Education

Today I had a verbal fight with my daughter ... she was testing the limits I supposed and I actually was so tired that my personal limits were very low. Now the funny thing is the result ot of that fight.

We've just finished homework. They had to write a story starting with three words they choose. I will write the story below. What was really surprising to me is: she took her time and wrote, compared to her brother a really long story. Now she told me: take the story and give it to children that don't have books, so that they can read it.

Quotations about language from the book "The fall of the Roman Empire" by Pether Heather, ISBN 978-0-330-49136-5

I was just trying to find translations for the Latin names in Robert L. Freedmans famine food list (the pages takes quite some time to load since it is long and it is just a buffer application for now) What I noted is that for many plants there is just the Latin name. This helps scientists, but not people. Almost none of them are in Wikipedia, but just in botanical databases at Universities ...

Kantele-tv 1/2009 tells about Finnish National Epic "Kalevala", teaches you how to play the chords with 5-stringed kantele and tells about forest.

Link-> School eBook Library from SchoolLibrary.com

Here are the classic books in English for the kids.
Wonderful site!

It was mother's day and I was then four years old. I went into the garden with her uncle and her grandpa. Of course I wanted to collect flowers for my mom and grandma. My grandpa and my uncle were preparing things for eating out there in the garden and I found so many wonderful white little flowers. I really loved them. And so I started to collect them one by one and put them in my basket. There were all these nice plants producing these flowers ... wonderful. Grandma and mom would be really happy.

A collection of stories from funny to educational ... not only for kids.

I just read a letter to a newspaper by a parent who is quite concerned about the future education of his son because today is not yesterday and having one teacher in primary school teaching the whole group of pupils is much more complicated that it was before. The sociocultural context where the pupils come from nowadays is very different.