My ds had his first Invention Factory workshop last Friday morning. The University of Hawaii offers this class to homeschoolers to teach them about simple electronic circuits, magnets and motors. They get to do things like build a printed circuit board lamp switch, make an Archimedes switch, build a simple LED circuit, construct an LED flasher, build an LED chaser, build a morse code buzzer and game, and build a simple motor.

Their focus in on using their new knowledge in ways to improve the well-being of people with special needs, such as the elderly and those with disabilities.

The class consists of 15 kids between the ages of 12 and 16. The class is eight sessions long and lasts for 2 1/2 hours each day. My ds seemed to have enjoyed himself. I have two reasons for signing him up for this workshop. The first one was to expose him to something new, hoping he might take an interest in it and possibly develop a new hobby. The second reason was to give him something to do that does not involve his sister or me.

I managed to switch dd's horse riding lessons to Friday mornings as well, which works out really well as they are only a couple miles apart.

I revised our daily schedule so we do devotions, math and english in the mornings and have latin, science and history in the afternoon. As it works out, we will skip math and english on Friday mornings due to being gone and then we will just pick up with lunch and Latin when we return home.