Decided to start counting the days, starting with the first day we started cancelling activities and spending more time at home, which was his birthday.
He woke up twice during the night. The second time he called me back in as he couldn’t get back to sleep. I lay down on the lower bed for a while. He then woke up right at 8. Downstairs we read My First Book of Quantum Physics. Then went to piano time. He played his piece and I taught him how to move his hands for chords. Which he already knew, but thought was incorrect. So he was excited about this. He then wanted to do another Ms. Safe recital story. We did that but also got oatmeal for breakfast.
He sang “I love Beethoven, he’s my favorite of them all…” And then sang about note lengths. We went upstairs and did a long Ms. Safe recital story. Millie was a very shy student and would faint when news students arrived. We finally headed back downstairs at 10:20. At the piano we learned the page of musical symbols/terms from the Supersonics book. August liked that but it wasn’t enough. He showed me all of the symbols in Notion and talked about how he wanted to learn them all.
We then went back upstairs for a short game of Millie being in Ms. Danger’s class. She was really shy, and scared of Ms. Danger and the wild students in her class. Back downstairs we worked on “Fairy Flight” a little. We then watched the newest GoodTimeswithScar episode. I made baked salmon for lunch and August listened to “Dog King and the Borf of Yoolye” for alone time. We ate salmon and the last of the cauliflower and watched a Crash Course video about Nuclear Weapons (https://youtu.be/w4q1fG1vh5I). He had asked about how they work. That video didn’t quite get to his question, but was interesting.
We went back upstairs for a Millie and bullies game upstairs. She convinced them to be nice. Back downstairs I was opening the windows because it was so nice. August saw a lizard run up one of the kitchen windows. He went outstays for a bit. He finally used his iPad time for Minecraft.
Carly went to school to help hand out books to parents for their students. We went outside for chocolate milk and read Ben Braver. We then sat on the swing and used Brilliant to learn about sine, and I used Paper of course to help explain things. On Desmos he figured out how to graph a grid, all at 45 degrees from the coordinate system. We then did more sine. Congruent and unit circle were words of the day. On the couch he took his clothes off under the blanket, which was funny, but he got upset when I told him he needed to go wash his hands. Took a couple minutes but he gave in and went and washed them. He also asked why revolutions aren’t often successful. So we talked about leadership and who has the resources, etc. Carl was home at 3:20.
He demonstrated crescendo to her. He had thrown pillows on the ground, and when I asked him to clean them up he decided to use them, and lay on them saying, “They’re as comfy as a snail.” He next was composing music for Carly. Of course, he wouldn’t compose anything easy for her. He is clearly not just composing randomly now, as he would compose by picking out the notes (I.e. not recording himself) but then go to the piano and play the same line, first time. That is, he knew what he was doing. And he was composing using 32nd notes.
He was wanting to interact with Carly a lot but she still had work to do, so he and I watched the latest Stressmonster. OTT was a fun word of the day (meaning over the top). Cassie called with Colin and Carly brought the phone down. August talked to Colin for a while and played piano. They hung up, and we read How to. August was then asking questions like, “What does inverse mean?” “What’s a derivative?”
I went up to work. They did a lot of Zooming or whatever with Colin and Vivian. I heard a lot of piano playing as well. When I came down August was listening to a Circle Round story (“Granny’s Leather Bag”) for his alone time and Carly was asleep on the couch. He had had the last of the pie.
We played Minecraft, after which he walked around in circles talking about Minecraft. He asked what the moon looked like now and we found it on his chart. He wanted to go out and look for it. Not in sight, so we used the app and realized it wouldn’t be up for another 6 hours or something like that, because it is close to new.
He was still hungry so I offered cereal with milk. I asked if he wanted soy milk and he said yes, and said, “Thank you for reminding me of the alternative.” On the piano he was asking about moving his hands again, and that led to me showing him videos of Hazel Scott and Oscar Peterson playing piano. He was in awe.
I got him upstairs and he scared Carly. He told her, “I scared you so much. You practically jumped out of your pants.” She gave him a bath and I brushed his teeth. In bed he told me, “Once I had a dream that I was skateboarding through the house…it was weird because I’ve never skateboarded before.” We listened to Stories Podcast’s “The Blind Men and the Elephant” and he really wanted another story so we listened to Circle Round’s “Progress Makes Progress” For a meditation we did Bedtime Explorers’ “Tyranosaurus” A little different music today, listening to the album Inkwell by the Barrett Martin Group. He was asleep at 10:50.
A morning composition:
Big leaps:
Showing Colin how he wears himself out on the bed:
