What happens when they are sick?

The past few days have been a bit more laid back around our house. Illness can do that to a homeschooling family sometimes :)
Cat has been having issues with allergies and Nate has an ear pretty bad ear infection. It is interesting to me that even when the children dont feel well, they continue to learn. Here is a short list of some things they have been doing the last few days:

• Reading (from starwars technology books, pokemon comics, social studies books, and biographies, just to name a few)
• Puzzles
  
• Study from the book of Acts (Cat)
  
• Math workbook
• Handwriting
• Latin review
• Memory Song Review
  
• Being read to (our current read aloud "A Cricket in Times Square")
• Playing chess and mancala (heres a link to a snail mancala game our wonderful librarian gave us.. the kids will probably play this today)
  
• watching the birds eat the bird seed we put outside REALLY close to our back sliding glass door. The birds are literally inches away from the children (and inches away from the dog and cat.. who are so fun to watch as the lick their lips dreaming of catching thier lunch)
• Making Puppets for a puppet show, writing the script, practicing, and putting on a "clip" to show what we will see at tomorrow showing. (of course I will post pictures of the show..they will perform it today)
  
• Watched the Science Channel (our favorite channel).. How Its Made (from Glass Eyes, to Mirrors) and Planet Earth .
• I can even begin to tell about all the in depth conversations I have had with the kids.. from "What is a Calorie", to "What is an antibiotic", and "How do they take the dogs stitches out.. does it hurt.. what exactly did they do to her?" (we got her fixed..)

All this to say.. that even when children dont feel 100% they are still interested in learning. They are still questioning things and looking for answers. AND even when Mom has had little to no sleep.. and is tired, learning still takes place.


I said a few posts back that I had found Charlotte Mason Methods more my homeschooling style.. I talked about how I had been doing many things the CM way and didnt even realize it was CM. Here is what I mean:

This picture was taken over a year ago while. We went on a trip to the Zoo and I had the kids take paper, and pencil to do sketches and jot down information about the animals they found interesting. As you can see from Cats paper.. she filled the pages up! Also.. I might add.. making sure they wrote the Latin name of each animal. ..

Here is Nate in the foreground and Cat in the background.. on Campus at the local University where we heard the lecture about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Before the lecture started I had the kids do a few sketches of "nature" they found close by.

thanks for reading..
blessings!
r