that we decided to home school our kids.

- Ask mommy.

Ask mommy.

- Alright, good morning.

I am actually feeling a little bit better today,

but my voice sounds way worse.

It's funny how that happens sometimes.

What letter are we gonna learn next Lisey?

- W.

- [Mom] Isaac, you are doing so awesome.

- Especially with my tongue.

(mom laughs)

- [Mom] Does that help you focus?

(Isaac laughs)

- Kinda.

- [Mom] Alright, let's see Lisey's.

(popcorn popping)

Making homemade popcorn on the stove is always so fun.

I just love the sounds of the popping,

and watching it explode in there.

And it's always especially fun at the end

when it's going crazy like fireworks.

- It's coming!

- [Mom] It's coming!

- Popcorn.

- [Mom] You like popcorn, don't you?

- I wish you could pour it everywhere.

You would need to buy a lot of seats

and put it all around the floor.

- All around the country.

- [Mom] Kay, who wants some popcorn?

- [Kids] Me!

- Big bad bunny has long, sharp claws.

Scritch-scratch, scritch-scratch, scritch-scratch!

Big bad bunny has pointy, yellow teeth!

So today, we are painting.

And we don't paint very often,

I think I get intimidated by it or it sounds messy.

But, I really know its important.

I want to let my kids have that

creativity and that sensory experience,

and so I found on Pinterest the other day

I saw this different way of painting,

and it looked creative and fun

and so that's what we're doing today.

(lighthearted music)

Oh that's beautiful, Sweetheart.

- It's a red flower, with blue in the dot.

- So I'm the princess and I have a pet horse.

- [Mom] So we've been learning

about the solar system lately,

so we've decided to do some solar system artwork.

You're gonna do a bug?

And I am going to try painting how I feel, just for fun.

Well that was a big success,

I'm excited to paint again with them.

(lighthearted piano music)

So Caleb is learning to do handstands

in the middle of the floor now.

That's awesome, dude!

Can you stretch your feet up?

- No, this is the only way I can stay up.

I hold onto the floor.

- [Mom] Good job holding onto the floor.

Good balance, dude!

Put those feet up high!

Yes!

Caleb!

That was awesome!

- This is Isaac's.

- [Mom] Alright, so today we are

using this learning activity to work on

learning about electricity.

So, do you guys know what electricity is?

- Yes?

- It helps things work.

- It turns on light switches.

- [Mom] It sure does.

So first of course,

we had to learn about what is electricity,

what is a circuit,

and we had to learn about what is an atom,

what's an electron,

so we've been covering that.

Now, we're gonna learn about

the parts that make up a circuit.

And then we'll experiment with building the projects.

This is called a whistle chip.

Alright, so we just made our first circuit.

Lisey, do you want to push the button?

What?!

Yay!

Caleb, your turn.

Jeremy came home for a minute,

and I love that he likes

to do the learning activities with us.

'Cause he jumped right in.

- Okay everyone, put on your two.

There, turn it on.

(kids laughing)

(upbeat music)

Go.

What happened?

- It's not working.

- [Jeremy] Huh.

- Did I miss...

- [Jeremy] Look at the instructions.

- I missed something.

- [Mom] That's okay, we'll just try it again good job.

- No, I just need to put on this thing then I'm done.

- So I love doing these types of

learning activities with the kids,

I learned so much about electricity and how

our everyday devices work.

I understand it in a way that I never understood it before.

And, that's just exciting and fun to me.

- I don't know if we've ever mentioned why we home school.

And I just have been thinking about it a lot today

because I've just been really enjoying homeschooling today.

So, there's lots of good reasons to home school.

There's lots of great reasons

to send your kids to public school.

There's lots of great reasons

to send your kids to private school.

Every family just has to find what works for them.

And what works for our family right now is homeschooling.

And we really enjoy it.

There's two main reasons that

we decided to home school our kids:

The first one is our educational philosophy.

We really like to see our kids getting

involved in their learning.

We like them to be hands-on learning,

investigating, discovering, being creative, playing.

And we see a lot of value in that,

and them having the ability

to ask questions and find answers.

And we just like being involved in that process

as a family together.

The second reason goes along with that,

but we love the family culture of it.

We love that we spend our days together,

that the kids have time

with their siblings and time with us.

We love that we have flexibility,

we can do what works for our family's schedule.

We can take trips and we can

go on adventures and just have that time together.

You know?

Life is short, so we're really grateful

for this season to be able to do this.

Anyway, with homeschooling

we're kinda taking it one year at a time.

Last year we loved it,

we have loved it this year,

we're definitely doing it next year,

but we're gonna take it one year at a time.

When it stops working for our family,

we'll find a different route

of education that works for our family.

You know, kids are only kids for a short time.

We want them to have time to play,

and explore the world around them.

And we feel like through our

homeschooling field trips and adventures,

and the time that they have to explore and be kids,

that they're able to able to really make the most of that.

- [Jeremy] Whatcha makin?

- Pizza.

- And stromboli.

We're headed to the play Cinderella tonight,

and so I have to have dinner ready

when we get back from our activity this afternoon,

so we're making it right now.

- I did not even know that we were going to the play.

- [Jeremy] You didn't know?

We're going tonight.

So I grew up doing theater,

and every time I come to see a show I just love it.

It's really fun.

- So our nice and nephew are both in the play,

and we're really excited to see them.

And Cinderella is just a magical story.

- So excited!

This is one of my first plays.

(happy upbeat music)

(audience cheering)

(slow piano music)

- [Actor] My name is...

Cinderella.

(audience clapping)

(audience cheering)

(piano music)

- How was the show?

Good?

She told me, "That was good. I watch it again."

- [Jeremy] That was so good!

- [Mom] Can you say, "Good job Blake."

- Good job, Blake.

- Thank you!

- Say, "Hi Cinderella!"

(Jeremy laughing)

Do you wanna give her a hug?

(upbeat happy music)

- [Voiceover] Goodnight.

J House out.

- [Mom] Do you guys see that?

Laura totally cut her hair.