Summer School

So people have been asking me what the monkeys are doing this summer. They are going to school! Evergreen offers a summer program every year. They aren't quite old enough for the camps that interest them--well Satchel is, but Jiro isn't, and Satchel doesn't want to go alone. This is the first year that Satchel has really wanted to do a camp, but I haven't found one that he and Jiro can both do.

However, the Evergreen summer program is great. This year they are doing three three-week sessions (music, cooking, and art). For the first one, music, they have been using the Montessori materials (and the amadinda and akadinda they made a few months ago) to explore notes and keys and whatnot, listening to different music styles, and taking guitar lessons. Music for Aardvarks is coming every Thursday and they have a musical guest every Friday. (This week it's a cello player from New York.)

In addition, they are working in the garden, taking care of the school's animals, and just generally enjoying running around. When I picked them up on Wednesday, they gave me a tour of the gardens and showed me how they can move the amadinda and akadinda all by themselves. Very sweet.


In the evenings and on weekends Warren and I am supplementing their summer experience with frequent trips to the pool, bike rides, ice cream & sno cones, and fancy dinners out. Later in the summer we will be going on a road trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.