I think that is what today is. DA has been working so hard all week - but today he is just geared towards play (and with his baby sister at that!). We did read three books this morning to go with SOTW and started Math sheets, but I think that is as far as we are going to get today.

Who else has days like this? What do you do when this happens?

Oh, and FWIW, we usually school from 9-12 ands then 1-2 if needed.

I have weeks/months like that. Ds is only in kindergarten, so I let him play when he want to.
Legos= math
Playing outside= Science
Looking at his car magazine= reading and *gasp* social studies
etc.
IMO, play is important. Sometimes kids just need a day dedicated to it.

Honestly, most of our days are like that. We get a lot accomplished some days - but others (like today) are not so productive. I do ask that he read some to me every day, otherwise he gets out of the habit and it's a struggle. Also, Nathan will do math any time... and often sleeps with a math book. Usually we are lazy and take our time because when he works, he really works and it all works out in the end.

Our day today:
*He read another chapter of "Riding the Pony Express"
*did a page of math doing multiplication of numbers with 0's on the end
*sorted out the base 10 blocks for me (some 1's were in another container)
*worked on some Sudoku puzzles (he was correcting mine- lol)

Since lunch time he's been working on his bird house. Yesterday he glued it all together... today he is painting it. He's also been working with his sister with her little stamps that she got for Christmas.

We will probably sit down and read our next story from Story of the World. And I have already been requested to read Puss in Boots tonight (Adam's favorite story).

I just wanted to add that even with us accomplishing stuff, Nathan considers himself a school free kid. ;) 99% of what we do is not even 'schoolish' the way we do it, so he thinks of our days as fun and games.... even when we sit down and do some 'work'.

Sounds like most of our days. :)

DS is only 6.

Most days, we spend about 15 minutes on a reading lesson from 100 EZ lessons.

On alternating days, we do a math lesson (about 20 minutes or so) from Right Start Math.

Usually we don't acomplish both in 1 day.


I also read out loud to both boys, as does dh.

We're tv free. DS never tells me he's bored. He doesn't ask for any ideas. He's entirely independent in his play. He spends the rest of the day playing with and taking care of his "girls" (our 4 chickens), running around our property/yard and into our cedar grove, picking flowers/herbs or other botanicals for me, building with legos inside and playing with his little brother. He also spends a lot of time swinging from the ropes we have inside our house (we live in rainy western WA). He can't wait for spring to come when we can plant a garden here at our new house (it's not new...just new to us). He spends amazing amounts of time looking through the seed packets we picked out together last fall and discussing the different varieties and what they'll grow up to be.

Not a lot of formal schooling going on here. :monkeydan