He got up just before 7:30 after I’d entered the room. He watched on Max and Ruby and then we got ready to go. Got to the school right at 8:10. As we did, August asked me how many milliseconds were in a second. I told him a thousand. He said, “So a minute is 60,000.” We dropped off the hummus, then headed to class. He had me pick him up and then joked that “dada” was across the commons, even though I was carrying him. It turned into a “Where’s a dada?” song. We reviewed the schedule with Andrea, then I was able to leave at 8:20.
When I picked him up I learned that he and Eve had done stop motion animation earlier using the table with the wood pieces on it, then they had done more with Yaya down on the floor. Eve wanted to show me and got the tripod and asked Andrea for the iPad. I got to see both their videos. In one they had used a string to show the lizard jumping or flying. He had also eaten focaccia today and for lunch had the cake and the cereal bar from his lunch. They had had a tea party and celebrated Miriam’s birthday.
He ate on the bench, then eventually we headed to the pool. But on the way he asked if you could make a photo lighter or darker. We started talking about how cameras work and ‘aperture’ became a word of the day. We stopped at the couches near the pool and used the Moment camera app to explore shutter speed and ISO and white balance. White balance was a fun one and we took a lot of blue photos that turned out pretty cool. Marion walked by with one of her daughters, Jill, and another girl and asked if we were going to the pool.
He was excited to see Marion at the pool so we went and got changed and got to the pool at 4:15. He found Marion sitting on the side and gave her a hug and told her he thought she’d be in the pool. She told him that by the end of the day she was exhausted from teaching and she was just supervising. She defined ‘supervision’ for him and that became a second word of the day.
Once in the water, Liz said hi to us. She was swimming laps in the lane next to us. He at first asked “Who are you‽” when she was in her goggles. As she started swimming he commented on how wet she was and said, “She doesn’t look like a librarian now.” Later, when she had gotten out of the pool and leaving and she said bye he called to her, “I love you!”
We also saw Ilana at the pool. He asked about getting water in your ears and whether it could get to your brain. We discussed ear wax a lot, and he asked if your brain could be hurt. Later I found out that he and Carly had watched a video of a brain tumor surgery. We talked about physical damage and I told him about the guy who got a metal rod through his head and we talked about the different effects that could happen when specific areas of the brain are damaged. We also talked about how the brain communicates with chemicals and discussed depression, etc.
We got out of the pool at 5. As we were by the grass a woman said hi to him. It kind of looked like Rebecca, and August asked her if she was the one that squeezes him as a s’more. It wasn’t. It was the woman that helped with Carly’s get to know you day, and she does look kind of like Rebecca.
We headed towards the bathroom and he asked about how the bladder can not work. He was then talking about his science lab by the preschool. It was at the water table where he had watched Dion’s class from. He developed a story about how he was making explosions in it and it was interrupting kids trying to sleep at rest time.
We were home by 5:30. He watched Llama Llama, then we put noodles in the soup for his dinner. He used the Voice Memo app on my phone and recorded a song about how he loves the number 10. He was then playing in his science labs behind the pillows and then showing Carly the “videos” (acting it out) of his science. We read some of Magic Tree House #30 and then I gave him a bath and washed his hair.
He really wanted to cut his hair and get a lollipop and kept asking Carly about it. She said he was persistent about it, and explained persistent. He was repeating, “Persistent about lollipop.” He settled for cake and doing lollipop and hair cutting tomorrow. He then took photos with the macro lens, then went upstairs to brush his teeth with Carly. I was putting him to sleep. We first looked at Flickr photos while on the Zinnie bed. He then went and said good night to Carly. We sang some songs on the Zinnie bed, then switched to the big bed. Took awhile longer, and he was finally asleep at 10:15.
Dada is right here song:
Zinnie’s blue exercises:
I love 10s song in voice memos:
Stuff in his science lab:
Science Lab 1:
Science Lab 2:
His electric lab:
Lookin at their time lapse video
Playing with the white balance
