Playing in the sprinkler
It was a hot day yesterday. After school, the kids played in the sprinkler for the first time. Today is the last day of school for the year, so Kelly and Christian spent yesterday evening cleaning up the bonus room where we have the computers and do a lot of the school work. They really do not have much academic work left. Kelly has piano, some math corrections, reading, and logic. Christian has piano, some reading, and some science. After that, they will take all their books and materials for the year down from the shelf so that I can start archiving them to make room for next year. We really need to put up a ton of good, permanent bookshelves so we can keep all the books out and available, but we do not have the resources yet.
We started getting ready for the stuff we will do this summer, too. I had Christian load up the Mavis Beacon version 16 typing tutor on the computer last night. They will start doing 15 minutes of Mavis Beacon every day now along with 15 minutes on the piano. In addition, they are going to continue on their memorization, both so that I can film it for our archive and so that we can quote it for Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita when we visit Mexico. The other project we will start sometime this weekend is assembling the AM/FM radio kit. I will need to get a new soldering iron and an ohm meter to be able to do that properly.
I am going to get both Kelly and Christian an end of the school year gift because they have done such a great job. I am so proud of them I can hardly stand it. The gift will probably be an art kit with pastels or something like that. I will put picutres of that up as soon as I have them.