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UnSchooling Worksheet

9/1/2021

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Our oldest kid should be starting Kindergarten right now. We did a homeschool co-op for preschool, but this year we are choosing to go a step further and "unschool." Unschooling has a lot of definitions, but to our family it is learning what we want to learn, when we want to learn about it. It is about parent/child mentorship, and passion instead of pressure. I am a student of homeschooling while my kids are students of life. We are both learning as much as we can. 

​In order to provide a little more "structure" to our "unschool," we have started a series of goals around tracking how many hours we spend on key subjects to Kindergarten and Preschool. 
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The average minimum hours of instruction for Kindergarten is 450 (in Idaho). If we do 500 hours in a year for each subject; we will far exceed instruction requirements, and I think our kids have fun seeing it this way (I know I do). For additional reference, instruction time for grades 1-3 are 810 hours and grades 4-8 are 900 hours.

The subjects that we are focusing on for each of our 500 hour goals are as follows:
  • ABC's/123's (workbooks, singing, flashcards, etc.)
  • Games (physical activity, learning board games, card games, etc.)
  • Art (painting, coloring, etc.)
  • Reading (aloud and quiet time)
  • Science (experiments, cooking, exploring nature, microscope time, etc.)
  • Outdoors - this is actually a 1000 hour goal for the year!
(Five subjects with 500 hours = 2500 hours, if we only do half we still have double "hours of instruction" for a traditional school.)

Other "subjects" we try to touch on daily but don't track progress on are as follows:
  • Freeplay
  • Legos
  • Music

Download a free copy of the 500 hour tracker here:
sssprinkles_unschool_grid_of_hours.pdf
File Size: 157 kb
File Type: pdf
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