{OUR YEAR OF UNSCHOOL // A RECAP & TALK OF GOOD SOIL...}
i never really shared the observations i kept and the things i learned durning our ‘year of unschool’. i type that lightly because i am well aware of the nature of an un-schoolers life and while it may seems as if there have been more structure, more plans, more order to our homeschool days than could possibly be labeled unschool, that’s because i really hate labels and i kinda ‘care not’ to share every tiny detail of what made that title fit for that year of of life. there is so much more to a families homeschool life than can be shared, seen and/or understood. i would heavily consider us un-schoolers from the very start and yet much prefer the term purpose-driven above all else.
never-the-less, i never really shared the observations i kept and the things i learned durning our ‘year of unschool’. i’m hoping to take a moment to remember a few pieces of the lessons that have now found their way along for the ride.
“learning is their journey, let them navigate. push them to explore. watch them discover. encourage their questions. allow them to struggle. support their thinking.”
over the next few months ill spend time considering those very lessons that i learned and expanding more as not to spend too much time in the past but rather carry the best parts and pieces into our days ahead.
lessons from our official “unschool year”
-choose quiet trust over deafening doubt
-let experiments drive evidence
-lean in to what’s beyond your control
i wrote out our unit of study objective months ago and shared them in a post where i talked about this years basic gap year goal: focusing in on the importance of good soil and what that means in our lives. then I came across this beauty of a documentary. kiss the ground. a film exploring regenerative farming, the carbon cycle, what it takes to cultivate good soil, heal our land.
the filmed confirmed sooooo much as we head into this new year of discoveries. it gave me the inspiration that I didn’t know that I needed in order to start this year off with my sense of adventure in tact.
below // chef kendall harvesting his first watermelon, 🍉 organically grown from seed to table from the soil that he nourished and kept. that smile!!!!
“good soil, good ground”
is what I was hoping to prove true in our homeschool lives. like that good soil we’d like to both receive seed and capture carbon like only good soil can, to produce harvest for years to come!
our unschool year allowed me room to trust even more in the beauty of what it means to live + learn.
documenting has always been the plan but the ‘who’ ‘what’ ‘when’ ‘why’ ‘where’ and ‘how’ is the part that gets a bit wild. i’ve considered so many different things, different ways of documenting/memory keeping and have tried my hands at them all. from vlogs, to journals, photos and videos to the beginning production of our first feature length the film. and, yet somehow i always find myself drawn to this very place.
this daily blog // there are so many questions that i have about this method… things that i can’t seem to figure out or strategize well enough. the nature of blogging has changed. People are no longer tolerant of longer form content and following the everyday journey through others ups and downs in the way we did before.
this space where I can share the emotional rollercoaster that is our journey. from our first carrot harvest to the opening and closing of our shop, the building of our educational community, our team, weekly meal plan struggles, ups and downs of relationships, wealth building and more.
here we are… in effort to be good soil… good ground on which our seeds are planting… starting today with mustard seed size faith to commit and be here for this journey.
“always learning, always growing… bc life is full of lessons so, we live and we learn”
with all the love,
syreena