Homeschooling Inspired By the One Room Schoolhouse (Heart and Soul)

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Homeschooling has given me a new appreciation for the management skills of teachers back in the one-room schoolhouse days! These teachers were often young women who were tasked with teaching and keeping order in a classroom of up to forty students, from first grade through eighth grade. While the class size most homeschool moms deal with is perhaps three or four students, we do have to manage different ages and grades.

Take a page from the one-room schoolhouse lesson planner to help manage multiple ages in our homeschool. All ages can learn some things together when you do things like discuss or read aloud a text while little ones color a related picture and older ones take notes or follow along. Map work, art projects, music appreciation, and Bible study are things everyone can work on together.  Sometimes older students can help teach younger students and very often younger students can listen in on lessons for older students and learn a lot. Little ones may pick up more than you think by doodling or playing with quiet toys while you and the older kids are reading aloud or discussing a history or science lesson. 

In our own homeschool, we tried to combine lessons whenever practical. Do you combine classes for kids of different ages? How do you manage? Leave a comment and let me know!

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