He woke up at 5:30. We were all still in bed. In the 5:40s he started reading out the times on the clock. Went downstairs around 6. He and I started reading 65-Story Treehouse and were reading it when Carly left. We read 250 pages, starting at the beginning. Snacked on Cheerios while we read. We took a break and he watched Wanda and the Alien while I made a mango lassi. He moved the iPad to the kitchen floor so he could keep watching while he had the lassi.
We then read 50 pages of Plumdog. August acted out things like the dogs rolling in poop. We then moved to art. He drew a rectangle then divided it in halves, quarter, eighths, sixteenth, etc. On the other page he did long rectangles, then divided them into “thirds” lengthwise: “Now, I’m gonna make a machine.” We drew a plane, taking turns to color it in with the blue marker. He said “That’s a walrus in the air.” He then sang a nice song: “Im the walrus, lost in the air.”
We then got the Legos (which had come in the large box) out for the first time. He chose a blue base and started making a rectangle, then adding rectangles inside, filling it up. He was talking and said “The voongadees take all the oxygen from the fire.”
We went upstairs and I took a shower and he watched one Wanda and the Alien. Only two episodes this morning, and he saved a third for later, although he never used it. We went downstairs and made a salmon sandwich for lunch. He played TodoMath and DragonBox Little Numbers. He ate his half of his sandwich (all but the last little bite) with my help (holding it). He acted out being the balancing scales in TodoMath and had me come up with math problems that would balance him. He was then a lost walrus, etc.
We went outside to do watering. He spent quite awhile making streams between the papaya plants. And he wanted to make sure mama’s favorite weed was watered. And he pulled a couple weeds as well.
Back inside he played with Legos on his own, adding to the structure he had made, then taking it apart. He was excited by a cone-shaped piece and we made a little rocket with it.
We left at 12:45. Over at the mall we stopped and he played on the airplane again. He wanted to make sure there were no wires lying around this time. He’s been interested in polygons again and asked me to look up the chart so we could find out the names of 12, 20, etc. sided polygons. Did that as he sat on the plane and the wing.
Then inside, where outside Tiv Taam there was a taste test thing happening for some Tenta vegan burgers. I tried them, but August, who has never passed up a free sample before, didn’t participate, as I think he didn’t want to have to talk to the women. The patties were good, although the spicy one wasn’t.
We did our grocery shopping. August sat in the cart and was generally just fine. We had to stop for several minutes while he watched a couple workers use pricing guns. He also started asking if things were symmetrical, mainly starting with the milk cartons, but moving on from there. That led to teaching him the word ‘asymmetrical’ and reminds me that on the trains yesterday he asked “What it called when the train is slowing down?” Seemed pretty clear that he was asking me for the name of a concept, which was interesting. So we had talked about ‘acceleration’ and ‘deceleration’.
As I said, shopping was fine until checkout, at which point he kept saying “Go!” to the woman doing check out. When we were done I had to talk to him and explain that he needed to stop saying that and be nice to people – or simply ignore them. Also, I felt comfortable tying later iPad usage to him not saying it. With reminders through the day, of course.
We got home with the intent of a quick turnaround and heading to school to get there before 3. But he wanted to read the ant section of 65-Story Treehouse so we read that. I then sliced an apple to take with us and he got involved with the Hebrew magnets. So I sat on the floor and we talked through the alphabet once.
We left right around 3. It was slow going, as there was a strong wind blowing at us. Well, most of the way. It swirled around and for a bit was helping us, but mainly it was in our face. He was asking about directions (north, etc.) and would continue to do so in the pool, asking what direction he was facing.
We spent about a half hour in the water. He was catching the wind in his hands and asking about directions. We got out at 3:55. Warm enough in the water, but a bit chilly in the wind getting out. August commented on evaporation. He was then asking if everything was symmetrical in the bathroom.
We got to Carly’s classroom and played on the bean bags while Carly went and made phone calls. Apparently, Skoda screwed up theVIN. Something Neville, the guy at the school, says he has not seen in 20 years. That’s a bureaucratic nightmare as our tax break is tied to it. So don’t know what happened: either they got the number wrong, or perhaps sold our car to someone else somewhere in Israel.
August did some sleep practice in the bean bags, then when we were done we headed to his activity class. He was a little disappointed there were no small things for him to carry in, but he helped Carly carry a big cushion thing.
Before class the teacher (whose name sounds like Seagall, but is probably spelled differently) gave him a bunch of high fives and he thought that was funny. There were a couple more kids today, two boys. The first several minutes of class he kept yelling “Are you going to chase me?” as that was his major concern. He basically spent every second in class this time. A few times over the last 15 minutes he would run out and ask “How many more minutes?” then run back in.
Had him say thank you to the teacher before we left, then on the way home we did a lot of discussing of symmetry of things and also discussed the moon, as it was almost a half moon now.
We were home at 6:10. They nursed, then looked at countries and photos on Google Earth. They went outside and Carly found that the rosemary clippings have started to grow roots. We had some dinner indoors, then I gave him a shower and Carly did dishes. Today he chose to go get the Zinnie bed wet. He then did a lot more practicing to sleep on the bed. When he was done with that we read Plumdog, getting from page 50 to 100. He was asleep by 8.
Looking for symmetry:
Helping carry:
