chutes and shoots
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Someone wrote
"...shoved through the cattle shoot"
There are turkey shoots (poor turkeys)
and cattle chutes (like chutes and ladders, only they're like cattle
ladders, to get them into a truck).
I like words and word histories. Some people were traumatized by spelling
tests in school and might only as adults get an interest in words as words,
with all their history and trivia. So those who don't like words as toys,
ignore me. That's okay. <G>
Sandra
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"...shoved through the cattle shoot"
There are turkey shoots (poor turkeys)
and cattle chutes (like chutes and ladders, only they're like cattle
ladders, to get them into a truck).
I like words and word histories. Some people were traumatized by spelling
tests in school and might only as adults get an interest in words as words,
with all their history and trivia. So those who don't like words as toys,
ignore me. That's okay. <G>
Sandra
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David & Annelise Pierce
On 2/25/05 4:35 PM, "SandraDodd@..." <SandraDodd@...> wrote:
three weeks or so. In that time you have posted definitions to more than a
few words!!! Every time I¹d begin to read one of those posts it would pique
my interest, but I never actually finished any of those posts!! What you
wrote above answered my unasked question ³why². My mom homeschooled all six
of us and LOVED to send us to the dictionary to ³look it up² when we asked
her anything about a word; spelling, meaning, origins, etc. ( we learned
not to ask) Same with maps, thesauruses . . . . I have quite an aversion
now. I have only started to truly deschool, although I think I¹ve been
doing it slowly, sorta, for the last six years since I graduated.
The ideas here and on sandradodd/unschool.com fascinate me, attract me, and
repel me(so scary!)! It feels so right but right isn¹t supposed to be this
easy, is it?? :) My college professor husband and I are listening,
learning, and working up the courage to start the journey . . .
annelise
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>So funny that you say that I have been lurking on this list for the past
>
>
> I like words and word histories. Some people were traumatized by spelling
> tests in school and might only as adults get an interest in words as words,
> with all their history and trivia. So those who don't like words as toys,
> ignore me. That's okay. <G>
>
> Sandra
>
>
three weeks or so. In that time you have posted definitions to more than a
few words!!! Every time I¹d begin to read one of those posts it would pique
my interest, but I never actually finished any of those posts!! What you
wrote above answered my unasked question ³why². My mom homeschooled all six
of us and LOVED to send us to the dictionary to ³look it up² when we asked
her anything about a word; spelling, meaning, origins, etc. ( we learned
not to ask) Same with maps, thesauruses . . . . I have quite an aversion
now. I have only started to truly deschool, although I think I¹ve been
doing it slowly, sorta, for the last six years since I graduated.
The ideas here and on sandradodd/unschool.com fascinate me, attract me, and
repel me(so scary!)! It feels so right but right isn¹t supposed to be this
easy, is it?? :) My college professor husband and I are listening,
learning, and working up the courage to start the journey . . .
annelise
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[email protected]
In a message dated 2/26/2005 9:54:18 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
ddpierce@... writes:
-=-My mom homeschooled all six
of us and LOVED to send us to the dictionary to ³look it up² when we asked
her anything about a word; . . . . I have quite an aversion
now. -=-
I don't usually finish all the math posts. I read until I get confused and
I skim for more stuff about people or words. So I understand when people
don't care about word histories.
When the parents or teachers act like looking things up is only for kids and
not fun, it does tend to make kids wait to grow up so they never have to
look anything up again. <g>
_http://sandradodd.com/aradicalthought_
(http://sandradodd.com/aradicalthought)
Especially with unschooling, it helps kids to see that looking things up can
be fun, and can lead from one thing to another. And from my quick
willingness to pull down a reference book or to pull up google, my kids have been
really generous with finding information for me when I'm cooking or busy and have
a question they can find for me. We've had some of our most amusing
unplanned times from looking one thing up and then another one. Last night Holly
and I were looking up movies and actors and Meat Loaf Aday and bios and had a
good time. The night before we'd been at Barnes & Noble looking at
dictionaries, just for fun!
Sandra
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ddpierce@... writes:
-=-My mom homeschooled all six
of us and LOVED to send us to the dictionary to ³look it up² when we asked
her anything about a word; . . . . I have quite an aversion
now. -=-
I don't usually finish all the math posts. I read until I get confused and
I skim for more stuff about people or words. So I understand when people
don't care about word histories.
When the parents or teachers act like looking things up is only for kids and
not fun, it does tend to make kids wait to grow up so they never have to
look anything up again. <g>
_http://sandradodd.com/aradicalthought_
(http://sandradodd.com/aradicalthought)
Especially with unschooling, it helps kids to see that looking things up can
be fun, and can lead from one thing to another. And from my quick
willingness to pull down a reference book or to pull up google, my kids have been
really generous with finding information for me when I'm cooking or busy and have
a question they can find for me. We've had some of our most amusing
unplanned times from looking one thing up and then another one. Last night Holly
and I were looking up movies and actors and Meat Loaf Aday and bios and had a
good time. The night before we'd been at Barnes & Noble looking at
dictionaries, just for fun!
Sandra
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Cally Brown
> When the parents or teachers act like looking things up is only forBut..... I LOVE looking things up. Dictionaries and atlases are
> kids and
> not fun, it does tend to make kids wait to grow up so they never have to
> look anything up again. <g>
wonderful things! I have shown my kids how they work, but never told
them to go look it up. And they never do - they seem to think that they
should always ask me, because if I don't know I'll look it up and that's
so much easier - and so much fun for me! I guess one day, when they
have left home, they'll learn to do it for themselves - or will they
just text me? Hmmmm.
Cally