Today I was lucky enough to be home, as I don’t usually work on Tuesdays. This meant I was running the household school today! *insert evil laugh*
We started out with a nice, leisurely cleaning project. Only there wasn’t anything leisurely about it. I was on a mission. You know how children seem to grow faster than the new clothes can come in? Well, I decided it was time to go through their entire clothes collection. We actually started with the dreaded mound of clothes on top of the dresser this weekend. Today, I convinced them to tackle two drawers’ worth. We dumped the drawers out in the middle of the living room (eek!), and then worked our way back to putting it all away. It actually wasn’t as terrible as any of us were expecting! Woohoo!
Next up, it was time for ‘writing class.’ Wormy (my kindergartner) traced letters, and Squid (my 4th grader) had a project in Book Creator she had not yet finished for school. No time like the present.
We then moved on to math, which doesn’t feature overly exciting plans from me – both girls just did flashcards (addition for Wormy and multiplication 15s for Squid).
Continuing onward, we worked again on our Junior Ranger packet for the Everglades. Today we learned all about conservation of the ocean. Wormy was having trouble understanding how coral needs clear water in order to continue to live. I demonstrated using super complicated and fancy materials – I plopped an outlet safety plug into a clear bowl of water, used my phone’s flashlight as the sun, and blocked it with my hand. I then asked her if the coral could get my sunlight, and then she understood. It’s days like this that I feel pretty good about my ability to think on my feet. We will see if I am as confident by day 21.
Next up – time for a little geography. I tested the girls’ knowledge on their state locations by making them color on a blank map the states that we have visited together. We’ve got a little work to do on this, but maybe by next week, they’ll have a better idea of which half of the country they can find Kansas….
Time for some family reading – I read them some chapters from the Humphrey book we started. That hamster is so stinkin’ fun….if you are looking for a book that appeals to a 4-year age gap, check out any of the Humphrey books by Betty G. Birney.
OK, by now they were looking like we needed to get some energy out. Since the rest of the week looks a little…well, less than ideal weather-wise, we needed to get out. Squid led us in her dance class stretches, and Wormy proceeded to show us she probably doesn’t actually have bones in her body (ah, to be flexible again….or even just to move without creaking…). We then took a nice 2 mile walk out in the sun. It felt good. We were goofy of course – butt kicks to the next driveway….jumping jacks in the middle of the road (no cars were out – I was the lookout while Daddy led the workout)…race to the next mailbox. You get the idea.
We got back inside and decided it was time to cook. The girls have a kid subscription box to America’s Test Kitchen that they got for Christmas, and they hadn’t made Goldfish crackers yet. You can easily google a recipe – it was super easy. We only needed butter, cheese, flour, cornstarch, water, and salt. You could easily just cut them in squares (we got a fancy fish cutout with our subscription box).
By that time, I decided school was out for the day, as this all took us from about 9 am until 4 pm. I had a few other things on our list, but we got a little wild and daring cleaning for an hour, so I’ll save them for tomorrow. The word on the street is that I still need to go in to my school to work, but we will see. Seems like things are changing by the minute these days. How’s everyone holding up?
Car Full of Harmony 
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