Unschool

Following yesterday’s school trauma, I’ve decided to take a short break, mostly from the written work. We started with a few rounds of dominoes, then made and flew paper airplanes, followed by the building of their Junior Tradesman house with bricks and sand. The boys enjoyed doing that although I had one boy trying to spread the cement finely like margarine, and another boy slathering it on so generously that it squelched out the sides each time another brick was added. It looked pretty good in the end though. That took us up to tenzees, after which we did the science and read-aloud. I was conscious of trying to let ‘boys be boys’ regarding shuffling and fidgeting but had to draw the line at boy #2 picking his toenails.
Nick went to collect the 500 copies of the book he had published and is very pleased with the result. We will sell them for ₤8 per copy as a fundraising venture – all proceeds to the rockfall relief fund.

Caleb harvested the first of his vegetables – very proud of his solitary radish.
Nick and I took a fabulous sunset walk on the golf course where flocks of red cardinals and java sparrows were having dinner.