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I'll give y'all an update on our various pursuits in the world of academia.

Last week, I had three days of teacher meetings at Liberty.  Lots of it was quite mundane - procedures, etc., but some of it was teaching methods, etc. that make classical education distinctive and that was fun stuff.  It was also fun to get to know the other teachers and spend some time feeling like a part of the faculty. 

Last night was Back to School night where all of the parents and students come and we talk about the upcoming school year.  It all went well, I think.  This year, we will have eighteen boys and three girls!  Oh, my. 

William thinks it's cool to be a fifth grader.  Not only does he have the prestige of being one of the oldest students in the Lower School, but this year he's not all new to the school so he knows teachers and students, classroom and procedures.  He's on his own turf.  And, of course, he thinks it's cool that there are seventeen other boys in his class.   

Of course, Back to School night was preceded by many days of cleaning, sorting, moving, and even painting, in our classroom.  On Monday, Wm and I painted one wall of the classroom a beautiful sage green and it looks great, if I do say so myself.  It was worth the three days of sore muscles and stiff neck afterward! 

Now if there were such an easy solution to the inordinate amount of heat in our classroom, all would be well.  The classroom gets the sun in the windows all day long and by afternoon and evening, it is a sauna.  I can't wait to find out what it smells like in the afternoons after recess and gym class! 

So, with Back to School night over, we now set our sights on the First Day of School. 

The Shaw School for the Gifted and Talented will not start until after the first week of school at Liberty.  My pupils have kept in practice pretty well over the summer - amazing how school work so easily fills those long summer mornings.  I do need to do a bit more organizing and planning before the year starts, but I have all the books and feel relatively prepared to tackle our homeschool. 

If you are so inclined, please pray for us all in our educational pursuits, especially over these first several weeks as a new schedule always requires many adjustments and lots of patience from everyone involved.  And we're not always long on patience around here.