I’ve been thinking about how we sort and organize ideas, and wondering how to present the information to the children who will be taking my research paper class this Fall at Co-op. Planning a bulb bed is like making an outline, you have to put things together, and pay attention to chronology, no matter how beautiful two flowers would be together, if one is done blooming before another starts, you’ll never see them together (without some greenhouse tricks but that’s too complex for me!) I thought this game the gardeners play at Blithewold is a great idea! Sort of like keeping a tough scrap book page out on your desk for a while up-sidedown so you can fiddle with the lay out and just think composition, not getting all tied up in other associations.
Writing about gardens, I took the boys and K to Tranquil lake yesterday. Its been two years since we visited, M is now wearing that shirt B is pictured in!
I wanted to see what cool things they have done to the display gardens.
Meanwhile, I got frustrated with the children, because of all their logistics: I need a drink, where is the portapotty, oh, K needs changed,
I don’t think you can wear her backpack style, she’s slipping…when I realized that they were having fun, and all that stuff was fun for them, it wasn’t things to get over with in order to have fun in the garden.
So many day lilies were blooming in the fields, some year when I want to work on the succession of my flower beds, I’ll go there when I have a blank spot, and order a lily that blooms when mine are done. That should fill in gaps nicely.
I Wonder the best way to suggest that the kids fill in gaps in a paper’ s argument, or find information when their outline is thin. I wonder how to get them to actually look for weak spots without feeling bad. Can the library ever seem as inviting as a garden?
My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
