History and Geography Meme: 'Playing at' History

"Narrating and illustrating aren't the only ways that children express the ideas that fill them when they are exposed to great materials.

They will also role play their history lessons, dressing up, making up vivid, detailed episodes, acting specific scenes.

Or they'll have a stage and make their dolls the actors, while they paint scenery and make them talk.

There is no end to the creative ways children will find when they have something to express.

It is a mistake to think that nature feeds children's imaginations, or that their imagination works on a diet of dull children's storybooks.

Let children have the kind of meaty material they need in their history texts and historical literature, and their imaginations will be stirred up without any help from us.

The child will live out the intricate details of a thousand scenes that he reads, even when he only reads sketchy accounts about them." -Charlotte Mason

Theseus and the Minotaur
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