Drama! Hysteria! Turtles?

One of my favorite moments in home-schooling so far is the day we went for a walk and found a butterfly that had just come out of its chrysalis and was in the process of drying its wings.  Today was a day like that.

Youngest Kidlet came screaming into the house in the middle of school and, when we got her calmed down, it turned out that she'd seen a turtle sitting on the lawn.  This is indeed big news since in the two plus years we've been here the kids have seen one turtle and that was on the other side of the neighborhood and we'd never  seen one in Colorado at all.  So, we got to incorporate our visitor into the day.  It was art day and instead of doing a kaleidoscope, as was originaly planned, the kids all sketched the turtle instead.  We also discussed our observations of the turtle and it's behavior over the course of the day.  There are some days that come very close to the golden fantasy of what home-schooling is like, and this is one of them.

E.t.A.  The fact that it took me an hour to write two paragraphs around interruptions is much more like a typical day though. ;-)