Inquiry: What is Homeschooling About?

Every week we have an inquiry that we follow to do research on, to apply skills to, and to complete projects about. Our very first Inquiry was completed before we were even done with regular schooling- to prepare for homeschooling.

Inquiry: What is Homeschooling About

We thought about many things and eventually came up with a list of facts, ideas, and questions. We then took several weeks to investigate the questions and find out answers. Here is what our inquiry brainstorm looks like:

The Eyeball is what we know for sure, what the facts are, what we SEE.
The Lightbulb is what we THINK the answer is.
The Question Mark is what we have QUESTIONS about.

If we come up with questions that don't really go with the inquiry, we put those on the WONDER WALL:

We hope that we can answer all the questions that we put on there throughout the year!

Big Take Aways This Inquiry

• We won't have grades or standardized tests in our homeschool
• We are looking forward to not having lectures
• We are excited about answering questions that WE are interested in
• We are excited about our learning being through projects and games
• We are REALLY excited about lots of field trips and experiences

It should also be noted that all of the ideas for these came from good ole Pinterest posts. There are AMAZING resources regarding inquiry-based and project-based learning on Pinterest that we would highly recommend mining for should this be something you are interested in doing!