Why is our style of homeschooling called the “Experience Approach”?
WinterPromise Publishing is so unique, we’ve come up with a new term to describe what learning approach we embrace. We is more than a unit study, more than a literature program, and even more than a Charlotte Mason-based program. We are all of these and more. We utilize these learning methods and ideas, as well as adding in some workbooks, a flavor of the “classical” method, and integrate technology. In addition, rippling throughout the curriculum are activities based on “Multiple Intelligences” research. In essence, we’ve taken the best of all these approaches and left behind the downsides.
The result is a cohesive “mosaic” of learning, a multitude of experiences — many different small pieces that together form a wonderful learning opportunity and a chance to build your family culture and make some memories!
This “Experience Approach”, then, relies on wonderful literature, fantastic do-able activities that support academic goals, repetition that is exciting (not simply repetitive!), and a “joy of learning” approach.
The “Experience Approach” allows students all different types of experiences:
Going inside books of quality to ride the seas or blast into space!
Delving into experiments that demonstrate a truth about the world around them.
Trying crafting or building projects that use what they’ve learned and reinforce it in their minds.
Observing nature around them and recording what they see.
Completing interactive notebooking pages that reinforce daily learning.
Engaging in directed play that supports learning goals — like building a pyramid tent or fighting an Israelite battle.
Learning important dates and their significance through games played with our own timeline cards.
Involving themselves in community or ministry service that reinforces what they’ve learned and gives them a heart for lifelong self-sacrifice.
Observing the art and music of time periods and even creating their own!
Building topical, event or place maps that help history unfold and reinforce important facts in history.
Watching documentary films that really take you “there” in history or science!
Completing easy-to-use, well-illustrated or colorful worktexts.
Coming up with their own innovative ideas and seeing how well they work.
Learning Bible truths, and then putting them into practice with service ideas or prayer journaling.
Building a timeline of their own, and even adding their own art, reports, and even field trip photos and memories to it!
To help you remember the core of what we are, just remember the experiences form a “Mosaic” of learning . . .
M – Mason-Inspired Joyful Learning
O – Open and Go Schedules & Ideas
S – Simple, Practical Homeschooling
A – Active Learning & Admirable Literature
I – Intelligences-Based Learning Opportunities
C – Christian Instruction
