He was up once during the night. I then went up and woke him up just before 9. Downstairs he said good morning to Carly, then we got a message that Gilad could play Minecraft. He logged on, and Gilad made a new jungle world, and August, Gilad, and his brother played together in survival. They had fun exploring the jungle, a chasm, and a jungle temple. His brother used commands to summon lightning and make them fly, which we didn’t know we could do.
They actually ended up playing for an hour and a half. But it was his morning time as well, and it was good to be chatting with Gilad and his older brother. We then had cereal and soy milk for breakfast and he started composing. He never really got around to composing “Time’s Out” like he planned, but he learned several new things about composing. He then switched to listened to music in Supersonic Piano. We then went and worked on “Run”. At first he said it was so hard and was surprised I could play it at all. But then he got right into it. He got the first 8 bars down right away; by the end of the day he’d be playing the first 16 repeatedly, and he’d know the following 8 (where chording was introduced) but wouldn’t play it for Carly.
From there we read How To and watched a video about the Hyperloophttps://youtu.be/O_FyOBCVGWE
He then told me all about a hyper loop he made through space. The test tunnel is attached to the moon. I think the full thing went to Jupiter at first, but then when I asked he said it made “A secant through the earth.” We then ended up discussing what the word internet means, and the difference between internet and intranet. For lunch he had the leftover salmon and I made us hot dogs.
Over on the rug I opened the Coursera Composing Like Mozart course and we watched the first video. He watched some, but it didn’t hold his attention, or just inspired him to go play piano. He was wanting Carly to come down so he could play “Run” for her. He asked me to look up commands in Minecraft and we looked at the list.
For alone time we listened to a KidNuz and started a Wow in the World: “A Scientific Songtacular”. Carly came down and he showed off what he’d learned. He did alone time, then we played Minecraft in a new jungle world and were figuring out commands and ended up having fun making water fall from the sky and whatnot.
He did more Notion, and I found their sample composition, like Beethoven. We watched/listened to a couple and August was really impressed: “I want to compose like that.” We read How To, then worked on the second phrase of Run. I was feeling tired, so when he needed more to do we watched most of episode 2 of Cosmos and had popcorn. Carly came down and he then did alone time and listened to more of Wow in the World. For Minecraft we used commands to make big blocks of TNT and blow things up. He was getting excited and knocked over a glass of water. Luckily, no damage. He told Carly, “You can see our decimated landscape”
He next did a piano competition with her and lots of composing. Colin called. They ended up upstairs with Carly next to August on the bed. They chatted for a long time. I was doing boring financial stuff downstairs. He came down and finally ate dinner (pasta and broccoli and whatnot). I practiced “Run” on the piano. He then went upstairs to say “salve” to Carly. That’s Latin for hello. He requested more brussel sprouts and said, “Here’s the cool thing about Brussels sprouts: the name.”We read all but last two chapters of Ben Braver. He ate more and more Brussels sprouts.
Carly’s been having a sore neck (probably all of the distant learning) so up on the bed we gave her a neck massage. She then gave August a bath. August came in and told me “Here’s some cool numbers: 1 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128…” At first I thought he was trying to tell me the Fibonacci Sequence but had it wrong, but then he pointed out that each number was simply the total of all the numbers before it…seems like he came up with all of that on his own.
They went and did a short yoga thing together, then in bed we listened to “Prometheus Steals the Fire” on Stories Podcast. Sin was a word of the day. Then “Two Daughters”. For a new meditation sort of track, with the lights off and him in bed, we listened to “Pebble Patience” from Peace Out. I’ve started to download episodes in advance, as podcasts and music stream so poorly now. We tried to listen to some Benge again for music, but it was stuttering, so we Steve Reich’s “Piano Phase” instead. He was asleep sometime around 11.
Minecraft time 1:
Minecraft time 2:
Playing the first 8 bars of “Run”:
Minecraft fill craziness 1:
Minecraft fill craziness 2:
Silly on the bed:
