Our crazy homeschool day....

Homeschooling means many things to us, but today the most important was flexibility.  Our day has gone like this:

Discover a barely breathing baby mole at the back door

Research said mole while eating breakfast
Discuss why it's not a good idea to keep the mole as a pet
Math lesson
Science experiments using polymers (super snow)

Check on mole (still breathing)

 

 

Painting project (art) (I was a model for this picture - see me on the bridge??)

Discuss what RIP means
Conduct funeral for baby mole

Spelling lesson with discussion of prefixes

Learning about balance with "sculptures"

The rest of the evening will include another quick math lesson and an English class video

Our days are not always as exciting as this one (it's not every day we conduct a funeral in the back yard) but we are able to go with the flow.  Neither the science experiments or painting were planned but Reese asked to do both so we went with it.  Homeschool gives us the flexibility to do that.  I can guarantee you that he learned more about the properties of polymers because he ASKED to learn about it.  And how many kids can say they've held a live mole???