05.01.21 – 1322 – Log – Maci
Kate has found her lesson plans from the other time line and has posted syllabus for them. She has a lot of natural science, math, geometry and physics, some interesting music choices, a few for group dance, there are even art classes. Everybody works with the children on letters and reading. We are meeting to discuss after a community dinner. There is a lot of excitement. Kate’s ‘classes’ are well liked by the children, parents like them because they learn fast and thoroughly. If somebody gets stuck with a concept, Kate helps them separately from the rest of the group.
05.01.21 – 1421 – Log – Jackson
Kate posted a list of classes that she has plans for. We reviewed them after the community meal yesterday and the children took over the meeting. Their first request was the boomwhacker music class after seeing a short video of what it was. Anybody that can take direction is allowed to participate, so even the littles signed up for it. The next one they picked was natural science based. They will be studying stuff found in tide pools. I think this was picked just so that they can go to the beach. The class is modified for skill level. They could pick the class again next year and Kate would approach it from a slightly deeper level. They picked color theory for an art class which really surprised me. It looks fun though. A little messy. The parents took over after that and requested a basic math class. They all get instruction for letters, reading, and writing regularly. Everybody helps with that. Everybody in the math class can count to a hundred. Kate will make it fun for them. They will start out with addition and subtraction.
05.01.28 – 2000 – Log – Elbert
Kate has scheduled her classes. She has them scheduled three days on two days off for the school work type stuff. The day starts out with the science class, moves to math, then to color theory. After that the littles come and the boomwhackers come out. The boomwhacker classes are everyday that there isn’t a field trip. It’s expected to be a short term class. It will finish when they all learn three songs and have the recital.
05.02.08 – 1820 – Log – Dakota
The classes are going well. Marley loves school. Cam is concerned that she won’t learn as much as she could at home with no distraction. They have two days of classroom and close to home learning, then Kate takes them on a field trip. I chaperoned the first trip to see tide pools and was pleasantly surprised. Everyone knew what was what, and they all managed to be focused long enough to prove what they knew. I think maybe Kate was surprised that they all learned it so fast. She is considering whether to raise the skill level, add tide pool locations in different climates or just graduate them. We can discuss it at the community meeting. They had forty items to learn, some of them are still quite young, she planned four trips.
05.02.08 – 1912 – Log – Camden
Kate’s tide pool class blew through the material. Kate asked for advice at the community meeting. We told her to graduate them for the time and start them on an age based physics study. It looks like more fun than work, and most of it is hands on. What she currently has should keep them busy for about a month, though I suspect she may add to the plan, just in case. The natives were about to riot about the lost beach visits, they bargained for community trips. They did earn them, and we have never needed a reason to pack a picnic and chill out together, it should be fun.
05.02.10 – 2001 – Log – Jackson
Bear has been hanging out with Nemoy, Barkley and Roo while the children are in school. She came home with tag-alongs in her fur, Jack was a little sad that she had fun without him.
05.02.14 – 2114 – Log – Grace
I had some unexpected visitors today. At first I thought some of the children had gotten mischievous and did a ring and run. The doorbell went off and no one was on the screen. It happened a second time and all I see are furry feet at the top of the image. So I decided to check and it rang a third time as I was opening the door. Nemoy was perched on the rail, with his paw on the button. The furry feet were Barkleys. When I opened the door Roo flew in. The other three followed him. Bear was with them too. Nemoy has been here before, Dakota has brought him with the hopes of desensitizing him to birds. I didn’t realize he was smart enough to know the button meant the door opened. They brought Roo to meet the keets. The birds had a nice ‘play date.’ They stayed about an hour then left.
05.02.23 – 2211 – Log – Jackson
Kate has built a marble run with the children in the wet sandy area near the delta. They are planning a marble race and have invited the ‘adults’ to come and watch. The group is planning to make a beach day of it. It should be fun.
The Great Experiment 