Life Becomes Learning and Learning Becomes Life

In one of my last home school posts I talked about the desire for life to just become learning and learning to become life.  Well today it happened.  We had a science lesson late in the day.  We are doing Apologia Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day.  It was an introduction today with lots of reading.  There will be tons of exciting hands on lessons and experiments but today just wasn't one of those days.  Kind of boring or so I thought.  As the children were putting away their school books I hear "hey guys lets..." (this is always where I listen in because you never know what plan they will have next).  "Hey guys lets be zoologists and sort all of our animals into classifications.  Seriously!  So this is what "unsocialized" home school kids do in the afternoons.  I AM SO IN! 

Animal Kingdom
(Notice Cee Cee top right :)

Phylum Chordata
(vertebrates)

 Class (Mammalia)

Order (Primates)

Order (Carnivors)

Families (Canine and Feline)

Genus (Domestic and Jungle)

Species (Calico)
*Although Payton would like to be, he is not part of the Feline family or Calico Species.

The best home-school plans today were not my own.  The children decided what they wanted to do and how they wanted to learn.  They did it during playtime because learning was fun!  Mission accomplished, Memories Made, Lessons Learned!!