Aug13

science in wonderland.

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yesterday, my post was a note from a former student

with a list of her top 5 things

 that I had taught her

while in my class

way back when she was little.

we had a multi-age pre-k room

so children stayed with us for two years

 we saw a lot of

growth and change in them

over that span of  time.

she was always

very responsible

a rule follower

she learned to open her mind 

to new ideas, to use her imagination 

we made fairy houses together

she  created art and wrote stories.

in contrast

another student

told me

that he had tried for two years

to teach me something

that i never seemed to really learn

he loved facts and non-fiction books

in the spring of both years

when we’d go out into the woods

on adventures in nature

looking under green sprouts and budding trees

i was always looking for the fairies

while he was always trying to teach me 

that fairies weren’t real

because ‘they were not science.’

 he did teach me a lot about science

 but I just never learned

no matter how many times he tried to tell me

about the fairies

 I always said

‘it depends on what you believe,

whatever you want to believe is true to you.’

 he would just shake his head. 

but every so often

I would see him

peeking under the budding stems and leaves

(where they might be hiding)

or blowing the dandelion seeds

(to spread the new fairy babies)

and just maybe….

—

‘only  the curious have something to find.’

-sean watkins

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  10. It must’ve been interesting to see the variety in thoughts and approaches to life and learning in your young students and to see how they bloom and blossom during their time with you.

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  12. I am with you… there has to be something a little mysterious, something that we simply have to believe. I get science, I teach it, but I often wonder is there something behind it all…. I mean, how can a universe exist without something mysterious… faith, belief, wonder… thank you Beth. Faith and wonder, the age old question. I am with wonder.

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