I usually hit the wall with homeschooling around February. At least that has happened every year for the past 4 years. I haven't quite hit that point yet, but I am heading that direction. And as the leader goes, so goes the students. So we switched it up yesterday and threw out all the traditional school and did some fun stuff. We have been studying the digestive and renal systems in anatomy, so we decided to make a digestive system amusement park. This turned out to be one of the highlights of the year and also turned out way cooler than I thought it would. We started with listing some parts of the digestion system and some rides we wanted in our park. Then we brainstormed to come up with names and a map of our park. Then we started creating. The girls had a ball and so did I. Here are some pics of our results...
My personal favorites were the kidney flowers and the saliva pool. At lunch time, we mixed it up again as I said, "Let's go to Pizza Hut!" At that point the girls wanted to know where their mother went and if I was their real mother. Ha ha. When we finished, they gave daddy a grand tour of the park and were able to tell him what each part of the digestive system did. They said we didn't have school today, but I was thinking "oh yes you did and you probably learned way more than if we had done what we normally do." I am glad I was that "other mom" today and hopefully it won't be too long before she throws another day out the window.
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