Homeschool Week 6

This is for the week April 20th through the 24th.

Monday
James had his class meeting online first thing. He wrote his teacher penpal a note on a card and drew her a picture on the back instead of doing his journal.

Leah wanted to take her doll on our walk. You might remember Kyle, who used to be Amelie's.

James made this robot with and a human for scale.

Tuesday
Amelie worked on directions (North, South, East, and West)  and clockwise/counterclockwise today, so James did a little bit, too. James did some review with money. James is 98% done with the first grade curriculum for the math app that they're doing daily. Amelie's only about 40% done, but looking at the progress, she's made almost all of that in the past 30 days, so I think that she wasn't doing it at school while school was in session the way that James was - probably we were supposed to have her do this at home the whole time!

Also, I took a meal out to our friends who just had a baby Saturday while Amelie did her remote piano lesson. They humored me and held the tiny sweet baby up to the window while I left the food on the porch. What interesting times we live in. (I asked the kids if they wanted to make "Happy Birthday" cards for the baby and  they said no!)

Sam took the big kids to Three Creeks Conservation Area out a little bit south of town.

Spark came along, too:

Wednesday
Amelie has 3 Zoom meetings on Wednesdays. Her first one was with Ms. Malveaux, and they worked on dictation sentences - it's just her and one other student. The next one is math right afterward, and then she had a half-hour break until homeroom.

James wanted to ride his bike on our after-lunch walk, but despite warnings, he zoomed right through an intersection and then in a somewhat-separate-but-related bad choice he rode off the path at the park, down a hill, and crashed in the woods.

James drew and then went on a hunt to find several 3D shapes (geometric solids!) throughout the house (cones, rectangular prisms, cubes, pyramids, cylinders).

Thursday
Amelie had her online meetings for literacy (they're reading and discussing City of Ember) and science.

James struck a deal with me, and for math, we played a game of Yatzee and he kept score by himself (making a chart, writing numbers, addition, multiplication, comparison!). He also checked the time before we started, wrote it down, checked the time that the game ended, and figured out it took us 35 minutes to play. (We were interrupted by the pre-schooler.)

James agreed to take the lone remaining training wheel off his bike. One of them fell off, and he'd been riding with just the one training wheel, which I have to imagine is actually more difficult than not having any at all.

Sam made a cherry pie, and with persuasion added our first initials to the crust.

Friday
James campaigned to play Yatzee again for math, and then as he was making the scorecard (a chart!), he says, "Hey this is a lot like math!" He's on to me. Apparently, I took no photos Friday. James did a lot more bike riding, and even went out with Sam also riding.