{"id":819,"date":"2011-08-17T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:10:23","slug":"the-yearly-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"The yearly question…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year I ask my kids a simple open ended question.<\/a>  The results are often entertaining, often encouraging and always insightful.  I love getting a window into their hearts and their passions.  Much of it I already know (encouraging) but some of it can be surprising as I realize they\u2019ve been pondering ideas or themes I wasn\u2019t aware of (entertaining and insightful).  I like to write down their answers, word for word, in the notes section of my school planner<\/a> and refer back to it throughout the year to guide and influence some of my curriculum choices, field trip ideas and library book check outs.  I encourage you to take  the time with your kids, one by one, and sit down and ask them\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018What do you want to learn this year?\u2019<\/p>\n

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Elias, age 11, entering 5th grade studies:  \u2018I would like to learn about robots.  I want to learn about narwhals and animals that live in Australia and the Galapagos Islands.  I need to learn about the benefits and downsides of logging to research for my book.  I want to learn how to make stuff out of metal and learn some more art.  I want to learn about species of otters and also animals I\u2019ve never seen before or ever learned much about.  I also want to learn about the rainforest and about parrots and parakeets and other birds that are similar to parrots.  I would like to learn more about the red fox and other foxes and wolves, also arctic foxes, I like those, and wild dogs.  I want to learn about knights and history and stuff.  And I want to learn more about machines, and planes- the fighting and the not-fighting ones.  I want to know about frogs and all kinds of birds.  I want to learn about hippos.  I would like to go on more adventures and I want to learn about more artists and inventors.  I would like to to on some go-carts and I want to do different kinds of art, all sorts.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Hannah, turning 10 in one month, entering 5th grade studies: \u2018I want to learn how to sew dresses for myself.  I want to learn break dancing.  I want to do more swimming and swim faster.  I want to learn how to crochet.  I want to learn more languages and how to ride a horse.  I want to be a better draw-er.  I want to learn more songs (to sing).  I want to paint more and do more crafts and hands on things.  I want to go on big bike rides and to the zoo and travel more.  I want to learn about more cultures and people of other places. I like having family events; like movie and game nights and stuff like that.  I want to know how to do my hair better and in more styles than a headband.  I want to earn money.  And also I want to read more books and carve and work with metal.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Bayus, age 6, entering 1st grade studies: \u2018Science! But with real science stuff.  Wooohooo! That is the best, do you think that is a very cool idea mama? Ummm, and nothing else.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, what do you want to learn this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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