Friday is here.....................

Yay its Friday and so far its a good one! 8am I was on the phone and booked the children into their science workshops! I am so happy as they fill up fast! So for $66 I have booked all 4 children into science workshops for THREE days......it's like $5 a workshop!!!!! Classes like Forensics Lab and Electric car garage..............even Abigail is booked into classes.

So then at 9am I booked them into city classes. I am so happy that all the classes we wanted were available........I was so worried they would be full already.....the girl on the phone said they have been sooo busy taking bookings :)

We have also booked flights and villa for our big trip :) so today has been a good day :)

Chris and Abby are playing Risk right now and Laurie and Susie are playing a math dice game similar to Yahtzee but involving multiplication.................Sam is asleep......I've been pottering around booking things and vacuuming and stuff.............

We are heading to the library at some point today...............I offered to take them to the SHINE park day yesterday and also to the Odyssium today as a few families are going but they said no........they are waiting for the new exhibit at the Odyssium before they want to go back again ...so probably when we go for the workshop......................

Oh and now they are playing a history of Canada game.............they just came to ask me how many provinces there are in Canada as the answer card said 10 but they had counted 13 on our wall map of Canada....so Chris says the Territories don't count........so we checked online and he is right.......so we learnt something new today........10 provinces and 3 Territories.....so what is the difference between a province and a Territory......????? They are researching this now :)

I love unschooling.......it works so much better than 'schooling' at home............the last two days I have 'encouraged' (ok pushed) them to do 'some' work........and it was stressful and I have no diea if anything was actually learnt...so today we are returning to unschooling and LOOK at how much learning is already taking place!!!!!

And Chris has been in touch with the Japanese Consulate and they are sending hima ton of stuff on Japan.......he has been learning more of the language and he has a list of books he wants to get out of the library including one on the Japanese religion (I forget the name lol) and one on architecture........and none of this has come from me....................this is UNSCHOOLING at its best...............

Oh and on the news this morning they showed all the knives confiscated from school kids in Edmonton.................hundreds of 'weapons' that kids as young as grade 6 carry for protection!!!!! They interviewed a teacher and she seemed so nonchalant about it all...she said its sad but thats what life is like these days......................WTF????????????????