I recently saw a photo series by a professional photographer that showcased homeschooling and it irked me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, the photos were beautiful! The captions depicted children hunting, exploring nature, scaling ponds, and playing in the mud: unschooling in all its glory. The lighting was perfect, the focus was crisp and clear. Yet I felt that the series failed to capture the essence of homeschooling. The reality is, homeschooling is FAR from perfect and learning can take on many forms. So I reached out to my little community of homeschoolers on Facebook and asked them to show me what homeschooling looks like for them. So wordy Rebecca is going to bow to the age-old truism that a picture is worth 1,000 words and let them speak for themselves!
Field Trip to the Popcorn Factory
Math with Dad
Making Homemade IceCream
Reading Breakthrough…
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Using Dry-erase markers on the windows (GENIUS!) – the Browns
Reading to his little brother ❤️
Exploring the local science center!
Learning can happen anywhere! (the Gingerich kids)
Lego- a homeschool mom’s best friend
Homeschooling through play
Homeschooling sometimes happens at night… with snacks! – Ayon
Forney boys have this homeschool thing covered!
Sometimes the best desk is the floor!
Math Breakthrough! -Lees
Homeschool law 101: DON’T GET DISTRACTED ? Davis kids for the win!
Sometimes you have to get creative! -Davis
Homeschoolers are REALLY good at finding learning opportunities in anything! -Davis
Field Trip Time! -Dearman kids are GREAT at posing for pictures ❤️
What could be cuter than our kids learning WHILE teaching their siblings? Homeschoolwin! -Friesen
Homeschool kids break the rules, that’s right, we sit sideways on our chairs! -Friesen
Grasley girls know how to do school in style… school in their PJ’s, that’s just the way I flow people! ❤️
Campbell family is making their own compost! Practical AND educational!
Netflix and documentaries are our friends! – Grasley
Prepping the compost -campbell
Nature schooling for the win! Campbell
Gardening = life skills -campbell
Bushnell Kids learn everywhere!
Art and sibling love! ❤️ -Bushnell
Nature school! – campbell
Compton kids know how to do this whole playschool thing!
Ellesson family learns together as a family! Bring on the chaos!
Scoullar family has the right idea… coffee and the kitchen table, love it! ❤️
Urquiza kids exploring the world around them!
Ocean schooling is one of my favorite things! -Trusca
Eckhardt breakthrough!
Massey kids learning together at the table, notice the decorations on the wall behind them? ❤️
Field trip time with teh Guillets!
Love the basket idea! – Guillet
I love this pic, I love what it represents, and I LOVE that table! ❤️ – Chrstina Marie
Messy play is the BEST kind of play – Christina Marie
Tot school! – Christina Marie
School at the beach with the Gingerich family!
This might be one of my favorites because this is REAL you guys! This cutie patootie likes to do school in her undies, just like my 3 year old! ❤️❤️❤️ – Butler
❤️ Oh my goodness. This photo just melts me, LOVE it! -May family
I love this photo, and frankly feel like a bit of a slacker these days, this looks FUN! ❤️ – May
Kids cooking = life skills, math skills, reading skills, listening skills, memory skills and more! – May
The Tribe family caught a snake! Homeschoo moms be like: “Let’s study it!” ?
Ice melting science school! – Tribe family
Doing Bible with Grapevine Studies at the table, love this curriculum! Pruitt family…
Landini family takes a recess lunch. ?
Tribe family manages to fit in musical studies with art appreciation! ?
Leitner family likes to do hands on homeschooling!
LOVE that they are cooking together! – Leitner family
Sometimes the work just gets tough ya’ll! Leitner family
Leitner family, one big happy gang!
Beach schooling… counting star fish!
Making lunch for his family.
nature walk!
Time for a bit of adventuring!
Sometimes school means doing some chores! ?
What does homeschooling look like for you? I love this series, some of these families are in the US, some in India, some in Canada, these people are from all over the world! I love how homeschooling can look so different and yet so relateable no matter where you are! I love that sometimes we are so busy living in the moment that a blurry pic is all we get, but the breakthrough is something we’ll never forget! I love that our kids have messy hair and mismatched clothes and kids climbing on the furniture. It isn’t perfect my friends! But THIS is real life. And I hope that in the midst of your own chaos today, you feel a little less alone seeing just how normal that chaos is! Embrace it, take a picture when you can, breathe it all in! One day we are going to look back on these days and miss them!
Thank you to EVERYONE who took the time to contribute pictures to this series. Your kids are beatiful and your families are amazing and you are ROCKING this homeschool thing! Happy homeschooling my friends, wherever you are and whatever that looks like!
These pictures are awesome! I just started homeschooling my 11, 9, and 4 year old this year and sometimes you feel like your the only family being on this journey but these pictures remind you that you’re not alone! There are families doing the same kind of homeschooling as us…ie, pj day, field trips whether it be in your backyard, at a historic site or a science place! What’s the point of schooling anyway…to get educated and it’s awesome seeing kids from all over the world getting educated by the things that are in this world around them instead of being in a four wall room all day. I’m so glad that you did this! 🙂 Let me also say how blessed I am by all that you do! You totally rock!!! 😉
What amazing pictures. We are quite new to home schooling and I am having a bit of a wobble at the moment. Not about whether home ed is right for us, but simply about how our time should be spent. Looking through these pictures has made me really smile and has certainly taken a load off my mind. There really is no one way of doing this is there? Thank you very much from the UK xx
How I successfully stumbled upon your post. Such information is incredibly useful for parents. And even though now the Internet makes life much more comfortable, for example, my son and I try a useful source, but still, a significant amount of information requires more effort. So now it’s somewhat morally easier for me that our training does not always coincide with walking along the beach and hiking.