I love how learning happens when kids just follow their interests. This morning Pete & Billy were playing a quick game of the computer game Civilization (one of those ones where you build your own country etc). They chose Egypt as their country.
I "happened to mention" that we had a cool book on Egypt (a gorgeous book called Egyptology), got it down off the shelf and put it on the coffee table. A couple of hours later, Billy brought the book over to me and we had a snuggle while we looked through it.
At various other times through this afternoon, he looked up where Egypt was on the map (blue-tacked on our schoolroom wall) and looked at what their flag looked like (another poster on our wall). He just pulled out a ruler his Ma (my MIL) had brought back from Egypt for him with hieroglyphic characters to trace, and "wrote" his name in hieroglyphics!
Ah, the power of "strewing"!
5 comments:
What a fabulous idea!. I had not come across strewing in this sense before, but it sounds like a great thing to do. You have inspired me to do this sort of thing myself (more consciously, anyway).
Kate
Yes, I love to get out old things the girls haven't looked at in a while and leave them about the house for them to pick up and look through. The breakfast bar seems to be a particularly clever place to "accidentally" leave something "lying about." :)
I wish somebody would strew interesting things for me!! :)
How is your cutting back on computer time going? I hope you're not reading this on Sunday (when I'm writing it!!)! LOL! :)
It's a great way to introduce new things without forcing them to learn something.
Sometimes it doesn't work - they'll have no interest, but hey, that's ok too - I don't have interest in everything I see!
Mrs P - yes it'd be nice if someone strewed for us :)
I'm about to blog about my computer time - it's going pretty well!
Kez, I've never heard the term before but will happily adopt it. Homemade pasta is the best. We had it on Saturday night too.....weird.
Lisa x
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