A document of our life with Anders and Kuba, filled with photo's, moments, and stories which capture the essence of our life. Who knew that life with two boys and two moms could be this good, or this nutty?
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Beach Math
Our trip to the cape this past week was full of everything: fun, love, automobile breakdowns, frustration, worry, play, sun, big sky, and of course beach rocks. I came straight to the cape after having been at a parent teacher conference for Anders and I think school was steeped into my brain. I was thinking a lot about how to enhance learning and the love of learning at home. I thought about this off and on for hours as I was driving. So, we played a lot of fun made up games that were centered around math and reading and science. One truly fun game we created was a spontaneous game called "Guess my theme." I would categorize this as a definite math game. Each of us had to find rocks and create a small group sorted by whatever theme we chose. If you look at the groups above you can see we had the grown-up and simple white rock group, the amber rock group, the freckled group, and then a few way more fun and interesting groups by Kuba and Anders....the big-small-big-small group, the mama-baby group, the bumpy-rock group, and the rocks-with-holes in them group. FUN was had by all. And it made me think that school on a beach would be a terrific way to learn. We also got to inspect a dead seagull and a small dead and decomposing whale. TERRIFIC. Serious learning going on.
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