Since we in the homeschooling community do not live in the 'real world' I was curious how others spent their day in the 'fake world'
This morning we woke up and I made the kids some egg sandwhiches. Then they watched tv for about 30 minutes. After that we took off to a beautiful park for a few hours to take a hike and have a nature study. We sat and observed a spittle bug, we observed how it made the spit from the rear, it was cool. However, apparently it is only a 'real world' experience if you are in a little room at a little desk reading about it from a text in which facts to be learned were written by someone older than them who OBSERVED the facts. We then discovered a Praying Mantis and observed how it cleaned itself, how it walked, discussed its compound eyes...but again, since the kids weren't at a desk it wasn't real, oh that and no one was distracting us from the lesson.
We came home and did book work for a couple of hours and swam and went to a resturaunt for dinner
2006-09-13
14:02:28
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