Here we go...

This blog was created as our family moves closer to "officially" schooling our eldest (who will be 5 in 2008). In reality though - life will look the same and the learning will happen the same way it always has. We are unschoolers, also known as natural learners. This is a family journey - I'm excited that my own learning happens alongside the kids, we have fun, discover and keep up the love of learning. We don't school between the hours of 9am-3pm - it's a 24/7 kind of thing.

I have read many books over the years, read plenty of online discussions and articles and feel excited to entering this next phase of life with my children. My role is to facilitate and help the kids learn more about their interests as they show the desire to. I will expose them to new experiences and information as we all ride the wave whereever that may take us.

We won't be discussing "lessons" learned or trying to categorise what their day consisted of (although I'm sure I'll be mentally tallying up "right, he spent 10mins on maths playing the fish addition game with me", "he did 1 hour of writing by copying out all the words on the ABC wall freize" and I'm sure I won't be able to resist blogging about it either at times.

I want this blog to capture our day to day life - the good, the not so good, the challenges and the excitement.