This year our family started a new journey. We have two sons, ages 4 months and 4 years old. For the past two years our oldest son had been attending a Montessori-based parent cooperative learning group two days a week. It was a great experience that allowed me to be involved in his early education but it came to an end this past spring leaving us with the question of what was next for his education. After much discussion of our options (our local Montessori school, an area preschool followed by kindergarten at our public school or homeschooling), we decided to give homeschooling a try this year. There's a myriad of reasons behind our decision but suffice it to say it felt like the right path for us at this time.
And therein lies the reason for this blog-to document this new path for our family. We are on a path to knowhere. Knowhere isn't so much of a destination as it is a description of our quest for knowledge. We want our boys to have a love of reading, a curiosity for new discoveries, an appreciation for the natural world and respect for people of all cultures and religions. As we embark on this new learning adventure together I hope that we'll be guided by those priorities and yet open to where the journey takes us. We don't "knowhere" we'll end up at the end of this year in terms of homeschooling, but we hope to have fun as a family figuring it out.
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