Nature walk
When I was a kid, I used to go with my grandmother to the pine tree forests to collect pine needles to be used as bedding material for our chickens. Our nature walks were really magical for me. I remember the different scents, flowers, and how the light came across the trees. My grandmother knew mushrooms so sometimes when it rained she would pick out mushrooms to make a risotto. After our trips to the forest, I would be really hungry so she would boil homemade soup with corn bread and I would eat one or two bowls of it. She used to tell me how the fresh air from the forest “opens up your appetite.”
This week I visited Jonesboro and I saw many pine trees. I also smelled their scent after the rain. It still smell as great as it did over two decades ago…
October 14th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
[...] When he gets into schools in chapter 16 it is quite an eye opener. He discusses American education to Finland’s, schools that are embracing a more environmentla approach, and more. There is a great bit about a school in Florida where students use a nearby river to study math, science, language, biology, chemistry, and economics. Something that sounds incredibly like how many homeschoolers I know teach. Getting out there, getting their hands dirty, and seeing the big picture instead of the small pieces broken off into class sized bites. And, well, there’s just something about taking nature walks with kids. [...]