“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.” ~ Jack Hanna.  In this week's coffee break, Carrie talks with Christina Franco of Rooted HomeLife about incorporating travel and field trips into our home education.  In this week's episode, Carrie and Christina talk about the advantages of using real-life and the outside world as our main "curriculum" and how to incorporate more experiential learning into our homeschooling on a tight budget (or with a tight schedule).  This episode is also full of tons of recommendations too!  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and join Christina and Carrie for a little coffee and conversation about creating a "wall-less" learning environment.

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What is your favorite flavor of homeschooling?  In this week's episode, Carrie simply explains the five major homeschooling styles and helps you discern which method you gravitate towards the most: Traditional, Classical, Charlotte Mason, Unschooling, & Eclectic.  If you feel Carrie is missing a few such as the Unit Study approach, online learning, and/or Montessori, make sure you listen to this week's coffee break.  Carrie shares how most homeschooling styles can basically be clumped into five distinct flavors.  Don't worry!  You might have a favorite flavor of homeschooling, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy some of the other flavors in different seasons.  Pour yourself a cup of affagoto (espresso with a scoop of ice cream), put your feet up, and join Carrie for a little coffee break.

Check out these past episodes on particular homeschooling styles:

• The Unschooling Plan:  A Conversation with Rachael Alsbury
• The Moore Formula (Less is More):  A Conversation with Carolyn Forte
• The 5 Big Ideas of Charlotte Mason: A Conversation With Leah Boden
• Leadership Education: A Conversation With Heidi Christianson
• A Passion-Driven Education: A Conversation with Connor Boyack
• Homeschool Rabbit Holes: Rabbit Trails & Unit Studies
• Home Education: A Delightful & Nourishing Feast

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This week's coffee date with Carrie is 100% pure encouragement from God's Word!  Got challenges?  Homeschooling not going as planned?  Is life getting messier each day?  Are the excuses and feelings of guilt piling up?  Feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or under qualified?  If so, then it sounds like you need God to butt in to your life!  Give yourself a break. Extend grace to yourself.  Put the pity party favors away and then join Carrie for a much needed coffee break and time in God's Word.  In this week's episode, Carrie shares  how to have a "But God..." attitude this school year.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, open your Bible, get a bunch of post its and a big red sharpie pen.  You will need it all for this week's little coffee break.  

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It's almost September!  Let's kick off Season 8 of Coffee With Carrie and a new school year with a Day of Dedication!  Before you buy one box of curriculum, before you sign up for any classes, and before you crack open one book, should spend time on your knees dedicating your hearts, your homes, and your homeschooling to the Lord.  Spend the day in prayer dedicating your new school year to the Lord.  A Day of Dedication is a day to spend on your knees seeking God’s face, his guidance and his plans for your school year.  In this week's episode, Carrie shares one of her favorite homeschooling traditions:  A Day of Dedication.  Carrie not only explains how to use this day to plan your year, select a yearly Bible verse for your family,  and set goals for your children, but she shares how to pray over your curriculum, seek God's plan for your homeschooling, and dedicate your school year to Lord.  Before you finalize your plans and crack open those books, join Carrie for this special little coffee break.

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Do you want to replace the word home "school" with home "education"?  Do you want your home education to be more "interest-based" and "child-centered"?  Are you a Type A planner who wants to walk more in freedom? Then you need to listen to this week's conversation with Rachael Alsbury!  In this week's episode, Rachael explains exactly what "unschooling" is (and isn't) and how to create a more "child-directed" learning environment in your home.  Carrie and Rachael give practical tips on how to plan your school year with and without formal curriculum.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, bring the kids in to listen, put your feet up, and join Carrie and Rachael for some coffee and conversation about unschooling.

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In a culture that prizes productivity, efficiency, and success, it’s easy to feel as though you're constantly falling short.  Moms can easily lose sight of joy.   If this sounds like you, then take a little coffee break.  In this week's episode, Carrie talks with Leslie Martino, author of the new book, The Joy of Slow, about practical ways to slow down in order to recapture the delight of childhood and learning.  Carrie and Leslie talk about how to use daily rhythms, self-directed learning, and natural forms of assessment to embrace a slower approach to life and learning.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and join Leslie and Carrie for a little coffee and conversation about the joy of slow. 

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Sometimes moms get caught up in the idea of how they think things are suppose to look like when homeschooling, instead of accepting the way things are actually going in their homeschooling.   Home education can be both perfect and perfectly imperfect all at the same time!  Perfectly imperfect is a great way to describe Carrie's walk with the Lord, her family, and even her homeschooling style.  In this week's episode, Carrie encourages moms to "keep on keeping on" even when there are messy days, challenging seasons, and even months of second guessing.  Carrie shares why it is ok for our homeschooling to be perfectly imperfect.  If you are feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, or discouraged, then pour yourself a cup of coffee and join Carrie for this little coffee break.  

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Creation Science Co-Op: A Year Long Science Study

Are you looking for a different way to learn science this year or a way to learn science with friends?  If science studies have you stuck in a rut, then make sure you listen to this week’s episode.  This week, Carrie shares how you can explore the days of creation as a family or with a group of friends and how to use Genesis 1 as your entire science curriculum for the year.  If you are a Sunday school teacher, a VBS director, or a homeschool co-op science teacher,  you can even use the ideas in this episode for your Sunday school weekly lessons, VBS curriculum, or monthly group activities.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, get a notebook, listen with friends, and join Carrie for this little coffee break. 

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Don't miss this conversation with Christina Carpenter, founder of Bloom and Blossom Home Education Conference on reading aloud and telling stories for creating connections, building relationships, and sharing the gospel. Listening to Christina will inspire you to read aloud and connect with your family through conversations and story time.  Did you know stories are scientifically proven to help build relationships?  A good story can be a powerful connection and communication tool.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and join Carrie and Christina for a little coffee and conversation about power of reading aloud and telling stories.  They even share some of their favorite read aloud recommendations.  

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What are homeschooling essentials?  You might be surprised at the list!  Join Carrie  as she shares one of her favorite essentials:  Family Read Aloud Time.  Carrie shares encouragement and practical tips on how to consistently incorporate read aloud time into your day and how to use read aloud time to learn as a family.  Feed your child’s soul one page at a time and travel the world one book at a time.  Pour yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and join Carrie for this little coffee break.

An extended discussion on how to organize all of your books can be found in our latest article at our blog, Coffee With Carrie.  

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