I’m not the above person, but I’ve been homeschooling mine for a few years. I don’t know how common that is among LessWrong users, and I’m new here, but I can try to answer questions / otherwise contribute if it would be helpful. (I have no experience with forest school, though.)
I value being able to choose curricula and methods. I love learning and relearning aspects of every subject along with the kids. I would not want to try to teach a classroom of other people’s children, but working with my own has been great so far.
Hello just having a go at replying again. Got some error messages trying to post here before. Perhaps the thread is locked as it’s no longer the current one.
Well that seemed to go fine. I’ll dig out my previous comment and repost.
Half and half at the moment. 12yo is registered at school although been home since March because of covid with a lot of work sent home from school. 5yo is full time home educated. It’s going ok. 5yo is keen on writing, drawing, and at the moment creating lots of 3D models in paper and tape, so those parts are easy at the moment. I think different temperaments of kid make it harder or easier. Is there a particular reason you’re considering it? Forest school is an outdoor learning format. cf https://www.forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/
There are a lot of these settings in the UK, maybe not so many elsewhere around the world. Out in the woods in all weathers, most settings aim at facilitating children’s self-directed learning, with opportunities to learn a whole lot of outdoor skills ranging from wildlife identification, tool use, as well as skills in working with other people. We go once a week for a morning or once a fortnight.
Are you doing homeschooling? How is that going? I’m just very curious because I’m thinking about it for my children too. What is forest school?
I’m not the above person, but I’ve been homeschooling mine for a few years. I don’t know how common that is among LessWrong users, and I’m new here, but I can try to answer questions / otherwise contribute if it would be helpful. (I have no experience with forest school, though.)
I value being able to choose curricula and methods. I love learning and relearning aspects of every subject along with the kids. I would not want to try to teach a classroom of other people’s children, but working with my own has been great so far.
Yeah I’d love to hear more about it. Anything you can share. And that could be a good material for a post too,
Hello just having a go at replying again. Got some error messages trying to post here before. Perhaps the thread is locked as it’s no longer the current one.
Well that seemed to go fine. I’ll dig out my previous comment and repost.
Half and half at the moment. 12yo is registered at school although been home since March because of covid with a lot of work sent home from school. 5yo is full time home educated. It’s going ok. 5yo is keen on writing, drawing, and at the moment creating lots of 3D models in paper and tape, so those parts are easy at the moment. I think different temperaments of kid make it harder or easier.
Is there a particular reason you’re considering it?
Forest school is an outdoor learning format. cf https://www.forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/
There are a lot of these settings in the UK, maybe not so many elsewhere around the world. Out in the woods in all weathers, most settings aim at facilitating children’s self-directed learning, with opportunities to learn a whole lot of outdoor skills ranging from wildlife identification, tool use, as well as skills in working with other people. We go once a week for a morning or once a fortnight.