"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Halloween being the kids' very favorite holiday (or tied with X-mas at least), we decided to throw a little party in it's honor. 23 kids later, our party was not so little anymore, but definitely merrier! We did some ring tossing...
and gourd throwing...
The boys revisited their intense love of the Target dumptruck that plagued our Camp Out last month and fought over who was the rightful owner. Again.
There was jumping of course.
We even had a pouty princess who forbid anyone to slide past her. I love pouty princesses.
But best of all was PaPa's treasure hunt!
Over the stream & through the woods...
Till the gargantuan bag of candy was discovered!
Papa's map was right on.
After the ruckus of divvying up the loot, Grandma practiced her storytelling to quite an attentive crowd.
And last, the guest of honor, little Miss Stella aka the midget genius.
Happy Halloween Eve!
"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
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