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| Stonehenge |
People often ask us if we take the school holidays off. The simple answer would be no. We don't stop learning for the holidays. Psst neither do school kids!
In fact we don't really change our way of learning much at all although we may privilege certain experiences over others. School holidays are great times to work on socialisation skills, spending time with friends and family who are more available.
It's also the moment to learn new skills or activities that our normal schedule doesn't leave time for. Things like swimming lessons and sewing projects, gardening, cooking and kayaking.
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| Mont St Michel |
Another thing our holdiday's are full of are field trips. On our recent trip to the UK we took in Utah Beach, The Mary Rose, Stonehenge, Glastonbury Tor, the Roman Baths and Fashion Museum in Bath as well as Darwin's House and the Mont St Michel.
Some of those visits responded to areas of interest and studying we've done over the last years, others will kick start new interests and some are just because they're interesting and on the way. Follow up work might include watching documentaries, writing a report or reading up about something we found out that intrigued us.
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| Learning how to shoot arrows! |
So Maya (12) has read up on women's fashion and prepared a report after the Bath visit. Lotta (6) is learning about the iron age and how StoneHenge was built. Noah (8) continues to be fascinated by WWII and has just got a load more books out of the library on just that subject. Visiting Utah beach was a dream come true for him.
Learning really is something that is happening all the time for all of us. But it's not just classroom style learning, reading or writing or solving a problem. It's also learning how to interact with other human beings. And it's learning how to take good care of yourself and others. It's discovering what you enjoy and what makes you excited and passionate and want to know more.
All these things don't stop for the holidays, so neither do we. For us there's no strict time on and time off if you like, but rather a continuum of projects and living and projects and sleeping and eating and living and projects. May it so continue!
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| The Mary Rose in all her glory |
