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In a message dated 3/8/03 10:18:49 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<<
We see it all as interrelated and intertwined. How can we trust them in one
area and not in another? >>
Yes.
I can't remember if it was on this list or perhaps at the message board, but
someone was concerned that her children would "just" play legos and such of
she didn't make them do other things.
OH! Maybe it was that eclectic/heretic article in HEM? Anyway....
Here's what my boys have been "just" doing with legos all day.
They have some propellor parts and they've been making different things with
the propellors attached and testing out their ideas over a fan directed at
the ceiling on full blast.
Trevor had one creation hovering, but he's been struggling with another style
that he really wants to get off the ground so to speak, but is having trouble
with too much weight, wrong shape etc...
So he has reworked it at LEAST 20 times and tested it out again and again and
again....
"Just" legos have been a source of learning on engineering, wind resistance,
lift, drag and basic dynamics of flight.
He doesn't need to know all that, he's just having fun. It's amazing what
kids will learn about their world through play.
How could I impose what I think they need, when they so obviously know
exactly how to explore and learn about their world in the MOST meaningful way
for their own life?
I just looked over and Trevor has taken a break from his experimenting to
show Sierra some letter sounds on the GeoSafari. This kind of stuff would
never happen if the trust wasn't there FIRST.
She's reading at five years old, and she KNOWS she taught herself. She says
"you showed me stuff Mom, but I learned it all by myself". What confidence,
what balance, what self-knowledge these autodidacts possess!! It's been the
most magical journey ever. They've taught me so much....
Ren
"The sun is shining--the sun is shining. That is the magic. The flowers are
growing--the roots are stirring. That is the magic. Being alive is the
magic--being strong is the magic The magic is in me--the magic is in
me....It's in every one of us."
----Frances Hodgson Burnett
[email protected] writes:
<<
We see it all as interrelated and intertwined. How can we trust them in one
area and not in another? >>
Yes.
I can't remember if it was on this list or perhaps at the message board, but
someone was concerned that her children would "just" play legos and such of
she didn't make them do other things.
OH! Maybe it was that eclectic/heretic article in HEM? Anyway....
Here's what my boys have been "just" doing with legos all day.
They have some propellor parts and they've been making different things with
the propellors attached and testing out their ideas over a fan directed at
the ceiling on full blast.
Trevor had one creation hovering, but he's been struggling with another style
that he really wants to get off the ground so to speak, but is having trouble
with too much weight, wrong shape etc...
So he has reworked it at LEAST 20 times and tested it out again and again and
again....
"Just" legos have been a source of learning on engineering, wind resistance,
lift, drag and basic dynamics of flight.
He doesn't need to know all that, he's just having fun. It's amazing what
kids will learn about their world through play.
How could I impose what I think they need, when they so obviously know
exactly how to explore and learn about their world in the MOST meaningful way
for their own life?
I just looked over and Trevor has taken a break from his experimenting to
show Sierra some letter sounds on the GeoSafari. This kind of stuff would
never happen if the trust wasn't there FIRST.
She's reading at five years old, and she KNOWS she taught herself. She says
"you showed me stuff Mom, but I learned it all by myself". What confidence,
what balance, what self-knowledge these autodidacts possess!! It's been the
most magical journey ever. They've taught me so much....
Ren
"The sun is shining--the sun is shining. That is the magic. The flowers are
growing--the roots are stirring. That is the magic. Being alive is the
magic--being strong is the magic The magic is in me--the magic is in
me....It's in every one of us."
----Frances Hodgson Burnett
nellebelle
----- snip----- , but someone was concerned that her children would "just"
play legos and such of she didn't make them do other things.>>>>>>>>>
I have a friend who is a retired scientist. She was telling about a science
program she did with low income kids and bemoaning the fact that none of
them had experience with legos and it was making the particular project more
difficult for them.
Mary Ellen
play legos and such of she didn't make them do other things.>>>>>>>>>
I have a friend who is a retired scientist. She was telling about a science
program she did with low income kids and bemoaning the fact that none of
them had experience with legos and it was making the particular project more
difficult for them.
Mary Ellen