MONDAY
We finished up our Antarctica studies today after reading two more non fiction picture books about it and by painting our salt dough penguins and making them sugar cube igloos. The girls wrote papers, Eliza on antarctica and Sam a Mr. Popper's Penguins book review.
Benson's insanely messy room became a priority. So we cleaned that while the girls happily drew and played pretend without their noisy little shadow. Once the room was all clean we got out the hot wheels set. He tested out every car to see which ones would work on the loopityloops. He gave each a creative name and sorted them. Not what I had planned but became a good science experiment as found which shape of cars worked best.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Instead of taking the holiday off like public schools we held school today so we could learn about the life, work and ministry of Dr. King. I learned so much about his life and was especially inspired by his Christlike approach for fighting hate with love. We watched a YouTube video on his life and then read two books picture books about him, Martin's Big Words and I Have a Dream.
We chose our favorite quotes and made posters with different skin colored hand prints. His words and teachings are even more essential today than they were then.
The girls wrote papers\paragraphs about Dr. King. Eliza could remember every little detail word for word almost from the video we watched, it was crazy. Some stuff I didn't even remember.
V is for velcro. We played with velcro hair rollers on a felt board and invented a marble run. That was fun.
We got to 2pm and the kids hadn't done any steps yet so I took them for a long walk. It was snowing. And 20 degrees so we had to shake things up a little so it wasn't miserable. I turned on music on my phone and taught them how to do "snake" ladder runs in a line. When we got back home we played monkey in the middle outside and a little basketball. That only got us halfway there on our steps so we did a long round of Just Dance on the Wii. Eliza is the boogie down queen.
TUESDAY
Sam passed off her 9 times tables. And Benson had fun doing some velcro fishing on my bed with yarn and velcro curlers in a laundry basket. He was so silly and loved "falling into the water."
We had to work hard for our 10,000 steps today. We went on 2 walks in the frigid air and the kids did gonoodle dance app for a while also.
Thursday
FRIDAY
We finally got to the muscle lesson in anatomy that I was going to do on Wednesday. Highlight of the lesson was demonstration of how muscles contract and relax with a balloon, and having matt come be our model to show different muscles.
For math game we did a dice rolling two numbers and the girls had to times the two and shout out the answer. Whoever said answer first got a point. Sammie was the proud winner with 125 points. Eliza got 111, I think. Which means they practiced over two hundred math problems and didn't even know it, bwahahahha.
