There are so many things I missed in July, I thought I'd try to
backtrack a bit:
June 30th, we went to Shaver Lake and met some other homeschoolers at
the day use area. Such a great group of kids and parents! Jules and
Todd (Theo, Claire) and Derek and Shaylah (Avery) were there, and
that's who we spent most of the day with. I got to meet Meredith, a
friend of Jules' who has 5 boys (she's trying to come back to her
Catholic faith, and told me of a Unschooling Catholic group that
meets during the year... Jules had mentioned it a few days earlier).
Torin really wanted to try out his new swimming skills, but conceded
to wear Claire's vest out in the "deep water". They climbed all over
the rocks and ran around on the beach. There were SO many kids and so
little problems... hmmmm, something to do with most being
unschoolers? :)
Beginning of July.... the arrival of the XBox. ARGH, it wasn't
pretty, but I tried to ride it out and it proved the case that kids
(and adults) will really immerse themselves in a new "toy" and then
it just becomes another option in all options of how to spend your
time. The boys are learning all sorts of critical thinking skills
with Harry Potter and good sportsmanship (we're ALL still working on
this) with the racing and robot games.
Aunt Kelly's visit was fun... we went to Pump it Up and had a blast,
and then were invited to go over to the Malotke's for fireworks and
brownie sundaes on the 4th. Kelly got some awesome pics with her new
camera (that I now have one of) of the boys and sparklers. Dirk had a
flyby/ incentive flight to do, but then joined us over there.
7/7 was the Discovery Center class on Worms, Slugs and Snails. Both
of the boys had a great time, even if the center was TOTALLY
unprepared. We waited around for quite awhile and Roni was obviously
not ready for us as she quickly drew a slug and snail on a piece of
butcher paper as she talked.
