...we have leapt into a whole new topic of learning without me really noticing.
It's funny...we just amble along at our regular "just doing" kind of pace and up pop the odd question "what do prison cells look like mum?"..."do prisoners get lots to eat?"..."do the bad ones not get any food?"..."what clothes do they wear?"..."what do they sleep on?"...modern day prisoners vs olden day prisoners etc. Maybe a month back, Nathan had been on a visit with his Keas group to the local Police station (just a little place with a few holding cells) so I suspect this was around the time that the questions really started. And then of course there are always some accompanying Lego creations (in this instance, a few days worth of prisoner cells with bars and windows and prisoners inside with their bed, toilet and food).
So I answer as I can and google what I can over the many weeks that these questions come up (it can be one question once a week and then a flurry of questions on one day and then nothing for another week). It finally starts to take off and I realise that there is a real interest going on and how can I take it further?
This is how it happened with both the Titanic and Pompeii and his focus got really quite intense and came to a peak and it was like he finally was satisfied with what he wanted to know and the questions stopped dead in their tracks.
As we were at the library today I wandered the aisles looking for some books on prisons and prisoners/criminals for Nathan. I eventually went and asked the children's librarian for a bit of assistance. I then was telling her that he wanted to know why really bad prisoners still got food or plenty of food (not that we've ever equated behaviour to receiving meals or not!) and that I'd explained that prisoners are still humans who require to be treated well and looked after. So we found some books on Human Rights.
I looked over one of the these books this evening and really like one of them and can see that it is pitched at the right level for Nathan (maybe for Danielle too, but I'm not sure she'd really understand all of it, and quite possibly not what she is interested in at the moment anyhow). Sure will lead to plenty more discussion I can see.
We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures
4 comments:
what a brilliant idea for a project x
Yes, t's interesting where the questions take us!
Yay. Perfect. We've had this book out of our library. We also have the DK "A Life Like Mine" which is great for discussing basic human rights.
Thanks, will see if our library has that one too. We also got one called "For every child" by unicef and it specifically words the rights in regards to children.
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