We've begun our journey into hands on discovery learning and it's making my kids act weird! 

Example #1

Girl7 has become incredibly fascinated with the life of Helen Keller.  We borrowed the Miracle Worker from the library last week and she was watching it every chance she got.  So yesterday, while I was at Costco with all 4 kids, I noticed that she was pretending to be Helen Keller - reaching out to me, eyes glazed over and using sign language to communicate.  Did my fear of man ever creep up!  Then she started spelling everything using sign language - an awesome academic exercise (maybe I should have her spell in sign language during her spelling tests?)- but it was taking so long for me to figure out what she was trying to tell me and I was in COSTCO WITH 4 KIDS!  Boy2 watched her and started copying the sign language.

Example #2

BW questioned what I had done during Konos time yesterday.  I explained, among other things, that we had covered a bowl with plastic wrap, poured some salt on top and talked over it to see the sound vibrations move the salt.  We saw that the louder you yelled, the more the salt seemed to "dance".  BW said that he saw Girl4 outside on all fours yelling at the dirt on the ground trying to get it to dance.  When he questioned her, she explained that it was what Mommy taught her to do.  Boy2 saw her, crawled alongside her and started yelling at the dirt too. 

Example #3

As we've been learning about different composers and music pieces, Boy6 has enjoyed conducting while the music is playing.  I walked into the room to see him standing on the couch, tapping a pencil on a package of diapers.  After finding out that the diapers were his music stand, I found Boy2 pulling his own package of diapers through the kitchen on his way to the couch. 

Benefit of homeschooling - I know where these weird behaviors are coming from!  Can you imagine if they just came home from school and started doing some of these things?  I'd probably think about calling some kind of asylum!

Blessings!

-J