Cheryl

I think you should post a reply...isn't the blogger alerted to any replies,
no matter how far back the blog post was entered? What the heck, huh?
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If that blog entry hadn't been weeks ago, I'd post a response about
Learning for her to ponder. Stuck in the mode of "we didn't learn
anything because we don't know what the developer of the curriculum
intended us to learn" makes me kind of sad.

blessings, HeidiC




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bunsofaluminum

between School at Home and Natural Learning: I just read a lengthy
description of a "disastrous science experiment" involving the
disolving of cocoa powder into water, filtering salt water, adding
the filtered salt water to the cocoa water, tasting it, mom letting
the kids put it all together while she took care of the baby and the
resultant kid-made snacks, messes, and attempted clean-ups, asking
their rocket scientist dad what he thought of the experiment, and the
one kid who did dare to taste the concoction, pronouncing that it was
salty...

it was a well-written blog entry, told with humor by a mother of
four. And at the end of all this colorful description: "we didn't
learn anything." and a promise to fork out the extra cash for the
teacher's manual, next time.

Had it been a post to this list, it looks just like "an unschooler's
day" LOL except for the part about not learning anything.

If that blog entry hadn't been weeks ago, I'd post a response about
Learning for her to ponder. Stuck in the mode of "we didn't learn
anything because we don't know what the developer of the curriculum
intended us to learn" makes me kind of sad.

blessings, HeidiC

Julie W

bunsofaluminum wrote:

> between School at Home and Natural Learning: I just read a lengthy
> description of a "disastrous science experiment" involving the
> disolving of cocoa powder into water, filtering salt water, adding
> the filtered salt water to the cocoa water, tasting it, mom letting
> the kids put it all together while she took care of the baby and the
> resultant kid-made snacks, messes, and attempted clean-ups, asking
> their rocket scientist dad what he thought of the experiment, and the
> one kid who did dare to taste the concoction, pronouncing that it was
> salty...
>
> it was a well-written blog entry, told with humor by a mother of
> four. And at the end of all this colorful description: "we didn't
> learn anything." and a promise to fork out the extra cash for the
> teacher's manual, next time.
>
> Had it been a post to this list, it looks just like "an unschooler's
> day" LOL except for the part about not learning anything.
>
> If that blog entry hadn't been weeks ago, I'd post a response about
> Learning for her to ponder. Stuck in the mode of "we didn't learn
> anything because we don't know what the developer of the curriculum
> intended us to learn" makes me kind of sad.
>
> blessings, HeidiC
>
You might still want to.
Post that is.
She will probably get the comment by email AND anyone who looks though
her archives later will see your comment and ponder on it.


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[email protected]

If the blog entry were YEARS ago, it's not too late for her to get a new
idea. <g> And others might read what you write too!



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averyschmidt

A while back, a schooled friend of ours (probably in 4th or 5th grade
at the time) mentioned to us that he was "really bad at science."
When we asked him why he thought so, he said something about his
science teacher always being irritated with him because his
experiments yielded different results from everyone else's and was
further irritated that he thought it was cool when that happened.
(How dare he be "wrong" and be happy about it!) I told him he was
probably the only person in the class- including the teacher- that had
the makings of a real scientist.

Patti

I just read a lengthy
> description of a "disastrous science experiment" involving the
> disolving of cocoa powder into water, filtering salt water, adding
> the filtered salt water to the cocoa water, tasting it, mom letting
> the kids put it all together while she took care of the baby and the
> resultant kid-made snacks, messes, and attempted clean-ups, asking
> their rocket scientist dad what he thought of the experiment, and
the
> one kid who did dare to taste the concoction, pronouncing that it
was
> salty...
>
> it was a well-written blog entry, told with humor by a mother of
> four. And at the end of all this colorful description: "we didn't
> learn anything." and a promise to fork out the extra cash for the
> teacher's manual, next time.