He woke up at 7 and he asked me to get in bed. He fell back to sleep for 15 or 20 minutes. After he woke up and was laying on the bed, he asked if we could go down and play Green Planet. So we did, playing just one session for the day. He told Carly, “You’re a sweetheart.” I made us all a strawberry smoothie. He was doing more decimals today, telling us, “My grocery shop is 2.25 miles away.” They did calculator math, doing cents in math problems. He also showed Carly how you can repeat an operation over and over. He was counting by 56s at one point. I explained ‘multiples’ to him, so a word of the day. He counted to 2000 by 4s and asked “Aren’t I crazy?”
He was trying to pay me 100 won for something, and I explained the differences between ‘goods’ and ‘services’. He did more math with Carly, then played Gro Recycling for awhile. Carly went tot he store. He and I added to our Tabletop song. I had to explain the word ‘separately’ when referring to the loops. He then ate oatmeal and watched a couple marble race videos. We did more math with selling things. He asked of some number, “Is that a big number?” I said that is was, in my book. He thought that was a funny phrase and asked what it meant. He told me a one-minute massage was 56 cents. When I asked for a two minute massage he did the math in his head, telling me it would be a dollar twelve. He then set a timer on his watch and gave me a two minute timer, even though the money wasn’t real. He was getting more into both multiplication and division today. He told me about an ad he’s seen (and I’ve heard) on YouTube: “Now they’re the biggest cleaning the ocean company ever…ads is good! Ads is good! Dada loves ads!”
Carly was home at 11:10.I put away groceries, then August and I went up to his room. He made a game of us throwing stuffed animals back and forth. Puff’s winder broke. I finally got August dressed. We went downstairs, and the two of them had leftovers from Ishimoto for lunch while I had a hot dog. I took a shower, then they got ready and left at 12:25.
It wasn’t the smoothest trip. We had thought our time had been moved to 1. Apparently it wasn’t. When August found out he got upset and hit Gabi. He and Carly left and went to Ra’anana Park for awhile. They went back at 2, but August was a little off. He hid under a chair at one point. I think they mainly did the Monopoly thing again, and August had been talking of playing Connect 4 with her before they left.
They got back just after 3. August was eating some more food when the three Kern girls arrived. He was excited about that, but he was already off, and all three of them made him rather hyper. He got upset when Grace got him a little wet, then Carly went back down again a bit later when he was getting upset about something. We let them go early, at 4:30.
I worked for a bit more, then came down. I read the two Elephant and Piggie books. Carly then made him Swedish pancakes. As he hummed and ate he sang a song:
“It’s totally falling apart
But I can handle it
I’m gonna eat it like a sandwich.”
They then decided to watch a movie. I went upstairs and they watched part of Up. I came down. He ate frozen mango, then I made him a small oatmeal. We did more math and he gave me a one-minute massage. More multiplication. He was using the calculator to divide a dollar into different coins. He was also doing negative math, and when I came down the first thing he had shown me was how to do calculator problems into negativeland. He asked what 6 million times 6 billion was, and when I helped him with the 6 times 6 part he then got the millions times billions part faster than me, telling me it was quadrillions.
I took him up and gave him a bath. A little more of the Brother and Sister bathroom scenario. Carly took over and had him brush his teeth. I left them about 9:40.
Counting by 4s with the calculator:
Excited about three babysitters:
Mental math store game 1:
Mental math store game 2:
