Lyceum

There is a nasty sickness running through our family. Everyone has a bad cold, and Cecily, Knut, and I have each spent a couple days in bed. Poor little Rosemary has been feeling really nasty; she is usually very happy and cheerful, but she's been really fussy lately. When I tickle her stomach, which she usually loves, she starts to cry. Hopefully we'll all be better soon, because this is going to be a busy week! Tomorrow night Cecily and I have our first Bright Lights meeting, and on Friday Lyceum starts! I'd better get busy and explain. :)

Mom, Cecily, Rosemary, and I went to a meeting two weeks ago and signed up for a Bright Lights group near here. We're really excited about it! Several people we know from our homeschool group are planning to attend (partly through our influence) :). There are lots of girls we don't know, so we'll get to make new friends!

Lyceum: it's a sort of co-op our homeschool group does. It's every Friday and there is a fall semester and a spring semester; both semesters last ten weeks. Many of the moms offer to teach different classes for the kids or sometimes other moms to take. Other moms are helpers at lunchtime, playtime, and in the nursery. This semester there are about 66 classes in the four hours that classes are available; two hours before lunch and two after.
Mom is teaching three classes this year: two choirs and K'NEX engineering. The choir she's teaching first hour is for 7th-12th grades. She calls it Lyceum Singers to keep it from getting confused with the other choir. Then second hour she has K'NEX engineering, which is for 4th-8th grades. Her other choir is third hour; it's for 1st-6th grades. She says that she thinks she's in over her head, but she says that almost every year and she does wonderfully. Her classes are among the most popular in Lyceum! :)
We all really enjoy going to Lyceum; we get to see our friends, take fun classes, and experience classes in a group setting. It's certainly a switch from there being only one person in each grade in our entire school! Not that we would want to go to a public school all day long, but once a week at Lyceum, gathering with other homeschoolers and taking classes from someone else's viewpoint other than Mom's is neat! Some of the classes, including one I'm taking, are even taught by some of the teenagers in the group. I'm hoping to be able to teach one sometime; but for now there are just too many classes that I want to take!