So - here I attempt again to note down the learning we do without even trying; last night we watched "How Stuff Works" about Wheat, Corn, Coffee and Salt.
And Andrew is now on Minecraft . . . whole lot of subtle learning there . . .
And just now this morning - Sarah- my dyslexic picked up and is reading "Lift and Separate" Baby Blues book #5
Finally on our way to the local mill pond we listened to "Stink-Solar System Superhero" which surprisingly was a fun story around the planets and the demoted-to-dwarf-planet the planet previously known as Pluto and the mnemonic "My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." for the planets - Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury . . . etc. So we get home and watch on Netflix "The Planets" and that was the end of the day!
learning the game of chess. And so far we've completed lesson one with it's quizzes and are in lesson two. :-) Then we found the Chess Kid (non-plural) site below -
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.
