On the official last weekend before school starts on August 18, we are planning a fun weekend. I have to do a little bit more work to be ready, but most of the time we are just going to hang out together. Lorena and Christian are desperate for some zpizza, so we are going to do that tonight. Tomorrow we plan to attend a going away picnic for a family who is moving from our area up to Charlotte. We still have to buy a thing or two for homeschool–a C++ programming book for Christian in particular, so we will try to head over to Borders on Sunday after meeting. I always get excited about the start of school and with the changes in schedule, we are really looking forward to something new.
The best part of all this is that we have decided to read as many of Kelly’s novels aloud together as we can squeeze in. We could not wait, so we started that part earlier this week. We spent the entire summer reading a book on worldviews aloud and we are continuing to work through the book on argumentation tools. Even though those books are well written, satisfying reads, and quite enjoyable, they are not as much pure fun as novels. I think the joy we derived from reading about Henry Reed, Homer Price, Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Witch of Blackbird Pond and other very exciting peoples adds to our anticipation. These are stellar books chosen by Sonlight. The first one we chose to read is a Newberry Award winner.
Another thing we have decided we need to do with Kelly’s Betty Blonde comic is revert back to black and white comics now as there is just not enough time for her to both draw and color the comics. I recommended that she cut back to three comics per week, but Kelly wants to continue doing it every day. So, after next week, the comic will be black and white except maybe one day per week when she will do a color one. We have not yet decided whether she will make her Friday comic in color or she will create a sixth cartoon each week which we will post on Saturdays. I voted for Friday because of the heavy school schedule she has this year, but am leaving the decision up to her.
So we have all the pencils, clean, new notebooks, and the schedules in place. Now we just need to really enjoy our last weekend of freedom before we dive back into the joys of learning.
The Wittingshire blog had a great video up today that is a perfect segue into our new homeschool year.
April 28, 2004 (No. 2) – Stepper Motor Controller ($)
April 29, 2004 – Computer controlled automation project