Comments on: Welcome to our journey! http://www.practical-homeschooling.org/2008/09/welcome-to-our-journey/ ...recreating the future one child at a time! Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Laura http://www.practical-homeschooling.org/2008/09/welcome-to-our-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Laura Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:49:10 +0000 http://practical-homeschooling.org/?p=16#comment-31 Yup, I love practical life! Now that we're fully settled in from our move, I want to start giving my children more practical life opportunities. Dawn is at that age where she wants to help in the kitchen, I'm trying to think up ways to let her get more involve and am thinking of allowing her to cut the vegetables for the salad. Yup, I love practical life! Now that we’re fully settled in from our move, I want to start giving my children more practical life opportunities.

Dawn is at that age where she wants to help in the kitchen, I’m trying to think up ways to let her get more involve and am thinking of allowing her to cut the vegetables for the salad.

]]> By: Anne Salter http://www.practical-homeschooling.org/2008/09/welcome-to-our-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Anne Salter Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:21:28 +0000 http://practical-homeschooling.org/?p=16#comment-30 I found that 'practical life' (from Montessori) is always one of my children's favorite activities - we don't 'work' at home as in a Montessori classroom (it would be too constraining) but we encourage our children to be very independent at home - the 2 and 3.5 year old set the table, clear their own dishes (yes, a few accidents have occured!), etc. When I bake (twice a week or so), they are very keen to help me, and the mess is surprisingly small. We count together how many cups of this and that, etc, so you are right, learning from 'real life' is much better than learning from books. I found that ‘practical life’ (from Montessori) is always one of my children’s favorite activities – we don’t ‘work’ at home as in a Montessori classroom (it would be too constraining) but we encourage our children to be very independent at home – the 2 and 3.5 year old set the table, clear their own dishes (yes, a few accidents have occured!), etc. When I bake (twice a week or so), they are very keen to help me, and the mess is surprisingly small. We count together how many cups of this and that, etc, so you are right, learning from ‘real life’ is much better than learning from books.

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