Here it is!
Heidi
From January of 03. My description of Abbie's journey from Tolkien to
English History
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and I'm a GOOD reader. Because I am a Tolkien fan, I introduced The
Hobbit to her when she was seven. She ate it up. At age 10, she read
Lord of the Rings. She read it again. She immersed herself in Middle
Earth, checking out books of artwork by various artists, writing
about the strengths and weaknesses in the different characters of the
book, and of course, spent lots of time online chatting with other
Tolkien people, and looking forward mightily to the release of the
movie. I let her "pursue her interest"...and she followed it into
Medieval Europe, and British History. She knows who William the
Conqueror was, who was King in Britain when he landed. She knows what
the people were called who lived in England before the Saxons came.
She knows all about Arthur and Gueneviere and Camelot. She has read
all of Shakespeare's comedies, and is right now reading through
Canterbury Tales...again. She walks around speaking in different
English accents: Scottish, Irish, Australian, Cockney, Liverpool. A
true Anglophile, and it started at age 7, with The Hobbit.
Okay. Does that description sound like unschooling? I didn't
interfere with this in any way, besides once in awhile reading a book
she brought home, so we could discuss it.<<
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this was posted about two weeks after I first started here, and the
rest of the post (about Robby's inability to tell time, and
my "letting my kids do their math while lying in a puddle of sunshine
on the floor" LOL it's making me laugh, actually.
though one part of that post:
<<Ah! and herein lies the rub! *If* Robby pursues only what interests
him, he will be going from video to computer game, and back again to
the TV.>>
that is just exactly where we are right now! Robby plays his gameboy,
intermittently with RuneScape online, all in between various
Nickelodeon shows. He did go for a walk with me and Katie today.
First they had to decide who was going to be the Airbender, and who
the Waterbender, and then they talked about Pokemon all the way.
hm
How we do change
blessings HeidiC
English History
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>>Now that I've said that, I'm thinking about my 15 year old daughter.She is a voracious and very good reader. Better at reading than I am,
and I'm a GOOD reader. Because I am a Tolkien fan, I introduced The
Hobbit to her when she was seven. She ate it up. At age 10, she read
Lord of the Rings. She read it again. She immersed herself in Middle
Earth, checking out books of artwork by various artists, writing
about the strengths and weaknesses in the different characters of the
book, and of course, spent lots of time online chatting with other
Tolkien people, and looking forward mightily to the release of the
movie. I let her "pursue her interest"...and she followed it into
Medieval Europe, and British History. She knows who William the
Conqueror was, who was King in Britain when he landed. She knows what
the people were called who lived in England before the Saxons came.
She knows all about Arthur and Gueneviere and Camelot. She has read
all of Shakespeare's comedies, and is right now reading through
Canterbury Tales...again. She walks around speaking in different
English accents: Scottish, Irish, Australian, Cockney, Liverpool. A
true Anglophile, and it started at age 7, with The Hobbit.
Okay. Does that description sound like unschooling? I didn't
interfere with this in any way, besides once in awhile reading a book
she brought home, so we could discuss it.<<
********************************************************************
this was posted about two weeks after I first started here, and the
rest of the post (about Robby's inability to tell time, and
my "letting my kids do their math while lying in a puddle of sunshine
on the floor" LOL it's making me laugh, actually.
though one part of that post:
<<Ah! and herein lies the rub! *If* Robby pursues only what interests
him, he will be going from video to computer game, and back again to
the TV.>>
that is just exactly where we are right now! Robby plays his gameboy,
intermittently with RuneScape online, all in between various
Nickelodeon shows. He did go for a walk with me and Katie today.
First they had to decide who was going to be the Airbender, and who
the Waterbender, and then they talked about Pokemon all the way.
hm
How we do change
blessings HeidiC
Elizabeth Hill
**
and my "letting my kids do their math while lying in a puddle of sunshine
on the floor"**
So, in addition to people who are against television and sugar and want to keep those things away from kids, there are people that think you should vigilantly prevent your children from enjoying a puddle of sunshine?!
(Let's get rid of all the killjoys and bring back hedonism! <g> It's been so foggy and rainy this winter that whenever I find a puddle of sunshine I plot myself in it and really enjoy it!)
Betsy
and my "letting my kids do their math while lying in a puddle of sunshine
on the floor"**
So, in addition to people who are against television and sugar and want to keep those things away from kids, there are people that think you should vigilantly prevent your children from enjoying a puddle of sunshine?!
(Let's get rid of all the killjoys and bring back hedonism! <g> It's been so foggy and rainy this winter that whenever I find a puddle of sunshine I plot myself in it and really enjoy it!)
Betsy
Elizabeth Hill
**
First they had to decide who was going to be the Airbender, and who
the Waterbender...**
My kid seemed to really like Avatar, and watched the episode (the first episode) he recorded three times. (A sign of high interest.) Is there any cool-avatar related stuff, (books, games, webpages, whatever?) that I can offer to him to "support his interest". Action figures? Comic books?
(His interest in YuGiOh is pretty tepid and he really hasn't watched much other anime or read any manga. It's not an area I know anything about... yet.)
Betsy
First they had to decide who was going to be the Airbender, and who
the Waterbender...**
My kid seemed to really like Avatar, and watched the episode (the first episode) he recorded three times. (A sign of high interest.) Is there any cool-avatar related stuff, (books, games, webpages, whatever?) that I can offer to him to "support his interest". Action figures? Comic books?
(His interest in YuGiOh is pretty tepid and he really hasn't watched much other anime or read any manga. It's not an area I know anything about... yet.)
Betsy
Heidi
well, isn't the standard photo on the front of many different
curriculums, a picture of kids sitting at the kitchen table with a
plate of cookies, and all their notebooks open before them, they
smiling and doing their schoolwork while mom beams down upon them?
I was pretty proud of myself, for "letting my kids do their math in a
puddle of sunshine on the floor" and for actually realizing that
Dominoes is MATH! woo! I was willing to let them do their math curled
up in an easy chair, but I wasn't willing to let go of "math lessons"
I just laugh at my old self. I was even worried, back then, that my 9
year old (then) wouldn't learn analog time. LOL Well, he might learn
it. Or he might have to *gasp* always tell digital time. Which, btw,
*I* have never mastered. LOL
blessings, HeidiC who WAS relaxed, back then. Who is now...almost
completely deschooled! LOL
--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Hill
<ecsamhill@e...> wrote:
you should vigilantly prevent your children from enjoying a puddle of
sunshine?!
puddle of sunshine I plot myself in it and really enjoy it!)
curriculums, a picture of kids sitting at the kitchen table with a
plate of cookies, and all their notebooks open before them, they
smiling and doing their schoolwork while mom beams down upon them?
I was pretty proud of myself, for "letting my kids do their math in a
puddle of sunshine on the floor" and for actually realizing that
Dominoes is MATH! woo! I was willing to let them do their math curled
up in an easy chair, but I wasn't willing to let go of "math lessons"
I just laugh at my old self. I was even worried, back then, that my 9
year old (then) wouldn't learn analog time. LOL Well, he might learn
it. Or he might have to *gasp* always tell digital time. Which, btw,
*I* have never mastered. LOL
blessings, HeidiC who WAS relaxed, back then. Who is now...almost
completely deschooled! LOL
--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Hill
<ecsamhill@e...> wrote:
> **sunshine
>
> and my "letting my kids do their math while lying in a puddle of
> on the floor"**want to keep those things away from kids, there are people that think
>
> So, in addition to people who are against television and sugar and
you should vigilantly prevent your children from enjoying a puddle of
sunshine?!
>It's been so foggy and rainy this winter that whenever I find a
> (Let's get rid of all the killjoys and bring back hedonism! <g>
puddle of sunshine I plot myself in it and really enjoy it!)
>
> Betsy
Dana Matt
> I just laugh at my old self. I was even worried,I went to school for 17 years, and I still can't tell
> back then, that my 9
> year old (then) wouldn't learn analog time. LOL
analog time. Other than occasioanlly leaving work an
hour early or late, it hasn't affected my life much :D
Dana
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> I just laugh at my old self. I was even worried,My daughter is learning French this year, and has been doing just fine -- that is until they started with time. It turns out that the teacher is using clocks with no numbers, and is expecting them to tell time using the twenty-four hour system. My daughter who is 15 has never had need of reading an analog clock, much less one without numbers, and now in French. I explained it to her, and in five minutes she could read an analog clock using the twenty-four hour system. It kind of reminds me of when she was a child and she didn't like to tie laces on her sneakers. I bought her sneakers with velcro -- I'm really not sure if she can tie a bow or not. I'll have to ask.
> back then, that my 9
> year old (then) wouldn't learn analog time. LOL
Linda
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on 2/24/05 10:58 PM, Elizabeth Hill at ecsamhill@... wrote:
Advance.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005OARM/qid=1109502980/sr=1
-2/ref=sr_1_2_etk-vg/102-2754646-9840945?v=glance&s=videogames&n=468642
(There's also a sequel Golden Sun: The Lost Age that picks up where that one
leaves off.)
I've heard the term avatar a lot having to do with Hinduism. An avatar was a
human form a god would take to influence the course of human events. In the
Baghavadghita, the holy book of Hinduism, Krishna was an avatar. He was the
eighth or ninth human manifestation of the god Vishnu. He grew up to be
Prince Arjuna's charioteer. His purpose was to advise the prince that it was
his duty to battle his cousins. There's a good short summary here:
http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/lessplan/l000059.htm
Recently the term avatar is used for the little pictures people will upload
to represent themselves on some message boards that allow that. I guess it
follows since they're humans manifesting themselves into the cyber world ;-)
Unfortunately they make it hard to find information about other forms of
avatars with Google. You can try: "avatar earth air wind fire".
The cartoon Avatar is actually American not anime -- so they may not be
quite as quick and savvy as the Japanese at producing products for it ;-)
Though it's the first American show I've seen that actually seems to capture
the story telling of anime rather than just slapping big eyed characters on
standard American stories.
Joyce
> Is there any cool-avatar related stuff, (books, games, webpages, whatever?)Someone said Avatar sounded like the plot to the Golden Sun game for GameBoy
> that I can offer to him to "support his interest". Action figures? Comic
> books?
Advance.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005OARM/qid=1109502980/sr=1
-2/ref=sr_1_2_etk-vg/102-2754646-9840945?v=glance&s=videogames&n=468642
(There's also a sequel Golden Sun: The Lost Age that picks up where that one
leaves off.)
I've heard the term avatar a lot having to do with Hinduism. An avatar was a
human form a god would take to influence the course of human events. In the
Baghavadghita, the holy book of Hinduism, Krishna was an avatar. He was the
eighth or ninth human manifestation of the god Vishnu. He grew up to be
Prince Arjuna's charioteer. His purpose was to advise the prince that it was
his duty to battle his cousins. There's a good short summary here:
http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/lessplan/l000059.htm
Recently the term avatar is used for the little pictures people will upload
to represent themselves on some message boards that allow that. I guess it
follows since they're humans manifesting themselves into the cyber world ;-)
Unfortunately they make it hard to find information about other forms of
avatars with Google. You can try: "avatar earth air wind fire".
The cartoon Avatar is actually American not anime -- so they may not be
quite as quick and savvy as the Japanese at producing products for it ;-)
Though it's the first American show I've seen that actually seems to capture
the story telling of anime rather than just slapping big eyed characters on
standard American stories.
Joyce
Deb Lewis
***An avatar was a human form a god would take to influence the course of
human events. ***
Avatar was also the name of the kindly sorcerer in the Ralph Bakshi
animated film "Wizards." (From 1977, I think.)
Just a little blurb of Avatar trivia.
Deb L
human events. ***
Avatar was also the name of the kindly sorcerer in the Ralph Bakshi
animated film "Wizards." (From 1977, I think.)
Just a little blurb of Avatar trivia.
Deb L
Dana Matt
> ***An avatar was a human form a god would take toOn Joan of Arcadia on Friday, God wore a name tag that
> influence the course of
> human events. ***
>
> Avatar was also the name of the kindly sorcerer in
> the Ralph Bakshi
> animated film "Wizards." (From 1977, I think.)
read A. Vatar ;)
Dana
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At the hospital where I work, Avatar is a scoring system. They send out surveys to all of the patients that come in, and they score us. This is our Avatar score.
Katy
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In a message dated 2/27/2005 11:09:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, Deb Lewis <ddzimlew@...> writes:
He was a colt that won the Belmont Stakes with Bill Shoemaker up in 1975. He was my favorite for the Triple Crown. :-(
~Kelly
>More Avatar trivia:
>
>***An avatar was a human form a god would take to influence the course of
>human events. ***
>
>Avatar was also the name of the kindly sorcerer in the Ralph Bakshi
>animated film "Wizards." (From 1977, I think.)
>
>Just a little blurb of Avatar trivia.<<<<<
He was a colt that won the Belmont Stakes with Bill Shoemaker up in 1975. He was my favorite for the Triple Crown. :-(
~Kelly