Day 180 plus

So here we are at the end of the school year.  It's taken me a while to post this.  I guess I'm almost sad about the end of 4th grade.  Thus do we enter the murky waters of  >shudder<  Middle School.  On the other hand, we can now relax and go through summer playing math games (Timez Attack), swimming for  Phys Ed, trying to learn Spanish, and reading about Medieval Times as the kids wanted to. 

I was pondering what to write about for the last post for One Year of Homeschooling.  In the past week or so we've done things worth posting about. 
We went on a hike to Table Rock on Father's Day and saw a Black snake winding his way on the side of a rock.  We had a truly nice time with perfect weather and even tempers. 
We went on an airport tour that was super fantastic, and I plan on taking them back for another in a few years.  We got a private bus that took us to a hangar for a tour and to the snow removal equipment housed in old Cold War hangars (snow removal equipment for an airstrip is very impressive, by the way).  The bus also took us to the end of the runway where we watched a plane land, then drove down the length of the runway after it!  It was most cool.
I could have written about the end-of-year test, the CAT test from Seton that we do every year.  I fret and I fret, positive that this is the year that they are going to fail math completely, only to be so very pleasantly surprised when they both score in the high 90's for both English and Math.
I could have written about catching crayfish in the creek, or swimming in pools, or going to fireworks, or picnics, or any number of things.

The trouble is that the schooling doesn't just "end".  Officially, the kids think they are off the hook and done for the year.  The truth of the matter is that we are teaching all the time, and they are learning from us, from all the books that they devour like junk food, from all they see and do.  I don't define myself as an unschooler, but it's starting to look like I am one just the same.
Today I prepared my 4th quarterly (ok, late, yes) and put everything in it to complete paperwork for 4th grade.  I also put in it my Letter of Intent.  On to another year of homeschooling!

Giving them a helping hand (before freaking out, look at the horizon).