Back to School

We've had year round school, you could say, as our schedule was a bit lax last year; but we brought our 1st grade year to a close mid August so that we had a three week break. We are back into school full-swing since post Labor Day Tuesday. We are excited and enjoying the second grade "Adventures in My Father's World" with the theme of U.S. History and Geography. We have doubled our hours in the barrage of subjects: Bible, Spelling, History, Science, English, Reading, Math.... We finish each day with an art lesson, and the week with a Charlotte Mason inspired nature walk. Ballet for Lydia, Guitar for both, and Soccer for Gabe round out our week. Then I take myself to school this Saturday for a year long course in Nutritional Therapy offered at Seattle Central Community College. Whew! Learning is fun!An Art lesson in straight lines.

I delight to see the spontaneous creativity of my son as demonstrated in his boat. He put the boat together, on his own, in the "in between" times. He picked up the little wooden base at the Labor Day weekend rummage sale with a vision in his head. ...Just like his Grammy.

I inspire to be better about "Nature Walks" this year. We embarked on our first organized walk of the school year Friday afternoon. We didn't make progress on the journals, but boy did the kids successfully enlist Dad to create some smokin' sling shots!