I know what my goals are and what we do that I count as "official homeschooling" (as relative as *that* is) but what often gets overlooked, or at least not communicated to others are the countless occasions during each day that we've just plain learned something new.
Like today, during our May Day celebration (a tea-party-breakfast held outside in the Fairies' honor,) we spontaneously inspected some Dandelions. We learned that a single flower is not actually that-it's a lot of single flowers bunched together. I remembered that I had a nature story filed away on the subject, too, and after telling it in a magical, imaginative way for my 6 yr. old, my 10 yr. old and I read up on the "facts." (My 8 yr. old listened to both! lol)
Did you know (we didn't) that Dandelions are so named for their leaves? I bet you also thought they were named for their golden "manes." Well, no. The word comes from the French, "Dent de Lion," describing the leaves' tendency to look like a lion's teeth.
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