This is a little late (had to go out of town for a family emergency of sorts) but this past week's class went well. Had the boys over for their weekly woodshop class and had them making bookends, which allowed them to do some simple metalwork (shaping 1/8" thick steel on a sander) and use a router table to rout edges on wooden pieces. I learned to relax and not worry if we completed the project in one session as planned, and the boys worked together well to share the tools and work safely. ( I think I'm learning as much as the boys do). They also each presented thier ideas for a "semester project" to completed over the next month or two. This week we will work on those designs more and develop some measured drawings, and finish the bookend projects. More later........