Our Homeschooling Work and Adventures

There is so much to write about with Homeschooling, lots of subjects to think about, how to present them to the children, how to get them excited about all the subjects so much so that the want to do them, learn from them and take that into their future as adults.

In one of my electronics courses they mentioned that if we learn something, or do something, then write it down, and even read it later on, we will recall the experiences because we are in reality experiencing them all over again in our minds, feelings with our senses, and what we recall of the experiences from the emotions felt.

Writing what we learn is important as it helps us immediately recall what we did, felt, what emotions were used, and what we learned. I heavily promoted talking about what we did immediately after we did the lesson then write it down in a book to be read years later.

In the example below my daughter Tracey mentions the microscope. We had about 3 of these and used them often in the children’s learning. They are a lot of fun, and open the way to viewing a world that the children couldn't see before. Each child was always very delighted when looking into a microscope for the first time.

I was always pleased to see them doing Homeschool experiments in their own time just for the fun of it, and using the microscopes was a good example of this. We would collect leaves, parts of plants and even small insects and look at them in the microscope.

I recall that Tracy found these very small innocent looking white insects and she was horrified to see that under the microscope they had fangs and knife like ends to their many arms/legs. The surprises cause wonder, excitement, and the desire for investigation.

My second eldest daughter Rachel was given a telescope for a present and that was also used in Homeschooling experiments, opening up to use yet another wonderful world that we all previously could not see before.

For me always one of the big thrills was learning myself alongside of the children, something I always enjoyed and will treasure all my life.

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.

25th of March, 2021.