The Garden Loom Goes Up

The Twigs got right to work today on their Garden Loom

Lining up the pre-drilled holes

Putting the bolt through the poles

Adding the nut

Some holes did not seem to work as well

Steve came and fixed the holes

Listening to directions

The Garden Loom is in the ground! We then filled the holes with concrete. (no pictures because I was shoveling the concrete mix!) The loom was a little shifty as we were putting it up so we plan to make some corner braces in addition to lashing it together. Next week, we warp!

 

Back to School day 2

 Again, Healer is on the left, Salix on the right.

 Using the yarn we dyed, Healer started weaving on the loom he made at Children of the Boreal, a homeschool cooperative inspired by Waldorf philosophies

 Salix learned to finger knit and made himself a new bracelet- the orange one. He used the yarn we dyed earlier.

 Fred Meyer was out of Ricotta cheese, so we made some ourselves. It took a whole half gallon of milk!

 we drained off the whey and saved it for boiling noodles

 the curds

 squeezing and pressing the cheese

 Time for our first Spanish lesson.

 Keeping these two quiet was not easy!

 Salix is so ready for his lesson to start

 When we got home, we made a filling out of the ricotta and boiled manicotti in whey, then stuffed the noodles.

 The home made ricotta is so much more flavorful than store bought. Yum!

School at Home

Monday was our first day following our new school rhythm. I was worried about getting everything into our day, so to help me keep on top of things, I wrote out our schedules on the board first thing. Healer's schedule is the left column and Salix's schedule is on the right.

 Before we started, Ryan helped the boys start making a mini hovercraft. They are making it from an old CD, a plastic bottle cap, and a balloon. We broke all of our balloons trying to get them onto the bottle cap, so we will have to get more before we see results.

Our morning story this week is Ignis, which neither of my kids had ever read. Healer picked it up later for silent reading.














Form Drawing

 Music

 This little guy's along for the ride, as always!

 Salix and I made some wax figures of the characters from Ignis and he played with them the rest of the day

 After a pretty full school day, we got out of the house on time, at 1:00 and went to our friend's garden to play.

 I harvested my pumpkin when I came home, since there are rumors of frost.