Wednesday March 4, 2008

Before Mass this morning, Connor read The Secret Garden. He finished the book this morning. Then we went to Mass, and I dropped Connor off at his Boat Building class at the YMCA again. We listened to Chinese in the car for the 45 minute car ride. After boat building (which Connor will write about below) Connor took a guitar lesson. When he arrived home, at 5p, he read his new computer programming book, and took two tests that I devised earlier in the day on his books. One test was on the historical novel My Brother Sam is Dead, and another one was about The Secret Garden. Here's Connor's post about the YMCA class today.

Hi people! It is Connor! Today was really cool at Camp Arrowhead boat building class. We started to build the actual boat. It was easier than I thought. All we really needed was some good blueprints (of course, we needed to have the plywood and saws too). We had to take the blueprint measurements and print them on the plywood. After that we just cut the wood on the pencil marks. My class is going to make one rowboat and two canoes. We cut the first canoe today, but it still needs a bottom. The rowboat is coming along. A 13 year old boy, named Kevin, helped me convert the bottom of the rowboat to a 4by8 piece of plywood. We finished and cut it with a circular saw. Then we put the plywood pieces away and played outside for about 45 minutes. I learned cutting and measuring, and how to convert a small blueprint from a piece of paper to a huge piece of plywood. It was fun!