Seasons of Homeschooling

Each season during the year brings forth a little different bend to our homeschooling day.  Only after several years of observing this can I see the pattern and embrace the change as it happens naturally.  

A brief explanation of this seasonal flow through our home and homeschool.

Fall:  This is the time of more formal education.  I usually plan activities and pull together resources for these four months or so based on requests for learning in certain areas or just subjects that may need a little focus.  It helps that this coincides with the time of year that friends return to school and others are asking when we start, what the kids are studying, and other random school-y questions.  

Winter:  I consider winter to be December and January (probably because I am from the Texas coast and those are the only 2 cold months in the year).  These two months we celebrate holidays and birthdays since both kids were born in January.  Lots of baking, fun activities, adventures, outings, parties are the sort of things that keep us busy during this season.

Spring:  This season with turning a year older, everyone becomes more goal oriented.  Each of my kids reignites the desire to complete goals and quests.  They tend to develop into passion driven individuals.  

Summer:  With a wonderful area to roam and freedom to do so, summer makes the perfect season for experiential learning.  We try new things, camp in new areas, hangout with friends, learn new hobbies and skills.  

This may be a thing that only my family moves through.  I thought it was too interesting not to share.  It supports the researched idea that kids learn best in bursts of focus.