Pyramid Builders
January 15th, 2006 at 6:54 pm (Unschooling Life)
The other day, Kenzie and I decided to play around with a new set of double-twelve dominoes his great-grandmother had given him for Christmas. At first, we actually played dominoes. Then, we set up domino runs and knocked over long, curving lines of them. That led to building little houses with them, and finally making pyramids. The 91 dominoes made a perfect Aztec-type pyramid, which we decided to look up in a few of our books on pyramids and Aztecs. That led to a long talk about different pyramid types. We also talked about the pattern used to make the pyramids - how they got smaller as they grew taller, and the math behind this. We finally cleaned the dominoes off the table before dinner and put away all the books we’d been flipping through.
Marcella said,
January 16, 2006 at 9:59 pm
This is one of my favorite blogs! I think it’s because it gives such a clear picture of unschooling,especially all the little details! Please keep blogging. Marcella
Shana Ronayne Hickman said,
January 16, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Thanks so much, Marcella!! It always makes me smile when someone lets me know they enjoy the blog.
) Hopefully, the posts won’t be quite so erratic now that the holidays are over.