Not many pictures this week, but we were busy with school every day.
1) The tot continues to be a challenge, but she spent a fair amount of time with this LEGO Duplo train set (as long as Kinder didn't see her playing with it...). She would build the blocks up, using every single one, then open the cab hatch and put Mickey in. Mickey is from a another toy entirely, but I'm sure he enjoyed his multiple train rides. 3rd grader had a friend over all day, as the public schools were closed Monday, and she showed her competitive side by rushing to do her work and get done first.
I love when my kids match my couch pillows...
2) Science block in the morning, lunch, kinder kid practiced piano using www.hoffmanacademy.com in the afternoon and we rested a bit together down in the playroom, as Mom woke up with a sprained ankle somehow. Tot made messes.
3) Math and language arts in the AM as usual, and then our Field Trip was something we'd never tried before - canvas painting at Busy Bees pottery shop. Two other families decided to join us after we posted it in our homeschool group and we had a lot of fun! It was an instructor-guided program, lasting about 1 hour, all supplies included. I didn't know if Kinder kid would want to participate, but he did, and other than tiring out while painting the background and needing some help, he did great. We now are the proud owners of 4 kid-made canvas paintings of Warhol's Daisy, or perhaps their own interpretations of it. Big kids did history/geography in the afternoon; they are still studying Africa.
Getting started
Using multiple hair dryers was loud, plus he did better at concentrating overall with his noise-canceling headphones to cut out distractions. The girls' daisies are coming along in the background!
Not too shabby!
4) Thursday we went to the community center (Mom's ankle was all the way better!). We'd called ahead and reserved the tot a spot in kid-watch, but this was one of the first times the kids were coming along to participate. The older 4 ran on the track for about a half mile, than the 9th and 6th grader got equipment and played pickleball, and the kinder and 3rd grader got basketballs and headed for an open gym. We only had an hour before we had to be somewhere else, and we had so much fun everyone was disappointed to leave. Thursday afternoon after our appt was the girls' Minecraft courses, Spanish, 9th grader's electives like C++.
5) Friday was normal, only one picture, 3rd grader doing her language arts on the floor at Theraplay while kinder kid had one of his weekly OT sessions.
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