It's Official

We received our little orange card from the NC Dept. of Non-Public Education last week, which means that Stratford School is officially open for business.

I was assuming that we'd just continue on with unstructured summer vacation until after Labor Day. But Dagfari was eager to start "doing homeschool" last week, since all his summer camps are done. So we devised a daily list of stuff for him to do-- a bunch of reading, a page from a couple of math/logic and analogy workbooks that I'd picked up, some Minimus Latin, etc. Our "unschooling" is looking pretty schooly at the moment, but this is entirely at D's insistence. I guess this is what happens when two geeky academic types reproduce-- you get a kid who learns Latin for fun.

D is also heavily involved in a project of filming Shakespeare plays using his many stuffed animals as actors. You haven't lived until you've seen Marc Antony played by a stuffed sheep! I think we'll soon need some video editing software, which I know nothing about. Any suggestions are welcome.

ProfDad and I are gearing up for the start of the fall semester and trying to stay cool in the east-coast heat wave. We're hoping D's enthusiasm for the homeschooling project continues next week, when college classes start and the new schedule is put to the test.