Home school rocks

 I'm sharing some pictures from one of those "feel good" home school days.  Along with our good friends, our family is doing an unit study of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days.  In an attempt to do an art project for each of the countries that Phileas Fogg and Passepartout pass through, my friend Julie set up a mock Sistine Chapel painting site for our stop in Italy.  The kids were trying to guess what on earth they were going to do with this contraption.  "Is it a boat?"  None of them guessed they would be painting on their backs.  They loved it.  And, of course, we moms made a few little comments about how none of their friends at school were doing anything this cool.  It's all in the packaging, you know.  Fortunately, for this project and for these great kids, we didn't have to coax them into it.  What a joy (most the time) to spend my days with these kids.

 Corban's time table on anything, especially art, is different than anyone else's time table.  He just had to think about things for a while before actually painting anything.

And the final products!