Wed. March 18, 2009

Our morning routine was a little less hectic this morning because we had to attend my Aunt's funeral. Before leaving at 9am (90 minutes later than usual) Connor completed 5 more Math pages, wrote an email letter to our Chinese teacher (in Chinese), and to his penpal in California. Then we left for the funeral. It was a long drive, and in the car we listened to Chinese and Connor read the last few chapters of the historical fiction, The Witch of Blackbird Pond. I dropped him off at his boat-building class at noon, after the very long funeral Mass. I will have him blog about the boat-building class below.After the YMCA boat-building class, Connor went to his guitar lesson (at 4p) and then played Chemistry and Math games on Freerice.com. Now, it's 5:30pm and after he blogs about his day (below) we will officially end our school day. He will, of course, read for at least an hour before bed too. We never really end our school day, as Connor often reminds me.

This is Connor:
Hello everyone! Today,we got to the boat class late so I ate lunch first. After that, we had to twist tie(with special clips) the boat to keep it together. That took about an hour. Then some people found a boat in the forest so we got to repair it. There were two cracks. To repair the damage, we cut the cracks to make them bigger. If you don't cut them to make them bigger, the cracks will continue to ruin the boat. After that, we put fiberglass on the boat, and then put resin to reinforce the fiberglass. After that, we played for about 15-25 minutes. Then the class was over.