Brains alive! Our adventures have been filled with plenty of exciting learning opportunities and hands-on fun.

We have been impressed by how much Stella's classrooms have socialized her to be a respectful and inquisitive pupil, without suppressing creativity and independent thinking. Hopefully that method of teaching is not itself suppressed by the institutionalization of schooling as the years go on.

We spent a few hours today finding rocks, as diverse as possible; retrieving geology books from the library in Dundalk (props to Susan for tracking down Helen in Dundalk as a guarantor so we as non-residents could get a library card!) ; and starting our scientific journal. Stella and Ronan generated 5 factors for classification and 4 main uses for the rocks they collected. Tomorrow...shells and fossils. (Daddy is having fun geeking out!)