The boys are enjoying their little exercise warm up before starting the school day. Tom made a list of 10 exercises (jumping jacks, head shoulder knees and toes, burpees, knee highs, inchworms, mountain climbers, butt kickers, skaters, two foot jumps forward and backward, and running in place) for them. They each chose two exercises and rotated through them in 30 second intervals. Of course, “running in place” became “sprinting back and forth across the room” and “jumping jacks” became “running and doing jumping jacks while making fart noises” but still. HaHa!
We tried something different today for writing that they all seemed to enjoy…Roll and Write. They made up their own lists of settings, characters, and plots. Then, they rolled the dice three times and picked something from each column to create their stories. Roman dictated his ideas to me and came up with four or five really creative stories. Xander’s writing involved a tent, Minnie Mouse, and deadly farts. It was pretty funny. Jonas had so many ideas rolling through his head and had so much fun coming up with his list that he barely wrote two sentences and then cracked up because he couldn’t read his own handwriting. (We’ll have to try that one again on Monday.)
The boys all did some independent reading and worked on math with Beast Academy (thank you, dear Sandi, for telling me about this!!!).
For Mommy and Me time, Xander and I played corn hole and read “Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten: A Call to Arms” together. Roman and I played Kubb (thank you so much to the Longs for the Christmas gift that keeps on giving!!!) and made some oatmeal raisin cookies. Then, Mommy needed a BREAK…so, I sent them all outside, where they came up with some sort of run-around-and-hit-each-other-with-beanbags game. After that, Jonas and I balled up the oatmeal raisin cookie dough and baked it and tweaked his Beast Academy math program online.
We didn’t end up getting to our science activity today, so we’ll do that this weekend.
Two weeks of homeschooling down!!! Roman said homeschooling felt “homey” today…so I consider that a win.
You know, this whole thing makes me think of a little kindergartener who I had in the library all those years ago, who stood up in front of the class, showed her drawing interpretation about the story we read, and said, “My name is Maya, and I did the best I know how.” That’s my heart right now…”My name is Jodi, and I’m doing the best I know how.”