How Unit Studies Make Homeschool Feel Like Play

<p>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&#39;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.</p><p><br></p><p>GUESTS</p><p><br></p><p>Justine LoMonaco and Cynthia Holt - co-foundersm of The Learn + Live Letter. </p><p>Website: https://learnandliveletter.com</p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learnandliveletter/</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>CHAPTERS</p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>01:05 She kept him home for kindergarten and never sent him back</p><p>02:19 &quot;I thought homeschoolers were a little bit weird&quot;</p><p>05:06 How to find a homeschool community from scratch</p><p>11:36 Finding unit studies on a CD-ROM 15 years ago</p><p>17:08 Classical education in a 900-square-foot apartment</p><p>19:22 Homeschooling a second time: &quot;he gets the best version of me&quot;</p><p>23:24 &quot;Could this possibly be enough?&quot;</p><p>27:30 90 minutes a day, and why you&#39;re not running out of time</p><p>30:59 Advice for a pregnant mom in her first homeschool year</p><p>36:59 What a unit study actually is: the dinosaur example</p><p>41:27 Teaching two ages from one unit study</p><p>50:41 State hour quotas and de-schooling yourself</p><p>55:27 &quot;You can&#39;t learn in a place of fear&quot;</p><p>01:01:33 Rapid fire</p>