Nope, this isn't some colorful starfish from an exotic nature study =). Neither it is a futile drawing of an image in broken kaleidoscope. It is a Latin Constellation mind map Vibrant Bea has made when trying to make Latin exercises a more colorful and livelier deal. And it works! One of the fun things we have discovered and probably our best find when we went book-hunting at the Colombo Annual Book Fair last year. It is called Mind Maps for Kids (Rev up for Revision) by Tony Buzan.
This book introduces Mind Mapping as a great tool for learning, primarily, for revision. A Mind Map is a diagram used to help the 2 hemispheres of the brain remember, think, plan, organize and sort information. It makes use of color and pictures while retaining information from previously learned subject matter. Revision for that matter, is the most common use for it.
In our homeschool where creativity oozes in some parts, we realized that we can use it in dozens of ways. It makes scheduling, organizing the desks, oral narration, outlining, creative writing, field trip planning, nature study, journaling, unit studies, lapbook designing, story telling, ... and so on, fun with a different twist.
It is a very handy tool for a learning family... I highly recommend it.
"From the Philippines to the shores of Ceylon (Sri Lanka),
here is our own little
"samutsari",
a hodge podge,
bits n pieces,
a swatch,
a patch,
a snippet
atpb, etc,
of us,
our faith,
our home,
and our homeschool adventure..
FOR HIS GLORY"
Widget shows recent, but not chronological, entries. Some are dated months or a year back. I didn't have time to blog it then. This blog is a journal for our family and it gets updated when I can. But it is great too if you find anything helpful for your own homeschool journey.
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