Ongoing effects of Literature

Hello everyone,  I just had a “proud mamma” moment with two of my children.  My two oldest, ages 7 and 5, have been very interested in our current literature book, ” The Trumpet of the Swan”, and have been wanting me to help them learn more on this subject through the internet.  So we have been looking at pictures and reading info on swans for a while now.  Today we were looking at Western Canada ( as this is where the swans were hatched in the book) and learning their migration routs.  We came upon a site telling us that large groups of swans were dying from lead poisoning and no one really knows why.  And also no organizations that could help were doing anything yet.   They gave the name of the organization that would be able to look into and deal with something like this and told us that we could write them if we wanted to.  So right away my kids wanted to write them.  They told me what to say and I typed the e-mail.  They had some pretty intelligent things to say. IMHO  They had retained enough information from this book that they were able to ask good questions and give reasonably good suggestions for why this may be happening!  I was so thrilled I could have danced!  I had no idea that they retained this much because I had not been asking for narrations on our family literature read alouds as I think that they should simply be enjoyed.  So this is just one more confirmation that this method is working well for our family. I am so grateful to have found this site during my search for a better way!  I would like to say thank you to all the people from SCM for making this so easy to understand and start!  This website has made our homeschooling journey so much easier than past experiences.  It’s like night and day! 

  Anyway, there’s my little brag about my wonderful kids!  Thanks for listening!