Leaping From The Box

Interesting Ant Questions

There are several new ant questions (and answers) this week at Ask the Consult-Ant. Also, don’t forget that Roberta, our LeapingFromTheBox “Consult-Ant,” has her very own Growing With Science Blog. In her Kids’ Questions About Ants post, Roberta answers questions from several fourth graders in Georgia who had an ant farm ...

Learn Nothing Day

Have you heard? There is an official Learn Nothing Day just for unschoolers! An official vacation day for unschoolers! I just learned of it at Ren’s Learning in Freedom blog. It is a good thing I didn’t learn of Learn Nothing Day on July 24th, the official day, ...

Musings, Mischief and Mayhem

Just a quick reminder about my personal blog, Musings, Mischief and Mayhem. Recent posts have included wedding pictures of our youngest child and other related family news. If you are curious about the person behind LeapingFromTheBox.com, check it out!

Homeschool Mixer Questions – Part 3

Finishing up with our Homeschool Mixer Questions, 13. What difficulties and challenges do you have with homeschooling? I can think of two main challenges from our homeschooling years. The first major challenge was finding local like-minded homeschoolers. It seemed like every homeschooler that we knew within a reasonable driving distance ...

Homeschool Mixer Questions – Part 2

Continuing with our Homeschool Mixer Questions, 6. What does your daily schedule look like? Our schedules always varied, depending upon the season and the activities that the children were involved in. And honestly, it is difficult to remember exact schedules from ten or twelve years ago! Most of the time ...

Homeschool Mixer Questions

Through blogging I have “met” many interesting homeschoolers from across the country and around the world. Sandra is one such blogger and her On Living By Learning blog is one of my daily reads. I love her byline, “Learn, Grow, Explore, Change the World.” On Sandra’s June 22nd post, ...

Is Unschooling Legal?

If homeschooling is legal, which it is in all 50 states and many countries, then unschooling is legal. Unschooling is simply a METHOD of homeschooling; it is not a separate thing from homeschooling. You can follow the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling or use the Unit Studies method ...

Summer Vacation, the Unschooling Way

For most children, summer means no school, vacation time! For our family, summer usually meant staying indoors more, due to the Alabama heat, and for some reason this often led to an increase in more formal learning than our usual unschooling days. For example, we would spend more ...

Unschooling, Part II

My regular readers no doubt have been wondering about my blogging absence. My apologies for leaving you hanging on the Audacity of Hope review. I do hope to finish that up soon. Life intruded, as it often does. In late April our daughter and two-year-old granddaughter ...

Kindergarten Scope and Sequence

“What curriculum do you suggest for Kindergarten?” This is a question I am frequently asked by parents. It is also a question I find particularly difficult to provide a quick, easy response to. The truth is I do not believe that a curriculum is necessary for Kindergarten, but that usually is ...