Honeysuckle Hedge Homeschool Collective

04/15/2025

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04/15/2025

Our younger learners spent this semester exploring the three primary colors through wet-on-wet painting and celebrating the season through a group walk, singing, story and games. We were also blessed to have a baker and Indy-based member of the Blue Sky community join us each month to bake bread and share the joy of grinding grain and forming rolls. https://bakesy.shop/b/all-you-knead-is-bread
February: Red: Chinese New Year (books in photos)
March: Yellow: The Story of the Daffodilhttps://steiner.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Spring-Story-20200411.pdf
April: Blue: The Rabbit, a Japanese Folk Tale.

Games: Jack be Nimble! The Little Brown Bulb.
https://www.wildrootsschool.org/homefolk/little-brown-bulb-a-springtime-game

04/14/2025

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) and Hayao Miyazaki (1941-Current Day) completed our biography studies for this semester for our age 8+ children
I recommend Beatrix Potter as a unit study for her unschooling experiences in London and her patience and fortitude. Her use of her wealth to conserve large areas of rural England is an inspiration. Though we know her for the characters that she developed from the letters she wrote to her grown nanny's children, her work with capturing fungi equally impressive. https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Impossible-Story-Beatrix-Potter/dp/0689206186
Hayao Miyazaki is a wonderful contemporary for our children to engage with. His delight in imagination and dedication to the craft of animation is deeply inspiring. On a backdrop of the war-torn Japan and the bomb sites playgrounds of his own childhood, we discover a man who kindles hope and love of nature and humanity in the films that he produces. The class enjoyed learning and sharing about their favorite Ghibli films, as well as becoming the animator pool for metamorphosis flip books whilst listening to Ghibli film music!
https://www.amazon.com/Fliptomania-Butterfly-Flipbook-Animation-Activity/dp/B01JH4GIXW?ref_=ast_sto_dp

04/08/2025

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Economic Forum, and Unicef (and according...

03/30/2025

In memorium and gratitude to Rudolf Steiner, who died 100 years ago today. For your relentless love for humanity and for asking us to seek what it means to be human. For warning us of the descent into materialism and giving us hope for time beyond that for the earth and us in our eternal dance. For waiting for questions. For your impatience and your patience. For offering pathways to higher knowledge. For igniting the logos.

02/20/2025

The age 8-12 children spent the morning with Alma Thomas, creating their own interpretations of her color expressions. She lived such a rich life and was such an inspiration for our time together. As an aside, the mandala symbol that Honeysuckle Hedge has used for some time now for social media, is oddly expanded upon and shown in full glory in her works. Thank you, Alma Thomas.
This age group will continue with biographies next month, learning about Beatrix Potter, whose homeschooling experiences in London opened her up to the world of fungi and honed her skilled drawings of the natural world.

01/06/2025

Winter/Spring 2025 Semester:

Sign up is by semester. Each semester has 4 on-campus meetups at Blue Sky Farmhouse near McCordsville as well as three optional park dates/field trips and optional recommended Blue Sky Earthschool Festivals. Honeysuckle Hedge is for families homeschooling elementary age children (children turning 6-12 by June 15th, 2025). However, siblings are welcome, and we have a parent-child playgroup as well as independent study for ages 12+ All ages can take part in the interest groups. The on-campus days combine a morning and afternoon enrichment lesson, one of which will be by age-group, the other of which is by interest. A family member/guardian stays on campus the whole time and is required to volunteer in an equitable manner. Outdoor play is prioritized. A communal lunch, bag lunch, is part of our time together.

Dates for the Winter/Spring Semester: On Campus Enrichment Day Meetups, optional park date/field trips and recommended Blue Sky Earthschool festival dates:
Friday 2/14 - Enrichment Meetup #1 of 4 9:30am-2:30pm at Blue Sky Farmhouse
Friday 2/28 - Optional Park Date/Field Trip 1 of 3 TBD
Friday 3/14 - Enrichment Meetup #2 of 4 9:30am-2:30pm at Blue Sky Farmhouse
Friday 3/28 - Optional Park Date/Field Trip 2 of 3 TBD
Friday 4/11 - Enrichment Meetup #3 of 4 9:30am-2:30pm at Blue Sky Farmhouse
Friday 4/25 - Optional Park Date/Field Trip 3 of 3 TBD
Sunday 5/4: May Day: An optional community festival. Maypole and folk dancing, flower crowns and other seasonal delights. Open to all. 1:30-3:30pm. $30 suggested donation or festival pass.
Friday 5/9 – Final Enrichment Meetup. Field Day and Pet Visit Day. 9:30am-2:30pm at Blue Sky Farmhouse

Cost covers campus rental and supplies. All teaching is voluntary. For details on pricing or to get more information, please take a look at the google form:
https://forms.gle/YCnEX2UTfsQoq9Mq7

01/06/2025