end of winter

Happy Spring to all! I am certainly not too sorry to see this winter come to an end....hopefully health will flood our household soon!

Not only did winter end this week, so did the Monday Homeschool Class winter semester! Here, on our last day this Monday, the Homeschool Chorus treated us all with a concert. They had a new chorus director this semester, and she really took it up a notch, accompanying the kids on her guitar. Very nice! J is in the dead center of this group in the back. He surprised me by having a small solo, which he'd never told me about. He gave me a devilish grin as he started his part, knowing that I'd be surprised. Unfortunately, Zoo Boy and The Map Man missed the performance, as they were at home nursing Zoo Boy's ills.

My Sheep to Scarf class, showing off their scarves. Cute buncha kids, huh? We had fun. Not sure why J's not in this photo, he was in the class....hm....

Our final project in my Fun with Fiber class, we made these cute little yarn dolls. Other projects this semester for the preschool set were wool-stenciled paintings, wool-decorated wooden sheep, felted soaps, wool tapestry art, spun wool bracelets, and pom-poms.

The American Girl Book Club put on a play from the Revolutionary War period for us all to enjoy. There was also a ceremony for the participants of Junior Master Gardener, along with a sale of the strawberry jam they made, and a bake sale by the Roots and Shoots group.

Was a very fun last day of classes! Now that everyone is getting into the spirit of putting on performances and displaying their class results, we've decided that from now on we'll have a separate "performance and awards" week at the end of our semester, as fitting in all this fun on top of a full class schedule has proved to be a bit cumbersome.

Spring Semester starts in two weeks (next Monday my students and families will converge on our farm for sheep shearing and a farm tour!). J is signed up for Junior Master Gardner (which he is very excited about), Chorus, Drama, and Soccer (so a full day of classes for him, but he insisted that he take them all!). Zoo Boy will participate in my Paws-n-Claws Farm Animals class, and in a class called "Prehistoric Pals", and will still have plenty of time to play with his friends in the museum and in the outdoor yard. I'll be teaching Beginning Crochet (which neither of my boys were interested in taking, which is fine, there's plenty of time to teach them to crochet if they want to learn) in addition to the Farm Animal class. So we should all have a fun and busy Spring!