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If education is about the training of our children’s minds and the shaping of their hearts, why is it so primarily focused on the ABCs & 123s? Even though this is one of the reasons I homeschool (to be able to define for ourselves what an education is), I’ll admit I’m still guilty of focusing way too much time and…
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v It’s that time of the year again! The festive season is officially over and we’re busy planning for our homeschool year! And no, we don’t start the year with schools, so we don’t have the pressure of opening in the next two weeks 🙂 We usually start in Feb, or whenever we’re ready😅…because we can 😛😄I wrote down these…
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One of the most popular questions we get asked is “What does your Homeschooling Day look like?” Today, I’m gonna share a bit about what our homeschooling rhythm looks like and hopefully it’ll shed a bit more light 🙂(Click here if you’d rather watch the episode) Let me start with this quote by Richie Norton, that I love: “Intentional living is…
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One of the most popular questions we get asked is “Why do we homeschool” or “How did we decide to homeschool”.
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We recently did a week focused on learning about the human body in our homeschool 🙂 There is honestly SOOO much to learn about the human body, no wonder people spend years upon years in university studying! I must say: 1) Just in preparing for these lessons, I was in awe of God’s design….when you learn more about everything that…
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We’ve all been shaken by this Covid-19, and now with our nation on lockdown, we just wanted to share some tips on making the most of this time. Not everything will apply to every single person, of course, because we’re all facing varying situations. Also, please bear with me if you’re not a parent, as some of the tips have…
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“Children don’t need more things. The best toys a child can have is a parent who gets down on the floor and plays with them” – Bruce Perry There’s so much I want for our kids….and it’s so easy getting caught up doing stuff for them (because they also do have A Lot of needs! ) but I am…
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One of the (many) things I’m having to unlearn in this homeschooling journey is the idea that learning=classroom=paper,pen&book=teacher in front of class, etc. I’ve had to discover what learning is all about and am continually forming my idea of what I want our education to look like. Anyway…..one of the things I keep on having to be reminded about is…
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Tuesday was our first day back at “school” (we generally start our learning time on a Tuesday because Mondays are our standing family days as Mama and Baba usually have work on weekends). I could’ve done with another week or even month off, but I had actually missed our beloved reading time on the couch ❤️. We had a late start because…
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I’ve had to answer this question so many times. Sometimes to seemingly well-meaning people and sometimes to seemingly judgmental or skeptical ones. I guess homeschooling is not quite the norm in our nation….so more often than not, when the topic of school comes up in conversation, I have to brace myself to answer a lot of questions…..lol! I think I…
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I'm Unathi (aka MamakaKumi), and the main storyteller here :) I hope you enjoy reading about our colourful life :)
