Homeschooling stuff

It's all homeschooling to me, but I am trying some new things this fall. So, here's the latest.

This week's "try something new" will be making cups. Sag's idea. I'm thinking origami and modeling clay. We'll see if it leads to further study ;-) I may also take them to the pottery decorating place in town, which would be fun.

I started "Activity Logs", just on Appleworks documents kept in folders on the desk top. Here in NJ we don't have to account to anyone, but I do have some archivist in me, and so will attempt to document. I refuse to call it a "learning" log because there is just no way you could know on any given day what a child has learned!

I'm encouraging the kids to journal once a week. We're starting in notebooks, big, bold, blank books that Cap gave the kids a few years ago.

Swimming starts Thursday. Sag is likely not returning to drumming this fall.

Rounding out the week is learning the songs for the Finnish relatives, writing some thank you cards, playing, reading, drawing, etc. etc.