Picture It If You Will
You’re a regular guy, driving home for lunch to your regular house in the ‘burbs in your regular company car. You turn down your cul-de-sac in your regular new construction neighborhood and suddenly something looks decidedly irregular. A large gaggle of school aged kids and a handful of mothers (one of which you think is your neighbor from two doors down) are gleefully jabbing pointy sticks into a huge mound of dirt on an empty lot that has yet to be built. It’s noon. On a Thursday. In September. What is going on here?
Your neighbor waves cheerfully and promptly goes back to coordinating the pointy-stick jabbing venture. Oh yeah. She mentioned something about homeschooling at the Labor Day block party…… So this is how homeschoolers spend their Thursdays.
Today was the first fun-filled day of my Ancient Scientists class. And those kids jabbing stick in the ground were happily experiencing Prehistoric Man’s discovery and invention of tools. A pointy stick is easier to jab into the ground than a flat stick. Ta-da! Pointy stick is a useful tool. We also explored the discovery of music and musical instruments and the discovery of farming. Next class we’ll be in the backyard instead, but I must confess it sure was just a little fun startling the neighbor today!
