Add Wonder to Your Homeschool With Unit Studies

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Struggling to keep your homeschooling engaging and effective? I’ve got you covered! In this episode of Homeschool Better Together, Laney Homan and I chat about the benefits of unit studies. I share memories of my early homeschooling days, filled with unit studies that made learning come alive for my kids.

Laney, a busy mom of eight, brings her real-life experiences to the table. She shares tips on integrating unit studies into a busy homeschool schedule. Laney explains how unit studies can simplify planning, foster closer family relationships, and make learning together more enjoyable.

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Key Ideas:

Discover the components of the Wonder Studies program, including Little Explorers for early education, Explorations for the arts, and Voyages for content subjects like history and science.
Learn how the program is designed to accommodate children of varying ages, with tasks tailored to the child's age and skill level, including differentiated written and oral narrations for older children.
Explore the benefits of unit studies, including making connections across different subjects, creating consistency in learning, and reducing burnout for both children and parents.
Understand how the Explorations approach integrates natural connections across subjects, avoiding contrived links, and provides flexibility by not adhering strictly to a historical timeline.
Hear insights from Laney Homan on using themed morning time explorations, how it has helped her children make better connections in history, and enhanced their overall subject understanding.
Recognize the challenges of homeschooling, the importance of perseverance, and the value of finding a homeschooling method that works uniquely for each family.
Learn about the mentorship opportunities provided through the Wonder Studies membership, including 15-minute calls with Laney Homan to guide parents and create a supportive homeschooling community.

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:05.4	Do you long for support as you learn alongside your kids?
0:10.3	Welcome to Home School Better Together, a podcast about building a homeschool experience that works for your family.
0:18.2	I'm Pam Barnhill, and it's time to step out of the overwhelm and
0:22.0	into the wonder. Let's do this.
0:28.5	Hey there, and welcome to today's episode of the podcast. I am joined by our member success
0:35.4	manager, Ms. Laney Holman. Lainey, how are you doing today?
0:40.3	I'm doing really well today. How are you, Pam? I am doing great. So much fun to get to chat with you
0:45.9	about unit studies, which is kind of one of my favorite things. It harkens all the way back to
0:51.3	my earliest days of homeschooling and brings back all of those fond
0:56.1	memories because that's where my kids and I started out and hung out for a very, very long time
1:02.4	in our homeschool journey. And I think you're hanging out there longer than I ever did. And I'm kind of
1:07.9	proud of you for it. Yeah. And I think what the funniest part about it is,
1:12.4	is that I really haven't considered what we're doing unit studies. But when I really think about
1:18.2	like how we're doing school these days, it does fall under that category. Yeah. It was just a natural
1:24.4	shift in how we were approaching learning using the explorations inside membership.
1:30.8	And it just built from there.
1:33.3	And like I said, I never really considered like, oh, we're switching approaches or now we're using unit studies.
1:40.0	And as we have begun to kind of discuss the concept of unit studies and different homeschool
1:46.7	philosophies and things, I was like, well, that actually kind of does mesh pretty well with how
1:52.2	we're, you know, how we're schooling these days. I love it. Okay. Okay. So remind everybody,
1:57.7	how many kids you have in total, but also you're only doing this with some of your kids because half of your kids have graduated. Half of your kids have graduated.
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