"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Tuesday's co-op flew the coop and we ended up field tripping it at the museum. Unfortunately for me, I threw my back out that morning and had to painfully shuffle my way around all day but fortunately for me, I had one of my teen photographers to pick up the slack camera-wise:
I'm short on words so here's a quick run-down of the days events.
Sheep heart and lungs, mmmm:
Hatching chicks, a Munchie favorite:
Some sort of pulley thing-a-ma-jig??
Peg play:
Astronaut beds (man those things must be like 30 years old by now!):
Giant honeycombs:
Monster-sized light bright:
And a little heel kicking:
Best for last: Caden cut the top of his head in the "5 and under section", on god knows what, and so the paramedic was called, the museum director, supervisors etc... to cover their butts in case his "head injury" turned serious. Munch was not impressed by all the attention and I couldn't pick him up because of the aforementioned back pain.
Great day in the city!
"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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