Forgive me readers for I am a bad blogger…
I mistakenly thought I would keep up with my writing the first week that fall activities started. Mental note…write a few posts in advance when major schedule changes are going to occur.
So I left everyone hanging for a week now with the last Wordless Wednesday. What does a bunch of music books and recorders have to do with me? I am teaching a different class this semester at the fine arts program for the local homeschool group. It is me taking on ten…in a battle to learn to play soprano recorders. Seriously though, the first day of class went well. The budding musicians can now play two notes – B and A- and can play whole notes, half notes and quarter notes. I am looking forward to a squeak squawking good time in the class this semester.
My son is squeaking in my recorder class and is also taking a games class and a cookie baking class. I am still unsure how his last two classes fit into a program that usually focuses on fine arts, but hey the entire local group is mixed up this year. My daughter is taking alphabet art, boomwhacker music (I taught a music class like this in the past) and a dramatic arts class.
The only other activity we are participating in with this group is a science class that began yesterday. The class is an anatomy and physiology class for kiddos around my son’s age through junior high. I am teaching the class for the group. It is nice to be known as the Science Lady….
Orientation for homeschool orchestra is this week. Auditions were last week…that is about all we will say about the audition process. I will just say that my son learned that I wasn’t joking when I said he needed quality practice this summer. He will have this year in the same level orchestra to demonstrate his knowledge of the importance of practicing correctly.
In October we will begin meeting with the local group that is more secular in nature. The kiddos and I are looking forward to seeing friends from the group again. The schedule is still being finalized, but my science class is on the schedule. It will be a variety of experiments focusing on biological sciences.
In other news…
~ My son quit martial arts because he is thinking about joining the local homeschool basketball team. He has never played before, but the group has lowered the age to ten to allow the kiddos to learn to play the game before they are involved in the junior high games. We have the orientation in a couple of weeks. I’ll let you know if I have a ball player in the house after that meeting.
~ My daughter is starting harp lessons on Friday – I will write about that next week.
~ My grad classes and hubby’s final semester as an undergrad began last week. We are readjusting to having homework again. That reminds me….I need to read for tomorrow….
Do any of you participate in local groups? Have activities started for the fall yet?
