Week 4: April 20-April 24
Tuesday, April 21
Today's news about the cancellation of the rest of the year hit this boy hard. He literally climbed on my lap and stayed there for a 10 minute hug.
After some Mandala coloring with me, he felt better.
He made me this:
Wednesday, April 22
Today their work continued to be shoddy, BUT I tried to sneak in some extras. They already made treasure maps way back during the first week of being home (I think it came home as an assignment from either you or Mrs. Sanpietro-can't remember) But they made new ones. But we go hiking a lot. I will put them in charge of the map next time. I showed them a Borderland map today and explained to them how to read it, why scale was important (so they didn't get stuck doing too-long a hike--they seemed to understand that!), direction, the legend/symbols, etc.
Today for earth day we read through the poem and had a much better discussion of why the earth is like us than what they wrote on paper. I showed them pictures of pollution in cities before/after COVID. I also showed them the Little Blue Dot photo of earth. They were amazed at how tiny it was...I hope it drove home the message of how minuscule and special our earth is!
Thursday, April 23
Today we listened to Songs of Protest (curated by Mama) for music. I introduced them to "Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron, "Mississippi Goddamn" by Nina Simone (I got their attention by saying this was ONE time--racism--where it was ok for someone to use the word "goddamn"), and "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs. A bit radical? Maybe... ;-) And if I raise a social justice warrior, I'll be a happy mama. We also re-did the limbo...
Bedroom map. It's accurate... ;-)
There were no electronics this afternoon, and they accomplished quite a bit. They destroyed my half-done puzzle. :-( But they did set up a Leto city...so I guess it's ok they ruined hours of my work.
And they came up with a handshake...I can never get videos to work...so not sure if this will.
Karate in the evening. They also do dance parties to Spanish songs with their abuelitos in Mexico via Facetime. And they wrestle and play Monkey in the Middle with a pair of socks or a soft ball in the hallway. We are still making our way slowly through On the Banks of Plum Creek. We only manage about 2 chapters a night. Usually the boys are in bed by 8. But now karate online is 7-8 so by the time they shower and practice math facts, they are falling asleep while I'm reading. :-(
I caved and bought a cheap home pickleball set--I love any sport with a racquet. Also got spikeball. If it EVER stops raining we'll get our pitching net and soccer net in the back yard, and we can be outside all day...
Friday, April 24
Adrian loved reading the poem about the dog cleaning the bedroom. Here he is reading the poem for you:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rz7xlAwsNsIEknN4J1NAT0IjEiwgrv3O/view
This the boys using Screencastify to record themselves reading the poem.
His map exercise for the day was a map of school.
We skipped making the calm down jars for the SEL. They already have them...and I can't trust them with a glass jar when they are mad. Trust me on that one. So, I had them write in their Big Life Journal. The topic was "following your heart."
They were playing nicely again for over an hour in the living room with Legos and Transformers. They had invented a whole story about the Decepticons. The work for the day got thrown off because of it, but I like to let them do as much creative play as possible, especially given how much time they like to be on electronics!
Paper airplanes for art. They both made two different kinds.
Here is the link to this week's google doc of work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_kpEx_6EbVMhB3O6m17Rx5ADIBlCl0liuScQ__avt4/edit?usp=sharing
After some Mandala coloring with me, he felt better.
He made me this:
Wednesday, April 22
Today their work continued to be shoddy, BUT I tried to sneak in some extras. They already made treasure maps way back during the first week of being home (I think it came home as an assignment from either you or Mrs. Sanpietro-can't remember) But they made new ones. But we go hiking a lot. I will put them in charge of the map next time. I showed them a Borderland map today and explained to them how to read it, why scale was important (so they didn't get stuck doing too-long a hike--they seemed to understand that!), direction, the legend/symbols, etc.
Today for earth day we read through the poem and had a much better discussion of why the earth is like us than what they wrote on paper. I showed them pictures of pollution in cities before/after COVID. I also showed them the Little Blue Dot photo of earth. They were amazed at how tiny it was...I hope it drove home the message of how minuscule and special our earth is!
During his class chat. His room is a DISASTER.
Thursday, April 23
Today we listened to Songs of Protest (curated by Mama) for music. I introduced them to "Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron, "Mississippi Goddamn" by Nina Simone (I got their attention by saying this was ONE time--racism--where it was ok for someone to use the word "goddamn"), and "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs. A bit radical? Maybe... ;-) And if I raise a social justice warrior, I'll be a happy mama. We also re-did the limbo...
Bedroom map. It's accurate... ;-)
Shape Museum. Excuse the horribly messy kitchen table, school desk, etc.
There were no electronics this afternoon, and they accomplished quite a bit. They destroyed my half-done puzzle. :-( But they did set up a Leto city...so I guess it's ok they ruined hours of my work.
And they came up with a handshake...I can never get videos to work...so not sure if this will.
Karate in the evening. They also do dance parties to Spanish songs with their abuelitos in Mexico via Facetime. And they wrestle and play Monkey in the Middle with a pair of socks or a soft ball in the hallway. We are still making our way slowly through On the Banks of Plum Creek. We only manage about 2 chapters a night. Usually the boys are in bed by 8. But now karate online is 7-8 so by the time they shower and practice math facts, they are falling asleep while I'm reading. :-(
I caved and bought a cheap home pickleball set--I love any sport with a racquet. Also got spikeball. If it EVER stops raining we'll get our pitching net and soccer net in the back yard, and we can be outside all day...
Friday, April 24
Adrian loved reading the poem about the dog cleaning the bedroom. Here he is reading the poem for you:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rz7xlAwsNsIEknN4J1NAT0IjEiwgrv3O/view
This the boys using Screencastify to record themselves reading the poem.
His map exercise for the day was a map of school.
We skipped making the calm down jars for the SEL. They already have them...and I can't trust them with a glass jar when they are mad. Trust me on that one. So, I had them write in their Big Life Journal. The topic was "following your heart."
I had them draw shapes they could remember and I didn't have enough toothpicks to make a lot of 3-D objects...so we learned how to draw them and built a pyramid (sort of--it was missing toothpicks) and a sphere.
They were playing nicely again for over an hour in the living room with Legos and Transformers. They had invented a whole story about the Decepticons. The work for the day got thrown off because of it, but I like to let them do as much creative play as possible, especially given how much time they like to be on electronics!
Paper airplanes for art. They both made two different kinds.
Here is the link to this week's google doc of work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_kpEx_6EbVMhB3O6m17Rx5ADIBlCl0liuScQ__avt4/edit?usp=sharing
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