He was up just before 8. I had just gotten up. I went back up and he lay on top of the covers of my bed for a few minutes, then went down and said “Boo!” to Carly. They almost immediately started doing math, reviewing and improving on his understanding of area and circumference of a circle. My contribution was to introduce absolute value when he was talking about finding the circumference of a circle with a negative radius.
I made scrambled eggs for breakfast as they played Minecraft. We ate, then he played piano. A little work on the piece, but mainly he worked on a couple of his own melodies. Carly headed to the store. He had done alone time and we then did Minecraft, blowing up TNT. He watched two Bright Side videos: one about water purification, and one that was facts about airplanes.
He was then playing piano and Carly got home. He did his alone time, playing piano, and then they played Minecraft together. He ate yogurt and watched Life Noggin videos. One on cloning, then videos on “What if we brought extinct species back to life?” And “What if every cat suddenly died?”
I was making charts on the iPad, starting with one to teach him musical modes. That had Roman numerals on it, and he loved the idea of learning Roman numerals, so I made another chart for that, and we spent a lot of time learning Roman numerals. He got the system down pretty well. Carly made him (and me, when he didn’t like the ones with avocado) sushi. August was looking under the couch and said, “It’s like an infinite supply of treasures.” When he couldn’t find a flashlight with good batteries he asked, “Do we have ANY flashlights that have batteries that aren’t running out?”
I got him out in the yard. Carly asked if we noticed the new plant. We hadn’t. She finally told me which one it was. August had some way that he wanted to spy on Carly, but I convinced him to go up to the park and recycling with me first. We walked up and I did recycling. We went to the playground and told a big story together about seeds taking over the world. August had scooped together a big pile of seeds and dropped them with his hands, and as we walked home he finished telling his story, but was starting to rub his eyes and on the couch he hid his head under the blanket. I encouraged him to wash his hands and face, and he went and did it.
He did some graphing while Carly finished up what she was working on in the kitchen. He had been wanting Carly to go out to garden, part of his plan to spy on her, and finally she was able to and they both went out. They were outside for a good amount of time, and walked up to the park to pick some fresh rosemary. When they came back he came in and went to the bathroom and was talking about mosquitoes and how he didn’t want them to go extinct: “but I still like them…and I like the Ebola virus: part of nature.”
He declared “I want to make my own formulas.” Not sure what he meant specifically by that. We read more What If? and updraft was a word of the day. Carly was making food, and as she was finishing that I went for a run. As I left, I got him set up with a documentary on Curiosity Stream. It was about the world under the surface of the dirt. Carly made popcorn.
I got back and took a shower, then started writing down formulas as they did more math, in particular figuring out the equation for the length of a line.
We went upstairs. On the graphing calculator he had figured out how using the ‘Random’ function would make different shades of a color, and I taught him the word gradient. We also figured out how to use the ‘datasets’ command. Carly gave him a bath. In bed, we listened to “The Mouse Tower” on Stories Podcast, then listened to a meditation. He was then asleep around 10:30.
Song of the day on piano:
His fast song on piano:
Cool animated graph:
Salt on a plant experiment:
