The Organized Unschooler

We recently finished reading Rick Riordan’s:  Percy Jackson & the Olympians Series, and we have been enmeshed in Ancient Greece.  All my Ancient Greece books, crafts, activities, projects, etc. came flying off the shelves as the children wanted more and more and more information about the subject.  Yay, for my “organized unschooler” pre-planning.   hee [...]

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Part of my “Organized Plan” involved visions of my children doing certain things each day.  My Plan included them doing something related to reading/writing each day and something “mathy” each day.  My Plan, also, included doing something related to science, geography, foreign languages, history, etc. somewhere throughout the week.  And, all of this was supposed to happen [...]

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or,  “The Closet Unschooler”  I had a friend good-naturedly tease me that “organized unschooler” was an oxymoron.  And, I agree, at first blush, it may seem so.  In fact, it seemed like enough of a contradiction to me, in the past, that I was afraid/cautious about mentioning any of my organizational tendencies when in groups of [...]

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I am a control-freak.  It was a natural & inevitable result of the environment in which I grew up.  I have learned to accept and embrace this aspect of my personality.  And, over the years, I have learned to manage it as well.  When I first started looking into homeschooling, I was sure that I would need textbooks and [...]

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Okay, okay, so it’s been 3 months!!  I’m still working on getting things organized!!  Plus, my dh took some “time off” in between jobs . . . you would think having another adult around the house all the time would allow me to have more free time . . . . . um . . [...]

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Welcome to The Organized Unschooler blog! It is my intention to write about the Organized and not-so-organized activities that my children & I do.  And, to give examples of how Organized Unschooling works for us. It is currently a work in progress, so please bookmark us & check back often!!

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