"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
With temperatures reaching, or should I say dipping, a whopping -7 degrees (with the windchill factor) we opted for a less severe indoor sensory experience. We tossed our birdseed to the birds and started over with a batch of Goop.
Normally reserved as a summer time, full-body activity, the goop was not terribly messy and kept the kids attention for a full hour. Definitely worth it.
After cleaning that up and stopping for a quick dinner break, we moved onto snow. Except I forgot the snow had frozen and was rock hard so it took a lot of banging with the plastic shovel to break up enough clumps to bring in. That fun lasted about 10 minutes...
And finally we finished off the night with 20 pounds of rice and played til bedtime.
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"By nature people are learning animals. Birds fly; fish swim; humans think and learn. Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into learning by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do - and all we need to do - is to give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for, listen respectfully when they feel like talking, and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest."
John Holt
"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself." -Grace Llewellyn
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw
Real, natural learning is in the living. It's in the observing, the questioning, the examining, the pondering, the analyzing, the watching, the reading, the DO-ing, the living, the breathing, the loving, the JOY. It's in the joy. ~Anne Ohman
"How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?" -Henry D. Thoreau
With temperatures reaching, or should I say dipping, a whopping -7 degrees (with the windchill factor) we opted for a less severe indoor sensory experience. We tossed our birdseed to the birds and started over with a batch of Goop.
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