After hearing several friends rave about it, we finally sat down this morning to explore Khan Academy.
Holy cow.
The boys spent about 20 minutes each happily working on math problems that I would normally have to browbeat them into doing in their workbooks. Then they started watching science videos. A 10 minute session on Black Holes was followed rather randomly by Cell Anatomy, which led to the following question from Gabriel:
"Mom, why doesn't a chicken egg produce a nuclear explosion when you crack it open?"
o.O
"Uh... Well, a cell's nucleus and an atom's nucleus are two different things. The word 'nucleus' just means-"
"OHHhhhh, okay, I get it, I get it, never mind!"
I have the strangest feeling that he might get it better than I do before long.
Right now they're laughing over how much fun it is to say, "endoplasmic reticulum."
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