We weren't planning to start school this week. It was supposed to be the preliminary week. You know, the one where we bring in all the boxes from the garage, put away last year's books, organize everyone's memory boxes, get out this year's books and put them, along with the new books and supplies that have arrived in the mail, on shelves. I was supposed to be organizing Joseph and Matthew's learning closet into a more usable Montessori environment.
Patrick and I were supposed to be listening to the welcome week CDs for Ancient Roman History and Literature. Then we found one of the CDs was mis-labeled and we have to wait for a replacement.
Then this came up.
So we pulled out our weather and water cycle books and started reading about seasons and clouds and weather patterns and why it rains, and where tropical storms come from. Katie is doing a weather prediction experiment, and Joseph is experimenting on whether the shape of a puddle affects its evaporation. And we are looking out the window at the stratus clouds, comparing the past three days' temperatures and barometric pressures and wind (there is some this morning, but no rain yet), and checking the storm track to see where the eye of the storm will go. It looks like it will be west of us. We are on the east coast at the base of the "hatchet" at the very top of Honshu.
Katie will post some photos of cleaning off their playhouse so we could bring it up on the covered and sheltered back porch. We had to secure everything that is loose. But the winds are only predicted to be 50 knots, so we don't expect major damage, just a lot of sideways rain.
So please keep Japan and the Japanese people in your prayers. And we'll get back to that preliminary stuff next week. We don't like to let school get in the way of our education. :-)
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