Fixed: Do your kids consider science experiments school?

[ElizabethB]

Just wondering. My children rushed to finish up "school" so they could do a science experiment that came in the mail today.

 

Evidently, my children do not consider science experiments to be school! :lol:

[Homeschooling6]

Nope! Science, history, art, read alouds, home economics they don't consider school. Not even Greek;) To my dc school is math or English

[RachelFlores]

I even use it as a prize, if you finish ____ (whatever dd is procrastinating doing), then we can do a science experiment. Dd loves experiments.

[MissKNG]

*I* count science experiments as school but my big girl doesn't think of them as school.

[Ravin]

Well, we gave up on formal science earlier this year. DD has since done various things including build a volcano and a solar oven, and yesterday she was estimating the sizes of things based on a pearl necklace...

 

Science is definitely playtime around here, and she has much more enthusiasm for it than she did when I tried to make it part of her lessons.

[ElizabethB]

I even use it as a prize, if you finish ____ (whatever dd is procrastinating doing), then we can do a science experiment. Dd loves experiments.

 

:iagree:

 

*I* count science experiments as school but my big girl doesn't think of them as school.

 

:iagree:

 

I told them they had to do a good job in "school" so they could do their science experiment. *I* considered it school, but did not advertise that fact.

[ElizabethB]

OK, I see a new poll coming!

 

Help me brainstorm overarching categories of things that are not school, here's a start, I would like to narrow it down to 10 categories but include as many areas as possible.

 

art

science

foreign language

math

language arts

history

home ec

geography (will lump with history if need be)

music (will lump with art if need be)

read alouds

[Lainey]

Yep, ds considers science experiments school.

[Azalea]

Two kids, voted no, science experiments are fun. Oldest voted Yes, it is school and all school is fun! (I'm a lucky Mom)

[ElizabethB]

Two kids, voted no, science experiments are fun. Oldest voted Yes, it is school and all school is fun! (I'm a lucky Mom)

 

That is great!

 

My daughter didn't used to consider school fun.

 

Now, she says, "Learning is fun. I like everything but math." My son chimed in, "I don't like learning, but I like math!"

 

(He likes science experiments, evidently that is not part of learning.)

[FO4UR]

School is specifically math and spelling in this house...mainly spelling...handwriting and reading (when it's McGuffey) count too.

 

 

Science experiments are sheer fun!

[Daisy]

Nope! Science, history, art, read alouds, home economics they don't consider school. Not even Greek;) To my dc school is math or English

 

:iagree: This is pretty much our house. The kids think of English and math whenever you mention school.

[NanceXToo]

Well, yes and no. We do science experiments for school sometimes, and so they consider them school...but they also consider them fun and it's one of their favorite parts OF school. And if we had science experiment kits and whatnot that weren't part of our curriculum but just there to do on the side for fun, they'd be perfectly happy with that, too.

[Farrar]

Huh. I said yes, because *I* consider it school. But now I'm thinking about it and maybe they don't. On the other hand, I consider practically everything aside from veging out in front of the TV school and to some extent the kids may as well.