Summer activities

The Monday before last, Nate went to the first instalment of the library's fortnightly summer chess club. I stretched the truth about his age as the kids are meant to be from 3rd grade to 6th grade and he would only be going into 2nd, but a) we homeschool and I can pretty much say whatever I want, and b) I'm sure that age limit is there to protect the integrity of the chess. He can play chess. He might have been the youngest kid there (unless there were other truth-stretchers or kids bumped up a year), but he played four games and went 2-2, and the two losses were to the same kid who is clearly a chess genius ;o) He is very much looking forward to going again on Monday.

Nate's chess day is also Maya's ballet day! And here are some pictures of the ballerina herself:





She absolutely loved her first class. So did I. Her teacher was awesome - majored in dance in college and is now finishing her masters in teaching, so she is a Dance Teacher. She is also really, really nice and clearly very experienced. She kept those kids (all girls, bummer) busy the entire time and they were all just completely absorbed in the class. Because of the 4th of July holiday, there was no class last Monday which was disappointing, but it's on again on Monday and we're very excited!

And another one - Nate is doing the library's summer Lego club, called Brick Builders. A bunch of Lego lovers get together for an hour on Saturday mornings once a month and build Lego stuff. That was this morning. He seemed to keep to himself this time around, whereas last time he was in a group of other kids. But he was happy!