The second trimester of school started on Monday. About a quarter of high school students failed their classes in the first trimester, mainly because students didn't show up to online classes, so the high school decided to mix up the schedule with the goal of greater student engagement. While we support helping kids succeed in school, the resulting schedule is even more complicated than the schedule last trimester. This new poster on our fridge has been essential to keeping all the classes straight. 
For family night on Monday, Helen drew this poster and the rest of us helped her color it. We wrote a note of appreciation on the back and took it to two of our wonderful neighbors.
We have a Christmas village set up in our library.
Bigfoot, the master of social distancing and Oregon's unofficial mascot, lurks in the greenery.
Unless he's stomping across the stores on Main Street. Moving Bigfoot has become a new Christmas pastime. So far, we haven't found him in the nativity.
Becky had finals this week in her Geometry and Analysis classes. Listening to Christmas music and drinking cocoa is not a bad way to study! She's finished with school now until January.
On Tuesday, Helen and Becky dropped up some cookies (individually packaged to meet covid guidelines) along with our thanks to the emergency department at the hospital. The hospital staff is exhausted-- physically, mentally and emotionally, and if we're honest about it, we're probably halfway through this pandemic. We still have a long way to go.
The boys finished the tables they started at Craterworks by attaching the white board tops. The pine they were using to build the table legs tends to split so the shop master is going to source different materials before they build any more.
Since it didn't take long to attach the tabletops, Nathan helped the boys find their own projects to work on. Gibson wanted to cut out a stencil to paint a design on the longboard he built this summer. He designed the pineapple on Adobe Illustrator and then used a laser cutter to cut the stencil out of foam board. This is a photo of the laser cutter at work cutting out his design.
The finished stencil is very precise with crisp lines.
Sofi is home for a month! We were all excited to see her, but Gibson had an especially big grin now that he is taller than Sofi. Sofi now has the honor of being the shortest sibling. Sofi's friend, Emma, is visiting as well and will be here until Friday.
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