A philosophy of Charlotte Mason is exposure to great literature, good music, and the arts.  So I've been playing a classical station on our AOL radio during the times that Cameron is working on math and copywork.  It gives us the name of the song as well as the artist.  Cameron has been very interested in the names of the songs.  I can barely remember the names from one to the other on some of them but it is about exposure. 

Just now, while Cameron was working on his copywork, I turned on the radio and was working on something in the same room.  He informed me that the song had changed.  I said I didn't think it had but I would go check.  Well it in fact had changed.  He is noticing the differences, even to two similar songs, both with piano and violins.  So I congratulated him on his keen observation, then read him the title and artist.

"Divertimento in B-flat by Wolfgang Amedaus Motzart"

He tries out the words himself.  Then informs me that B-flat is the same as A-sharp (which it is).  How did he know this?  He's been very curious about the piano and even though he is taking lessons, he hasn't learned this yet.  But he asks lots of curious questions about the pieces I am playing.  In all those questions he must have asked a question about flats and sharps.  I had forgotten.  But he remembered and it has stuck with him.

Just had to share what exposure and curiosity can do to a child...to the positive of course.  But this also comes as a warning to me too.  He is exposed to way more than I would want him to.  I also need to keep his healthy curiosity filled with good things.