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A fascinating, modern-ish approach to nature study
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My 8yo dd and I just watched a marvelous documentary called Forest, Field and Sky: Art Out of Nature. I found it on YouTube as four 15-minute segments, all in one chunk but with (annoying) ads between the segments. The interviewer travels around the UK, interviewing and observing artists whose materials are nature itself in various forms. No matter how you feel about man’s interaction with the land (and how CM would have thought of the artists’ approach to interacting with nature), the visual richness of the filming is captivating. I hope this link works, but if not, you can Google the title.
As a result of watching this, my dd has just spent the last hour making a portable “sky space” out of cardboard boxes, and she is now going to test it. (“Sky space” will make sense to you if you watch the last segment of the video.) I wouldn’t trade her enthusiasm, ingenuity, self-government, or the conversations we’ve had in the last two hours for a month in a traditional school environment. I am reminded again, as this documentary and my own experience remind me in different ways, that homeschooling has the potential to give a gift of *time* in a way that traditional school and the current world simply can’t give.
And I am so thankful for it.
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