Home school, is it really that cool?

Last night Buddy was crying his little eyes out, begging not to have to go to school. Instead he opted to be home schooled for "8 hours" (his requested time, not mine, since regular school is only 6 with lunch and 3 recesses in between). So this morning we started with our usual writing and math homework. Then Buddy decided we should do some science. Then Buddy, being the social butterfly that he is, decided to call a few other home schooled peeps to come and do science with him....

What's that you say? Glad you asked, because I wouldn't have felt right showing this graphic picture otherwise....

The kids were so good at identifying parts, they even found and correctly identified an ovary (of course they called it an egg, but seriously, how smart are they)!!! After everyone left, Buddy declared it was the best party ever. Uh oh, there goes my good intentions of making a boring, work all day home schooling experience (errr, did I just declare myself as a bad mom? Let's just pretend that didn't happen). Hopefully, the boy will return to school tomorrow, otherwise I'm going to have to do some serious research on what exactly he's suppose to be learning (although, I'm pretty sure that first grade curriculum's always have dissections at the top of their list, so we can check that off). So all in all a super fantastic, learning, or was that having fun, or was that fun learning? day!