Our Days: September & October

A friend of mine recently gave me this idea to try and capture what we are learning during our days. While we do a fair amount of book work, we are really trying to build a family culture of lifelong learning. Meaning that learning isn't something that only happens during a set portion of the day; we are learning all the time!

One of the difficulties of this is that sometimes it's difficult to recognize everything that the kids are learning. And sometimes, we also tend to go back to thinking about learning as what we they read about in history or science or what math problems they accomplished or which phonograms they learned. So in an attempt to remind us all of the scope of what we do during a day we have started capturing some of our days on a whiteboard. We just write down snippets of what stuck in the kids heads or what they felt like were interesting points or highlights of the day.

I'm going to try to remember to do this (and share them here) throughout the school year! Here's a sampling from September and early October.