Last Fall Our meetings ran in the afternoon to coincide with the older brothers’ F.I.R.S.T. Lego League meetings. When our expo was postponed unit April, we went to a much slower schedule, switching to 10AM once the older kid’s competition was completed.
We’ve been saving the snacks for later in the meetings, but today we ate them as the what to do to get everyone in the same room, content to sit still for my reminder of what they still need to finish before April 25 (Don’t worry, it was much shorter than last week!)
I asked DH to pray for us, since we were "practicing Christians of various flavors," then worked through the check list. This week I let the boys’ ask questions as we went along. Last week I made them wait until the end, because K had woken me up so many times the night before, I though my brain would ooze away if I didn’t get the whole speech out of my head first. They followed much better getting things cleared up as we went along.
We had one boy from one team, two from another. This worked out well, because we also had lots of adults to go around. Mrs D, who had studied art, stepped up to help them understand scale, and to suggest some ways to handle some modeling difficulties.
we were short of workspace, so we let one group loose on the table top, and put the other boy on the floor in the baby’s enclosure (she and another younger sibling were racing through the hallways, this way his Lego were safe.)
I mostly organized the bricks and dug out parts. I handed off B’s copy of
Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide, and the teams gave me a list of what bricks they need me to order for them this week.
What a fun, loud, productive meeting! It’s coming together, Huzzah!