History & Gardening

After telling everyone this was my year of saying "no", I picked up a few extra things to do. Like teaching a History class, and a gardening class.

We had great success with Classical Conversations history verse CD, so we are continuing with that series. Our group is all boys from age 5 to age 10. The second class had two of the boys doing pushups during the songs. (Oh my ....)

Gardening is no less active. We are using the Junior Master Gardener Program from 4-H, and the kids seem to love it. I think we could have stretched this into a two year program easily. Originally I had thought this was a no-brainer for me to help out my homeschooling community, and while I am teaching my kiddos, I will just add a few more. Unfortunately, the prep work for our group is done with my children, so attending the class is really unnecessary for them. So, really I am just doing this for our little community. If you can't have Win - Win, just a Win is good.