September 23, 2007 – 5:58 am
Last fall, we attended a wonderful program at the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center where the children got to spend a day on the prairie with entymologists, herpetologists, and a woman from Raptor Recovery. By the end of the day, the children were enchanted, I was exhausted and I knew what I wanted to [...]
August 11, 2007 – 4:59 am
During our yearly trip to the Omaha Zoo, I stood captivated at the rain forest floor exhibit. The typically sedentary pygmy hippo was walking along the river bed and as we watched, an adjective came to mind I do not normally associate with the hippopotamus: graceful. It literally danced along the rocks [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I paused while drawing the curtains in my daughter’s room and looked outside. The evening was just beginning to give way to night, and the fireflies were beginning to emerge. I thought about the hours I used to spend catching these little marvels, the countless jars filled with [...]
Picking up from where I left off last week with Koysdar’s poem, To Know a Thing, I have been reflecting on how to encourage my children to “look closer.” I found it interesting that in a quick google search, I found numerous sites discussing the benefit of observing children in education, including some research [...]
My reflections on homeschooling this summer are focusing on ways to building a reflective homeschool and promote vertical learning. My biggest criticism of public education is that it tends to barely skim along the surface of a subject area, remaining superficial and relatively meaningless. Inspired somewhat by Last Child in the Woods by [...]
While many of us are taking advantage of the summer to plan for next year, I thought I’d share a quote which spoke to me recently. In his essay on New Mexico, D. H. Lawrence captures perfectly the essence of my thoughts on what education should provide and what the combination of public school [...]
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