Week Six - 30 days down, 150 to go!

We are pretty much in a groove now with school. We have rough days (Monday was one, I am glad Aidan did not know it was a holiday or it would have been worse!) We went swimming after school on Monday and ate dinner with Mema and Papa.

We did add two new things to our schedule this week: Classical Conversations Foundations and The LIGHT co-op classes. We are doing CC at home. Aidan took to the history time line very quickly! He did so well with all of the memory work, I don't think we will be able to have some fun with it this year.

Aidan's apple artwork from class.

Lilly's artwork - God creates light.

Co-op was great!! I was able to spend some time in fellowship with other moms! It was nice to spend some time with adults. I look forward to getting to know these women over the next 10 weeks. The kids LOVED their classes!! Aidan's class read "Johnny Appleseed" and did some crafts. He made new best friends in PE. Lilly colored and played. They did a lesson on creation; but she could not...or would not (I don't know which it is with her sometimes!) tell me about it.

A few of the books I am using to prepare for my class!

I started teaching a 10 week class on Shakespeare! I think this is going to be great. We learned some basics of Iambic Pentameter, reading and interpreting Shakespeare, and they were given an assignment - to memorize a sonnet. Next week we will start with either MacBeth or The Merchant of Venice. I love Shakespeare and I have not looked at his works much in the last 5 years. It looks like I need to brush up my Shakespeare (bonus points if you know what show that references)! I prepared this short reference sheet on iambic pentameter to help the class learn to read it aloud (the bulk of the class will be spent reading the two plays as a group).