nightmares and anxiety attacks that were a daily occurrence for Roman have drastically reduced (to around one a week!)

We are very lucky to live in an area that has a large population of homeschoolers, we are never without an activity to attend on any given day, and actually I've had to be very careful not to "over schedule" our days!

We really are loving it! 

x Shara