All about our new pod location and what a day will look like there, with a focus on safety measures.

A quick word from one of the pod moms about why Ruthie's Pod has been a great fit for their family.

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Hi there! I am a mom of two pod students of Ms. Ruthie's, and I wanted to talk a little bit here about why we think Ruthie's Pod is a great fit for our family and for our two kids. So we are a "take it one year at a time" kind of family when it comes to our schooling discernment. We were at a point in our homeschooling journey where, my kids were getting old enough that it was really difficult to wear both the teacher hat and the mom hat with them in a day-to-day situation, and I was really wanting to delegate that teaching to somebody else who I trusted, but I also wasn't ready to completely leave behind the homeschooling lifestyle and everything that that entails. So what I was looking for was some kind of hybrid.

I wasn't sure what that was going to look like, but I came across Ruth's pod and I really loved her approach and her style.

I loved the fact that she does unit studies because that's also what we had done when, when I was doing the homeschooling, to be able to do a deep dive into one subject at a time and really kind of naturally pull in all different subjects just in that deep dive about one topic. So I like that she does that.

I like that she gives the kids the initiative to, suggest topics and choose the topics together. They have to kind of debate about which one they're gonna actually do, and I love that she really focuses on the things that are hardest to do at home, especially when you have littler ones underfoot like we do at our house.

She really focuses a lot on writing and on science, and those are not easy to pull off at home. So, I love that about Ruthie's Pod. I also love that she just is this great mix of a person who is very skilled at imposing structure. She runs a tight ship, I'll put it that way. She's got that structure and she's sticking to it. But she also is a very compassionate person who truly cares about my kids, about all the kids. I love that that I can trust her as an adult who is overseeing the sort of social dynamics of this small group, and that I can talk to her about how things are going. I can be on the same page with her when it comes to sort of the social-emotional development of my kids and what that's supposed to look like.

She just has always had a listening ear when needed, and I really trust her judgment. So, Ruthie's Pod has been a great fit for our family this past year, and those are some of the main reasons why.