We started co-op classes today.  YDS has 3 classes and his sister has 6 or 7...I lost count!  Our co-op has a very full junior high/high school level "program" and she will participate in that.  It is 2 days and will probably fill most of her week after "homework" is assigned.  I had won a Picturing America grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and we are sharing it with our co-op.  One of the other mothers has a degree in art and agreed to teach with the grant.  Both of my children had her class today.  She is teaching twice...once for the younger group and once for the older group.  They used clay today to sculpt after looking at and learning about southwestern pottery.  Both of my children enjoyed it.

YDD has a literature class this year.  I was informed by her teacher that she was enthusiastic during class and even asked if they might get to read and study more than just the 3 books currently on the syllabus.  I wondered if it could possibly have been my child she was talking about, or perhaps a body snatcher alien.....

 

Both students have science classes with a wonderful retired science teacher.  We will see how the year goes.  It is the first time YDS has been sent off into classrooms without mom hovering around.

 

I get to be hall monitor.  I don't mind being the mean mom who has to corral little ones back to pre-school music, or tell teens to lower their voices.  I also monitor the door to the building we use.  There is an office there for a missions group and there are elderly sisters who live in half of the building so we are not the only people in and out.  It is an old convent building.  We are grateful that we have use of the building.  It has given us the opportunity to have a really full co-op.

 

Dear Lord,

Please guide us on the path of your choosing this year.  May we be humble and loving.  We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.