Eric, Dani, Tom & Jake: March 2020

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Home School Day 19

Day 19
The boys got a few assignments from their teachers today. Their art teacher asked them to do a color wheel of things they found from around their house. And also a design of things in a pattern that they found around the house as well. And Tommy's science teacher asked him to start studying a tree and make drawings of what it looks like right now. Then inspect it again in a couple weeks.

President Trump announced that if everyone stayed at home our best case scenario looks like 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die. It is hard to even think that it could be real.

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Monday, March 30, 2020

Home School Day 18

Day 18
The boys had fun with their how to draw day. They also spent time with dad outside burning stuff. Their favorite.

Work got a bit crazy yesterday and today. A flood of seminar cancellations and postponements. Ug.

Vashon has reported their second case of COVID-19. The summer 2020 Olympics have been postponed to 2021 :(

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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Home School Day 17

Day 17
Today the boys worked on lots of math sheets today.

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Saturday, March 28, 2020

Home School Day 16

Day 6
Today for science we did the new snap circuits that Tommy got for his birthday. It was pretty cool. He made a light turn on, made a motor with a fan go. And he also made sound turn on.

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Home School Day 15

Day 15

Jake's Kindergarten class started a marco polo group so the kids could post messages to each other. It has a voice filter. We were dying after we heard the macho voice filter.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for COVID-19.

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Home School Day 14

Day 14

The boys first day of making collages was very interesting. I had to show them some examples because they had never done one before.

Would have been opening day for the Mariners today. Sad to think about it. But they replayed Felix's no hitter on their website, and are starting up a classic game a night on tv.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Home School Day 13

Day 13

The boys made some very interesting paintings today at art time.

Today the first case of a Vashon resident with COVID-19 confirmed. Rumor is that there was an outbreak out the post office and a portion of the employees have been quarentined.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Home School Day 12

Day 12

Tommy got a letter from his teacher today. He voice to text wrote back to her.
Jake's class started up a marco polo page. It let's people post videos to a group. It was pretty funny.

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Monday, March 23, 2020

Home School Day 11

Day 11

The new schedule worked pretty well. Still looking for good game like apps for Tom to do on his level while Jake is doing work on the tablet. We did some hunting and pecking around. Still working on it.

The rest of the schedule went pretty well. I won't list it out because they followed the schedule almost exact. They liked having different a specific thing to do at each learning time and were looking forward to the activities coming up in the week.

I did have a meeting with Tommy's reading teacher today to go over things to be teaching Tommy while out of school. It went well. I had a fairly good idea of what to be teaching him, but got some extra tips.

We did have a little issue with Tommy's birthday balloon this evening. It popped and there was a melt down. He was crying because he said it was the best balloon ever because it looked like video games and said Epic on it. And it was his favorite color green. So I asked Eric to get a new one but he could only find an Star Wars balloon. It was not green or epic, but he was not disappointed.

Governor Inslee issued a stay at home order today except for non-essential functions.

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Home School Day 10

Day 10
Apps - Jake - Monsters, Tom - Kahn Math
Activities - Lots of Cleaning. These boys are filthy pigs
Reading - Jake - BookRoom, Reading IQ
Recess - Gardening with Mom

This is what we get for stocking up on food. I found a hoard of wrappers under the boys bed and dresser. Apparently they had been stealing snacks and shoving the wrappers under there. They also found and stole the candy bag and ate all of it. Oh boy was I angry. I made Tom crawl under the bed and clean all of it out. And then I told them that if they left food and wrappers were left under the bed that rats would crawl under there and then crawl into their bed and eat their toes. Hopefully that scared them enough to never do it again.

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PE Exercies

Shake Your Sillies Out

Ridiculously Fun Dance Exercise For Kids

Five Minute Kids Workout

Brain Breaks - Action Songs for Kids

New Home School Schedule

Today we are starting a new schedule. With a lot of my focus on work I need the boys to by more self sufficient. It was still a bit chaotic at times. There was a lot of I don't know what I am doing, or I am bored. So I made a schedule with more specific things to do and different things each day to rotate to hopefully keep them from getting bored. Jake is the calendar keep. Tommy is the time keeper and schedule reader. We'll see how it goes :)

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comedy!

Good Morning Boys

7:30 Wake Up and Potty

7:45 Breakfast with Music

8:15 Brush Teeth and Get Dressed

8:30 PE

Monday through Friday	Weekend
Go Noodle App	Mom's Choice

9:00 Letter Sounds

Kid	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Weekend
Jake ____	Letter Sound Flash Cards	Starfall _______	Sight Words	B and D P and Q	Starfall ________	Monsters ___________
Tom		Spelling Training	J - Read T - Write	Flash Cards	Grid Club	SIPPS Online Sight Words

9:30 Tablet and Computer Work

Kid	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Weekend
Jake ____	Monsters _______	ABC Mouse _______	Starfall ________	Monsters _______	Kindergarten YouTube ________	Learning App Free Choice ___________
Tom	Kahn Math	ABC Ya	Turtle Dairy	ABC Ya	Monsters	Read Well

10:30 Free Choice on Computer or Tablet (maybe)

11:00 Recess Outside

12:00 Lunch with Storyline Storytime or Story Time from Space

12:30 Math Time

Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Weekend
Finding Buddies with Cards	Osborne Book	Math Sheets	Numberline	Number Scroll	Mom's Choice

1:00 Project Play

Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Weekend
Legos	Cars	Puzzles or Games	Magnets	Action Figures	Free Choice

2:00 Science Show or Experiments

Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Weekend
Magic School Bus	Field Trip Websites	Mystery Doug	Blaze and the Monster Machines	Planet Earth	Mom's Choice

3:00 Art Time

Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Weekend
How to Draw	Playdough	Paint	Collage	Coloring Books	Mom's Choice

3:45 Cleanup Time

4:00 Recess Outside

5:00 Call Grandma and Grandpa

5:30 Jake Reading
Book Room
Tom Writing
Journal of Day's Events

6:00 Jake Writing
Letter Writing Practice
Copy Site Words
Write a Sentence - Daily News
Tom Reading

Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Weekend
Epic	SIPPS Storries	Epic	SIPPS Storries	Epic	Tommy's Choice

6:30 Check Writing

7:00 Dinner with Spanish

7:30 Rewards Time (maybe)

8:00 Brush Teeth and Pajamas

8:30 Harry Potter Story Time

9:00 Bed Time

Good Night Boys

Activity Log
Week One Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Week Two Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10
Week Three Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14 Day 15 Day 16 Day 17
Week Four Day 18 Day 19 Day 20 Day 21 Day 22 Day 23 Day 24
Week Five Day 25 Day 26 Day 27 Day 28 Day 29 Day 30 Day 31
Week Six Day 32

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Tommy's 8th Birthday

Tommy turned 8 today. It wasn't exactly the birthday he planned, but he still had a good birthday. We had planned for Tommy to get a birthday with lots of friends. We had a family baking class we gave our family as a gift for Christmas. So we had planned to have our baking class in the morning which came with learning different ways to decorate 40 cupcakes! And then afterward we would take them to Tommy's birthday party. Then COVID-19 started and we thought, OK we will just have a handful of people there. And finally we had to let Tommy know we were just going o have to cancel all events we were planning to do.

He still got presents including some fun science stuff and planet stuff. He got to help make and decorate his cake (with a lot of sprinkles). We did some of the fun activities we were planning on doing at his party with balloon propelled cars. Although one of the balloon propelled cars was very difficult to get to work. It was more of an experiment to see how to build a car and weight and friction ect. It took a lot of tries to get it to move, and we did get it to go the length of the room a couple times that of course were not the ones I got on video. But I also got a simple version that worked every time so the boys had lots of fun with those. And he also checked out some of his planet presents that he got.

We also had a little virtual birthday for him through zoom. We played virtual Pictionary and then sang Happy Birthday.

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Eric, Dani, Tom & Jake

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