Grandmother always saw the world as one big place to learn. Everyone has their part in teaching and learning in it and from it.

An avid fan of Shakespeare, Grandmother could quote The Bard when it seemed appropriate, and this would seem an approp[riate place for one of her favorites:

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;”
Wm Shakespeare, As You Like It, II, vii

With this philosophy in mind, our classrooms have no walls.

We do have a classrom in the house, from which we launch most of our inquiry and do traditional school work. It also serves as our base for exploration, determining where we want to go, what we want to learn, and how we want to learn it.

Our classrooms have been as diverse as a museum exhibit about the history of trains and an airport tarmc discovering the intricacies of fighter jets and their pilots.

We go to libraries, open computers, discover maps, and learn of voyages across the world. We travel in magic school busses, make tornadoes, build volcanoes, and figure the complexity of "zero" on the floor.

Learning comes when we discover who is on what currency before the collection plate arrives, and continues with reading road signs and watching golfers.

Our school is constant, and our classroms as myriad as the world around us!