My computer class at the homeschool coop Tuesday was the last one. 

It was a fun class--the kids were finishing up their final projects, which involved creating basically a dynamic greeting card using MicroWorlds.  They animated shooting stars and explosions, and then transferred the viewer to a screen with a message, such as "Happy Easter" or "I Luv U."  There were lots of squeals.  The kids kept calling each other, "Come over here and see!" We got out the digital camera and took pictures of each other, too.

I am going to miss those kids.  We were working together on my new book, Logo Adventures, which should be appearing fairly soon as an e-book on the Motherboard Books Web site.  I am no longer homeschooling, because my daughter graduated a year ago, and my sons all really needed to be in school for various reasons.  (If you want details on that, read my e-book Nurturing Your Asperger's Child!) So I won't be teaching in the co-op next year.

When I first started in the co-op six years ago, one of my students was just two years old, and I looked after her in the nursery. Now Regina is eight.  She is a very plucky kid. It's not easy being the youngest one in the class! (The four others are one, two, or three years older.)

The co-op may be ending too, since the person who has put the most into it, Dawn, will be retiring from  homeschooling when her younger daughter graduates this month.

As my students were packing up, Dawn stopped by.  "It's the end of an era," we said to each other, and gave each other a hug.

Who knows what we will be up to next?? That's the big question.  The possibilities are many!!