Yesterday at the homeschool track and field day, they set out one of those play tunnel things for the little ones.......Sam didn't get around to playing with it until the afternoon, but then spent quite a while there.....I watched him with it and loved seeing how much he learned from it. Watching him watch others first, then walk over and move it about, bend down and look through, walk around it, analyse it......then he got down and crawled through, looking very pleased with himself! Then he would get out and walk back around and go through the exact same way.....it took him quite a while to work out he could go through either way...then he figured out he could sit at one end and stop others going though....then he worked out that it could roll......
It's wonderful watching ou little ones learn....it doesn't just stop at those first steps...it goes on and on for life...why on earth do we hand all that magic over at the magical age of 5 or 6 to a school????
Homeschooling....and especially unschooling, is allowing us to see up close the magical learning experiences our children are making on their own....at their own pace...through their own will. Its wonderful and I want to be a part of it all...I don't want to miss another thing!
