This is the first spring that the Spartan Homeschool Team has participated in a full season of track meets. They ran in 6 or 7 (I can't remember) meets in all. It was so much fun! We ran a meet with 22 other schools (and got home at 1:00 AM) and a meet with 3 schools (tonight, and got home at 10:00 PM--Yay!), and various sized meets in between. All of our track meets have been in Tennessee because Mississippi public schools (and private schools that are part of the public school athletic association) do not allow our homeschool team to compete in their running events--both cross country and track. So……we travel! We pack picnic suppers and lots of drinks and snacks. They runners and their siblings have enjoyed the fellowship so much. And so have the parents. It's been a great season! Many personal records were set in various distances. I was a little sad that tonight was the last meet of our season.
Sam bought a ukelele with money he had in his savings. A Ukelele! I have no idea why he wanted one, but it came in today, and he took it to the track meet. One of the older runners helped him tune it, and he is already making a little melody. However, I foresee his practice time being mostly outside.
I have a new book about teaching literature using the Socratic method. It's called Reading Roadmaps by Adam and Missy Andrews. I used Adam Andrew's Teaching the Classics course with Clay earlier this school year, and I really liked it. This summer I hope to pull together a literature/composition course for Clay's 11th grade year. I will study Reading Roadmaps, the American history booklist from Notgrass curriculum, and the books from Core 100 in Sonlight. I plan to choose 8 of these books for Clay to read over the school year. Some of the books will also have accompanying writing assignments. I am excited about formulating this plan.
Now that I am sort of back in the habit of posting regularly (3 days in a row!), I keep thinking of so many things I want to write about.
I hope to be back tomorrow!
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