He was up at 7:25. He came down with me to the couch and curled up. When I put the blanket on him he totally pulled it up over hi imself like a cocoon and rested for probably ten minutes. When he was more alert I read more of The Last Kids on Earth. Only 25 pages left. We then moved to Minecraft, going back to our main survival world. He handled the end great and then watched the two Kurzgesagt videos about the Fermi Paradox and ate oatmeal.
We did some Brother and Bar game, with Brother being jealous of kids in a sci-fi movie living on a Mars base, but finding it boring when Bar actually starts making it one.
He wanted to do music, so first we watched an Odd Quartet video about building scales (https://youtu.be/ObBCOgLCOkE) before setting up GarageBand and the keyboard. He worked on playing one of his new songs in a new key.
He did 7 and a half minutes of alone time and then he did 15 minutes of Minecraft, with it being part of a game where Bar came to Ms. Safe’s class and taught them all about Minecraft. At one point he was concerned about us being separated but I explained he shouldn’t be concerned because you’re never really lost in Minecraft because you can turn on coordinates. He said, “That’s a good argument.” But added, “I don’t like it when I lose arguments.”
He then did music for alone time, doing the rest of his 22.5 minutes. We played Minecraft for the rest of his time, continuing the Bar and Myna as teachers game.
When his time was up he had half of a taffy from his Christmas treats. He went back to playing music and had me looking up scales. He got hungry and we had soup for lunch. We watched the Odd quartet video on “Intervals” as we ate. Before lunch I had taught him the names of the black keys and for the first time he seemed really interested in and understood how they have two names. The intervals video worked well too, and “unison” was a word of the day (and he picked up that it sounded like unicycle). He was excited that he already knew an octave.
We then started the Preschool Prep “Ph” video as he had chosen that letter digraph to do today. When he refused to wash his hands though we took a break. I went to work on the couch until he was ready to wash his hands and continue with school time.
He worked on his fort, making it even bigger and better, until he declared it finished. I complimented it but commented on how I had definitely lost my sitting spot. He replied, “There’s three chairs for three people, you know.”
We went back to phonics and finished ph. We moved to Rivet. He read two level 1 or 2 books and I read a level 8 about space robots. In talking about going to Gabi’s I mentioned I’d grab one of those little biscuit cookies for him, and asked him to try to help me remember, as I had meant to get one on Sunday but forgot. He got grumpy about this and called me stupid for forgetting, then brought it back up a couple times. He eventually apologized for it.
He went back to music and was looking up odd scales and chords. He played a scale over and over that he liked and it turned out it was F Locrian scale, or simply F sharp starting from the 7th step. He made up a cool song for the day, and also was playing lots of “Just a Little Love”.
He didn’t want to leave the house before we left for Gabi’s at 2:30. The last thing we did was to take out some rocks and break them with the hammer. It started with a rock he had inside, then he remembered the rocks he had collected yesterday.
We got going and listened to Story Pirates both down and back, continuing season 1. We each snagged a little cookie before going in. I went in with August today and he was excited about that. He had picked up a stick getting out of the car and started by using it as a drumstick on things and called it his drum stick. He then said he’d choose a random game, and it was a boxed card game of War. When Gabi told him that he at first wanted to play, but then decided we’d play army instead. As August walked to get the army pieces he said, “I’m definitely not a pacifist.” Which cracked both me and Gabi up. We played with the army the rest of the time. Not really sure why I was in there. I could have used the hour break to do some studying. We had fun though, and I had a piece on my side that August called the “Angry Mom” which I made the general. August said they were Japan and I was Israel, so the spies I was sending in were Mossad agents. He also really liked my use of a Monty Python pepper pot voice for the general
We snagged another cookie on our way out and headed to school. I parked up in the bus lane area, right close to the cover. There were a few drops of rain and August was reluctant to get out, but we did it. We went to Carly’s classroom first to drop off the bag of books she wanted back there. August started playing, first spinning in one of the desks, then doing satellite work on paper, then drawing on the electronic whiteboard. I returned the bag of books to the library, then came back. He finished by playing with effects in PowerPoint.
We got him out of there and home around 5. He cuddled with Carly, who was tired, on the couch. I went and got them a blanket. She read some of The Talented Clementine. I got him halloumi and avocado tacos for dinner and he ate a taco and a half. He got hyper with Carly, jumping on her etc. and she left to go sit in one of the chairs. He worked in his fort and spied on her with binoculars until he was ready to go apologize.
We did education videos, starting with a couple of Super Tony videos the first was about trying to spend a billion dollars in a day), then the Kurzgesagt video on “Stellar Engines” (the newest), which is pretty mind-blowing, then the one on a “Moon Base”, which, surprisingly, he doesn’t think he’s seen before. And then finally “Black Hole Bomb”. Get your head around it was a word of the day, or phrase really.
Carly had taken a shower, now I went for a run. When I got back they were finishing a bath. They came out, trying to figure out how Carly could spend a Googolplex of dollars. He made a long list: “…a 5 kilometer long trash compactor…some golden rings, the most expensive car in the world…a submarine…your own team of drones, a space station…”
I took a shower and she brushed his teeth and read a little (Clementine, I think). We listened a Circle Rounds, “Wit and Wordplay”, and he went to the bathroom, then listened to “The Dancing Goats” as he fell asleep. He was still awake at the end though and I put on the Lullatone album The Bedtime Beat. He liked the first time and asked me to add it to his playlist, then he fell right asleep at about 10:15.
Today’s song:
Listening to his music:
Creepy song:
A song bit:
All the parts he knows of “Just a Little Love”:
Hammering:
Spinny desks:
