I am in the middle of working on Electives planning and preparation. I have the great privilege of serving as the Administrative Coordinator for our Homeschool Co-Op's Fall and Spring Electives classes. For 6 consecutive Fridays in the Fall and again in the Spring, we organize and teach classes for our kids, ages Pre-school through High School. To give you some idea of the size of this undertaking, last Spring, we had 41 participating families with a total of 106 children! It is a BIG project!! This year, I am helping pitch in with a few prep-type items, then will handle my job of getting class descriptions and applications out to our membership and getting an estimated 125 kids into the classes they want! NOT for the faint of heart, but doing this part allows me to just be able to enjoy Electives and not have to teach a class or two, which is good for the kids and for me :o)!
During Electives, Thomas will be taking a US Government class, Biology Labs class, and a US History class. He will also be helping to teach PE to some of the younger kids. Benjamin will also be taking classes this session, for the first time! He will be in a Bible Story and Drama class, and a Pre-School Basics class, a PE class, and have Supervised Playtime for an hour! It will be interesting to see how this goes, though I anticipate no problems - Benjamin does just fine in his MOPS Class and in his Sunday School class, which he has just started attending. Max will be in our fully staffed nursery, running wild with the other little fellas! I will miss the first week, but Baby and I plan on being there after that, nursing and relaxing as the kids enjoy their classes and their friends!
I am also lucky enough to be part of a team of incredible women in my Mothers of Preschoolers group. This group was a HUGE sanity-saver for me, especially right after I had Benjamin, and really didn't have any friends with little ones. These friends are there to laugh and cry with, to
go out with on Mom's Night Outs and to join at the park for playdates. I have loved the last couple of years being an attender, and now get to help make it all happen by being one of two Moppet coordinators - we help to implement the Moppets program, where the kids are so the moms can relax and enjoy! I am enjoying the opportunity to serve and look forward to a great year!!
All of Thomas' school books for the upcoming school year arrived yesterday - an in-depth Algebra and geometry class; British and American Literature; grammar and vocabulary intensives; Biology with labs; a 2 year World History survey curriculum that I am developing and creating; Spanish and Bible. It should keep him ( and I!) busy learning! We are going to be starting in the next week or so, to get a bit of a head start, since we will be losing some time when Baby arrives!! I have Thomas' schedule and class calendars all worked out, and will be creating his lesson plans over the next day or two, for at least the first 2 months. That will give us a little bit of breathing room!
Well, I am going to post this and run on to other things that await! Here are a couple of pictures of the boys this morning. Just call them the Beautiful People!
This is Benjamin's idea of High Fashion this morning - fleece stocking cap, play workshop goggles, Toy Story Pull-Up, and one froggy rainboot. With his Baby Doll, of course! True fashion icon, I tell you!
Max aspires to be a ball player. And a CUTE one, at that!!
ONE donut. I only gave him ONE sprinkle-covered donut!!!
Thomas' preferred sleeping space these days. Til 10:00 am, at least, if possible, thank you very much!
1 comment:
Marla, you used to come up with similar "get-ups" when you were that age - including boots. They are so adorable.
Don't all teenagers want to sleep until 10 a.m.? Let him sleep now; he's going to have plenty of busy days once school starts.
Good luck getting all the electives work done - I know from all the past years, that it is a ton of work for you!!
ILY - Mom
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