Homeschool - How is it going?

We're not doing too much formal homeschooling right now. Our lives have become very unstructured. We are basically just reading a lot and wandering around looking for places to swim or run or fish. 

Brave Writer has something called One Thing, which is basically a themed collection of resources. This month the theme is sand. There are articles, videos and activities to do, and you can post your thoughts or pictures of activities on a thread in the discussion board. I like that it's something all of us can do together and other than wrestling with internet, it's extremely low-effort on my part. We observed a lot of sand and sandy soils and sand dunes and dried up lake beds on our way here, so the kids made a lot of connections to the material right away. I failed to document this, as we hit our 180 required hours in April and haven't done much documenting since then. But it's also nice to disassociate learning from school sometimes. Humans are wired to learn, we just do it all the time, not always for credit or for a particular reason. 

The other day Max used some modeling sand to construct a relatively accurate model of the United States (although it was a mirror image). He placed two markers...one on Pittsburgh and one on Truckee. It's pretty impressive that a five year old could do that with such accuracy and I was relieved to know that he was paying attention to our travels beyond counting down the minutes until the next time he gets to play Nintendo Switch. However, I didn't even pull out my camera to take a photo of his rendering, so it'll be lost to the ether. We are never short on geography activities for our portfolios, but I am sketching out some ideas on how to document the next year and hoping to get some technical support from M.