Kevin joined us in the schoolroom today and we had a great time showing him all the stuff we've been working on. We talked a lot about Labor Day and did a couple of little projects about the holiday. Lucy Clare had to go through magazines and make a collage of workers but Kevin, who was helping her, said that my scrap pile of magazines were only Parenting/Domestic ones and only had pictures of mothers in them. I told Lucy Clare that they were working the hardest anyway so she could use them but they did manage to find a few other professions for her picture, too.

Connie and Belle had to come up with an occupation or community helper for each letter of the alphabet and while some of them were certainly borderline (yo-yo-maker and xylophone fixer) they did a very creative job with the task. They also started a new writing program today that we're very excited about.

Journals were more about Labor Day and what they wanted to be, why, and what they need to do to accomplish their goals. Molly, who can only write her name so far, "reads" hers from her notebook and hopefully I can add it below. In case you can't understand what she's saying, she wants to be a builder, a penguin and a ballerina teacher. She doesn't go into much detail on the actual accomplishment part of the assignment, but does point out how much fun it would be to "waddle around in the icey water" like a penguin.