Gotta love those unschooling moments
August 15th, 2008
This morning Ani asked me if Pegasuses (Pegasi?) were in Greek Mythology. I told her I didn’t know where they were from. Apparently she read about them in a Saddle Club book she is currently reading.
I told her to look in the Greek Myths book we have for later in Core 1. She said no, that would be like school. She’d rather go to the library and ask the librarian for help looking it up. Because of course that’s nothing like school.
So then I told her to look in the P Compton’s Encyclopedia. She did and sure enough there is a Greek myth of Bellophron and the Pegasus. Then she decided to get the Greek Myths book and look it up. Amusingly the picture on the cover is Bellophron riding the Pegasus. She read the myth and then told me there was more in the Encyclopedia about it. She spent a little while reading the myths to Cameron.
And then something amazing happened. Fritz brought the Dr. Seuss ABC book over and was pretending to read it to Adrian. Cameron came over and volunteered to read it! He only a little bit, but Cameron actually voluntarily read something!
Though we’re not unschoolers, I really love the unschooling moments. They are always great.
What a wonderful way to start off a morning!
Aw, how great! Seth has just started to pretend to read too. So cute!
I love it! That is so great! Landen isn’t that big into books, but I just cycled his books, and he was all excited, and pretend reading too! It’s so neat to watch our boys grow up!
Thanks for sharing.
I love those moments as well! Those are the ones we hold on to.
Pegasuses and pegasi are both frequently seen, and different spellchequers and dictionaries have different listings.
Of course, there was only ever one Pegasus, so plurals are probably moot anyway…
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