ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Cynthia and Justine are the co-founders of The Learn + Live Letter, a homeschool membership of hands-on, play-based unit studies for ages 3 to 12, and this is OpenEd's first episode to take the method apart - what a unit study actually is, how one dinosaur unit carries history, measurement and letter sounds, how to run one lesson across a 3-year-old and a 12-year-old, and what Cynthia does the moment tears start at the table.
GUESTS
Justine LoMonaco and Cynthia Holt - co-foundersm of The Learn + Live Letter.
Website: https://learnandliveletter.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learnandliveletter/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:05 She kept him home for kindergarten and never sent him back
02:19 "I thought homeschoolers were a little bit weird"
05:06 How to find a homeschool community from scratch
11:36 Finding unit studies on a CD-ROM 15 years ago
17:08 Classical education in a 900-square-foot apartment
19:22 Homeschooling a second time: "he gets the best version of me"
23:24 "Could this possibly be enough?"
27:30 90 minutes a day, and why you're not running out of time
30:59 Advice for a pregnant mom in her first homeschool year
36:59 What a unit study actually is: the dinosaur example
41:27 Teaching two ages from one unit study
50:41 State hour quotas and de-schooling yourself
55:27 "You can't learn in a place of fear"
01:01:33 Rapid fire
