Classroom at the Beach
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
Johann is having an impromptu Shanti School (the name he has given our home school) class at the beach. Here he is talking to Tammy and another regular at the Enders Island beach. They had a good 15 minute long discussion about the food web of the ocean and the sound in particular. Together they collected crabs, shrimp, snails and a few small fish fry from around the seaweed clumps.
One of the nice things about Shanti School is tht it is everywhere. It doesn’t stop because we aren’t in our “school room” and while there are regular lessons now, we still have pick-up lessons when Johann shows interest in a subject or item. The lady in the picture above was impressed, because Johann knew that Green crabs were an invasive species from Europe, and that he even could describe how they migrated to our coasts. She said most locals (she’s from Stonington which you can see in the distance in the picture) don’t know that unless they’re fishermen. It was great talking to her for all of us. More confirmation that what we are doing for Johann is not holding him back, but helping him.
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