How do you extend your own learning? In class or outside of school?
When I was a kid, I would extend my school learning when something caught my imagination. For example, I found an old and wonderfully illustrated (Gustav Dore) edition of The Divine Comedy at a fair for a quarter, and read Inferno on my own over the summer. What a wonderful book!
With my kids, the process seems to happen the same way. Just now, literally, we were all watching a video about a hypothesis for the
origin of the moon.
We got on the topic in the car for some reason, and three kids aged 3-8 stood transfixed watching the video again and again.
I try to expose my kids to different ideas to make them aware of what's out there. I also buy tons of books, especially DK-Reader type books, which give good illustrated overviews of a topic.
Val
