Virtual Kitchen Table

Episode 36: Unschooling Math – What Does Learning Math/s Naturally Look Like?   What a delight to have Sue Elvis from Stories of an Unschooling Family and April from Modern Homeschoolers join to talk about mathematics and the various and interesting ways that skills and knowledge are developed. We cover a lot – this might […]

Episode 35: More about the Value of Online Community – Virtual Friendships are Real Friendships    *Virtual Kitchen Table is now an online community as well as a podcast. 😊 Check the link above and listen here for our thoughts.  In this conversation, Anne from @obytheby and Eclectic Kids and Kendel from @spark.to.flame.homelearning, join in

Episode 34: The Value of Online Community The Virtual Kitchen Table now includes a COMMUNITY as well as a podcast. 😃 We’d love for you to read on …  Some time ago Hayley had the idea of discussing online community as an episode topic and at first we wondered if it might be part of

Episode 33: Gently Easing into the New Year for Parents and Kids    Following our Episode 32, Being Intentional for the Holidays – Finding a Fit for our Families, we continue the theme of deepening our understanding of what works for us, this time as a new year begins. We discuss our thoughts about resolutions

Episode 32: Being Intentional about the Holidays – Finding a Fit for our Families   We return this season to the topic of Being Intentional about the Holidays and thinking about what will best fit our own individual crew, including ourselves. Keeping in mind our own rhythms and preferences alongside those of our family members,

Episode 31: Unschooling, A Voyage of Discovery – Part Two   We returned to finish our conversation about Hayley’s blog post of the same name as this episode. We recommend listening to Part One first as it will give context to the conversation, but of course if jumping in here suits you, there is still

Episode 31: Unschooling, A Voyage of Discovery – Part One   We gathered to discuss Hayley’s blog post by the same name as this episode. Her post is written as a metaphor – the captain and crew symbolize the parent and child. In this conversation we talk about the idea of our lives together being

Episode 30: The Rich Experience of Unschooling Science    Have you ever thought about what it looks like to learn science in an organic way? To really celebrate it and live a life where you and your kids are interacting with it through passion and practicality? To see it linked to or naturally occurring in

Episode 29: Practical Ideas for Building and Contributing to Community   One of the things that’s been important to each of us at the Virtual Kitchen Table is community, both for the sake of all and also as a way to better support educational options for families. In one of our earliest episodes (linked in

Episode 28: Virtual Kitchen Table: Spot the Learning! How Our Children are Learning More Than We Might Think   Have you ever wondered whether your child is learning enough? Or maybe you suspect there’s more than meets the eye to what they’re taking in through outdoor play, online gaming, the stories they tell, the things