Today was one of those days my children love!  When they woke up I said, "Mom has declared an unschooling day.  Now, GO LEARN!"  I had to take Maddie and Tyler to piano in the middle of the day and desperately needed to get some work done around the house and some errands run so this seemed like the best way to accomplish that.

My stipulations on these days is that they play no video games, don't watch TV or read junk.  They must learn!  And boy, did they!

Wes studied Stonehenge.  He looked into various theories about how the stones were moved there, why it was made, etc.  Tomorrow he'll write up his theory and back it up with some facts.

Tyler studied his piano more in depth.  He tends to play by ear and really needed to study reading the notes.  He also worked on multiplication with decimals and did some independent reading.

Mary Madison worked on math alone.  She is really wanting to move up to the next level in her workbooks so she did that.  And, she worked on a play she's doing with the homeschool co-op this weekend and ended up doing some studying of the history of Thanksgiving to go along with that.  Plus, she gave the dog a bath!!

When the boys got done with some of that work, they decided to play learning games.  They played Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader and did a form of BINGO I can't even understand, lol.  They love to add twists and turns to things in order to make them more complicated~thus sharpening their reasoning skills.

We also got lots of straightening up and chore work out of the way, which always feels good.

I am so grateful to see my kids being more proactive with their learning and chores.  And, to see the blossoming of my prayer life a bit after a period of staleness. I just have to thank the Father~He indeed is so good.

Today's workout:  Slim Series Mix It Up (high rep, low weight workout with some cardio).