Many people put off nature study and the nature journals that go along with a Charlotte Mason education. They put it off until they know more, until they are more confident, until they have a schedule down, until they’ve learned more. There’s nothing wrong with this- to a point. The problem is when a delay […]
Continuing my discussion of living science texts for kids: Regarding evolution- I think kids should be taught what other people believe and why- how in depth is possibly subject for debate, but I don’t think either side should be utterly ignorant about the other’s beliefs in as fair minded a way as we can manage. […]
Science: “‘Scientific truths,’ said Descartes, ‘are battles won.’ Describe to the young the principal and most heroic of these battles; you will thus interest them in the results of science and you will develop in them a scientific spirit by means of the enthusiasm for the conquest of truth . . . How interesting Arithmetic […]
I. Stem Science begins at birth, but for six years it has nothing to do with ‘academics:’ Science begins with: Baths: splashing, floating, dropping things in the water, kicking, and more. Food: smearing it, fingering it, smelling it, wiping it on one’s face, and sometimes, eating it. Dropping things, over and over and […]
I am the Mom who proudly and excitedly brought home a baby shark preserved in a jar, which I found for a dollar a thrift shop. So when I was at the local bookstore and spotted a deep row of these on the shelf behind the cashier, I had to have one: 132 pesos (Philippine […]
