This night, besides the math games, and letter bingo, we talked about presidents that were on our currency and Benjamin Franklin who was *not* a president but on our currency.
This spun off to a talk about what Benjamin Franklin did, and the kite and electricity thing . . . so we ended the day watching a Mythbusters (don't ya' know, we love em.) about the kite flying experience.
watched Bill Nhy the Science guy about flight and seasons.
Found GREAT YouTube Channel called Historyteachers and watched about the black death (bubonic plague) Cleopatra, Henry the VIII and his wives . . . just your general fun with internet learning! LOL
On Thursday we had Health Education and Career Exploration day with a visit to the . . . . *drum roll* DENTIST with Andrew. Who left this kid-friendly place with a new t-shirt and certificate for have 3 visits without cavities! Woot Woot!
Meanwhile, on Friday I introduced Builder Boy (a.k.a. Andrew) to Roblox! Which is wonderful for his building mind, but I am useless on it and had to watch some youtube "how to" to figure out how to play. Well, once he got the hang of it his enthusiasm caught to his sister - and so I let her set up an account and play on my computer while he played on the home computer and there they were building their worlds pretty much all day!
Yesterday Sarah had a "Polite as a Princess" class on etiquette given by Princess by Design - the teacher being a former Disney princess character (Belle) and Pageant winner. (also on Facebook)
walking/posture lessons
Special guest, Miss Teen California-World crowned each princess with a crown and a rose
On the drive there we listened and tried to sing along with all the songs on Multiplication by Heart - and she did well with all her skip counting song up to 6. I think that is wonderful, considering it's nothing we "sat down and taught". . . it's been entirely fun and easy! We laughed and laughed the whole time.
Today, Andrew was working on a list of "Things to do that are fun" in response to his question/whine about what he could do. Having him make out a list was so good - even though I had to prohibit him putting "Fighting with brother" on it, but we finally came to the point where he listed "do science experiment". Well! that was all the encouragement that I needed because I *had* an experiment that I've been waiting to do with them. The idea came from Janet's post, so out we went to "play" with baking soda and vinegar. Andrew decided that he wanted to make a volcano. It's still drying, and we think tomorrow we will be able to make the "lava" flow.
Well, last night was the BIG BLACK OUT of southern San Diego, Arizona, and parts of Orange County and Baja California Mexico. It affected us, and what a nice opportunity to TALK about electricity, and all that it affects.
Yesterday I forgot to mention the letter Sarah made out to her pen-pal. Her pen-pal just lost her grandmother and Andrew was so moved by it that he dictated a letter of condolences for Sarah's pen-pal. I need to remember to copy these letters before they go out.
Then tonight, Sarah pulled out my sewing basket (blowing off some dust) and wanted to work on embroidery/cross stitching. And then so did Andrew. They spent about an hour working on their projects.
And Andrew has been into making soldiers out of anything/everything . . here are some play clay soldiers he made and armed.
Then Andrew made armies out of paper and waged war all over my living room, and when a "bomb" went off, he methodically tore off heads, limbs, etc to have strewn about. Is this healthy? Hmmm -
Sarah mentioned she wants to work on her cursive writing. Maybe tomorrow.
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