Nailed it!

We made muffins for breakfast this morning and Bennett was getting a little twitchy about wanting to start his morning screen time while they were cooking.

I said no.

He was displeased.

Then I had a "genius" thought - distract him with homeschooling!!

So I called him over to the oven. We did some fractions (if the oven is currently 300 but it needs to be 400, how much of the temp is left to be raised? 1/4th). Then we did some estimating (if the oven has been on for six minutes, and already raised 300 degrees, how long will it take to get to the desired temp?). And then he walked laps while waiting (p.e.). It took seventeen laps around our main floor, 864 steps, and a gagillion despondent looks from my tweenager, in case you were wondering.

We also covered home ec (mixing muffin batter), forensics (arguing for more screen time), science (measuring water and learning about the meniscus), vocabulary ('meniscus'), and gastronomy (eating).

Allman House of Learning for Children Who Don't Want to Learn has closed for the day as the learning objectives were met.

The time is now 9:15 a.m. Nailed it!!

At least the muffins were tasty!