One thing I appreciate about unschooling is how efficient it can be. One thing that annoys me about traditional schooling is how inefficient it is!
Take your standard grammar program. The way, year after year, the same things get retaught.
One thing I've discovered is that it is easy as pie for your kids to learn the parts of speech without all that drudgery. It involves two resources:
1. A parts of speech poster you stick somewhere on a wall so the kids can see it. A poster like this perhaps.
http://www.amazon.com/Eight-Parts-Speech-Chart-Charts/dp/0768210704
Our poster is actually one that our Latin teacher made many years. So you don't even have to buy one. You could sit down and make one up yourself! And maybe even your child could watch or even help you with it!
The second vital element are these: http://store.madlibs.com/
If you begin playing Mad Libs with your child from ages say 4 to 7, they will learn their parts of speech without any drudgery or focused lessons from you.
We've usually got a Mad Lib book open on our infamous family room coffee table where strewing abounds. We'll go months not doing any and then we'll go a for a good stretch where we do a few a week.
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