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Dangerous Wonder
Jan. 4, 2008
A Moment of Spontaneous Learning!
On January 2nd of this wonderful New Year called 2008, I was getting ready for the day in my room when I heard this, "Shhhh.....be quiet. We don't want Mom to see this." Of course this received my immediate attention and I poked my head into the hallway and said, "You don't want me to see what?" All three kids had rather large pieces of ice in their hands. I couldn't figure out how they had these bocce ball sized ice things in their hands.
My oldest said that they had made water balloons the night before and put them in our garage overnight (clue as to how cold it's been around here lately!).
I had to stop and congratulate them for being curious and inventive and was quite pleased that they were doing "experiments" because they wanted to. You see, I had just been reading a chapter in the book Help for the Harried Homeschooler , by Christine M. Field, that was addressing this very spontaneous learning because of curiosity. I wasn't more than a few pages past this point when I heard my children's voices! Too funny!
Of course, the homeschool mom that I am thought instantly, "how can we capitalize on this?" It got as far as our bathtub with cold and hot water and then a spontaneous bath by the younger two.
Not bad for our first day of school since Christmas break! Albeit, we hadn't even begun school yet that early morning!
Balloons, water and sub-zero temperatures!
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