Jack started back homeschooling formally on Tuesday 7th September,
after Labor Day. We had some ups and downs with Jack's Clonlara Online
Highschool, but it appears that everything is sorted now. Lorna started
teaching an American Government class on Mondays and we have some great
trips planned; including one to Washington DC. She also started
tutoring a young lady called Alex. Jack won't start his playwriting
class at Growing Stage until the beginning of October.
We enjoyed a PPL (Pennsylvania Power & Light) program, presented by
Mike
Dennis. It was entitled "Traditional Earth Skills" and we got to try
out various
forms of hunting weaponary and our primitive fire making skills! We
also
presented our "Going to Seed" walk twice, on the third weekend in
September: Once for a local library, and the second time for PPL, at
their
Martin's Creek nature preserve. The feedback has been encouraging, and
we enjoyed
sharing our love of wildflowers and the fun of identification. We also
gave out some native seeds, so hopefully there will be even more native
wild flowers around the area in the Spring.
On Friday 17th September we celebrated Constitution Week, by opening
the church to visitors, and supplying coffee and light refreshments.
The Monday homeschooling group rang the bells at 4pm to mark
Constitution Day. We had a few visitors and the young people enjoyed
chatting to them about their work, and talking about the history
projects from previous years, that were on display.
At the end of the month we loaded up the truck with vegetable oil,
hooked up the Airstream, and headed for Maine for the Common Ground
Fair
- run by MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmer & Gardeners Association.
Take this link
to follow us on that trip.
