Educational Gravel from the Fishbowl
Something new I hope sticks … a weekly collection of writings around the Internet about education.
Seth’s Blog: Back to (the wrong) School
which reminds of one of my favorite Sir Ken Robinson talks
Do Schools Kill Creativity and, of course, another one that made the rounds Changing Education Paradigms
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Bairno (4 yo) has just recently mastered the /th/ sound. Until just this past Saturday all /th/s were /f/s. Earlier this summer we said goodbye to ch being /sh/ and I thought I was going to cry because so many of my sweet Bairno-isms are disappearing and marking the days of his growth and leaving our babyhood days behind. I will greatly miss one of my favorite sentences of his: We’re going to eat Sheeto sheese ships at shurch. Translation: We’re going to eat Cheeto Cheese Chips at church.
Kindergarten: he's 4 and been reading for two years, but he has only started wanting to write.
Today he is doing math work instead of the beloved “mafs” work. I much prefer doing mafs work; it is simply more fun.
Although, today I am having much fun with the 4 yo who just learned to “master” the /th/ sound instead of saying /f/. Why is this fun? Because today he is learning about ordinal numbers!
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Will someone please tell me when the English language dropped the -ly adverbs from its vocabulary.
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, another adverb, or an entire sentence.
Correct: He runs quickly to the store.
Incorrect: He runs quick to the store.
Let us break this sentence down into its parts.
So what does this tell us? This tells us a lot of things.
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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times by Susan Wise Bauer
The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History by Jane Bingham
Classic Poetry: Candlewick Illustrated Classic by Unknown
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