Paige and Daniel went to Raytheon’s Career Day. Richard signed them up for mini-classes on different kinds of engineering and took them to lunch in the cafeteria. Paige liked the software engineering demonstration (they had a robot) best. Daniel liked the electrical engineering and the robot, too. I am glad Raytheon opened their doors and prepared these classes for the kids.
After the Career Day, we raced over to our homeschool geography bee. We were too late to really do much, but Timothy was able to present his geography project: he sang This Land is Your Land. All the children joined in at the chorus and I felt like Maria von Trapp on the guitar.
Daniel then went to a book club discussion about The Wright 3 at the Billings’s house. Last week they played with pentominoes and worked on codes. This week, they learned about fibonacci sequences and “magic” triangles in nature and in classical architecture. (That last sentence I copied and pasted from Amy Billings’s e-mail, since I don’t know anything about that stuff.)
We didn’t have a normal school day, but I think I can say the kids were well-taught all day. Last night was the first night in a very long time that our family has been together in the evening. We sat and talked for hours in our family room. Everyone was happy. I made a turkey dinner and enjoyed the sleepy full feeling as I listened to the kids tell me about their day. Paige is looking forward to braces (that’s another trip we made earlier this week) and Daniel told us baseball stories. I talked about the Town Council elections that are driving me crazy. Richard told us about a discussion he had on the way home from work. Mark got tired of waiting for someone to put him to bed and we found him snuggled in his crib, sound asleep. Timothy nearly drifted off to sleep, snuggled up on the couch, listening to us.
Paige and Daniel are looking forward to performing Hamlet this summer. I found this series, Shakespeare Can Be Fun! that is written in couplets, uses some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines, but is much simpler for children. I’m totaly inspired by this series. I can just see the boys getting into the sword fighting and poisoning and hopping into a grave. I can just see Paige and a friend acting like crazy Ophelia and the guilty queen. Now, I just need to enlist 5 or 6 children to join us. Costumes, props, etc. will be a great summer project.