Home-schooling comes with a host of benefits (I’ll save the litany for another time). But home-schooling does mean that tracking down extra-curricular activities means a lot of work. Instead of just staying after school for intra-mural basketball, mom and dad have to enroll the kids in a municipal league and drive them across town every Tuesday and Thursday evening.One of the many perks of having the girls attend ICS is that all these extra-curricular activities are available -quite literally- in our basement.
This fall Elise took part in the elementary schools running club. This spring she is going to be part of a reading club, soccer, and ceramics.
As a middle schooler, Annika has been able to take advantage of several opportunities. She is her homeroom’s student council representative. She was (kind of) part of the girls’ tennis team. (She was on the roster, but actually played very, very little.)
Last weekend, when our middle school put on a production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Annika was part of the design and stage crew. She did a great job. The kids all did really well. It was the most raucous fun I have had at the theater in a very long time.
Now for the Spring production, we just need to get Annika on this side of the curtain.
-Jack
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