He called me in once during the night, breaking the three-night streak, but still, he’s been doing well.
I went up just before 8:50 to wake him up. As he stretched I asked what he’d been dreaming about. When I mentioned Minecraft he said, “Something like that.” He also said there were treats involved, and asked if he could have an ice cream bar as there had been ice cream bars in his dream.
Downstairs he played piano, then in Minecraft we were marine biologists, and made more progress in finding animals. August also now knows what mangroves are. We had oatmeal for breakfast, and while we ate I showed him the Xisuma video showing off the Mojang April Fool’s version of Minecraft. August was skeptical when it was called the “last” update and “infinity” version, and liked that it was an April Fool’s joke. We went outside and he told me all about Bar’s infinite update. One of the things in it was a “Chiseled wither.” I don’t know what that meant, but I liked it. We went upstairs for more Minecraft and Ms. safe and Millie games. Back down at 11:20.
I had an activity to learn more about prime numbers, crossing off multiples on a 1 to 100 chart, but he didn’t want to do it, again. Got him to do it after a few minutes though. He was then graphing, and asked why sin(pi) equaled 0 in the graphing calculator, but some decimal in the scientific calculator. As I was starting to explain it was probably because one was set to radians and the other to degrees he figured it out himself, and we talked more about why and the connection to circles.
We then did more piano, and Earpaggio. I took to playing and identifying the chords on the piano, which he didn’t really need, but it was also a good sight reading activity. He was then quizzing me, playing things on the piano for me to identify. Which was difficult, because hew as also throwing in things like inversions.
He did alone time, and listened to the Story Pirates where Peter gets stuck in a time loop. We realized that since we don’t drive now we need to start listening to those at home, and chose that spot to ease back into season 3. We then played Minecraft. He did random worlds to pretend he was doing the book thing in the April Fool’s snaphot, then we were marine biologists for a bit.
We had nutty noodles for lunch with Carly outside. Then back inside we learned a few more measures of “Hacked”. We did math on the iPad, and we did binary and hexadecimal numbers, with him writing the numbers for me to figure out, then helping out with the calculator when I needed assistance. After that we watched the new GoodTimeswithScar video and had crackers and peanut butter.
Got him out on a walk for a chocolate snack bar. He ran out of the gate and almost right into the little dog that lives up the street. The dog didn’t do anything, but August ran back into the yard and took a minute of coaxing to get out. He had a Brother in Minecraft game as we walked. We just went over towards the cloud bridge and on the way back he saw a box of plates in the junk area and chose one with flowers and pomegranates on it. I washed it with the hose before taking it in and washing it with soap.
August went to the bathroom and kept discussing Minecraft. He went and sat next to Carly in the comfy chairs and was telling her about Minecraft, I think. When I tried to go out he asked me to go back inside. After a few minutes he came in and went to the piano. A little later he heard Carly recording a video outside. She said she was doing a video on fractions and he ran out to her. He thought she had said “fractals”. It was supposed to be something to do withVivian and Colin, but then we figured out it wouldn’t work on the iPads. He wanted to show them fractals, but just wanted to do a video of him flying in the fractal Minecraft world.
He did some Desmos, and they called Cassie. I was working on some journal stuff and figured out how to add the covers of the NY Times and Haaretz and Seattle Times to our journal every day with just a click of a button.
I went for a run, then took a quick shower and started working. Carly had been making brown rice, chicken, and broccoli and August had it for dinner, and seconds later. I worked on the couch, August was playing Minecraft with Vivian (they hadn’t done any math today, as Vivian wasn’t engaging with Carly), and Carly was working outside. August had a tough time ending with Vivian as she was still playing; we had let them play long. Handled it, mostly. They were able to switch to reading Stickman with Vivian and I went upstairs to work.
Carly brought him up for his bath, then I finished reading How To with him on the couch bed. Constant and dispose were words of the day. He finished his crackers and peanut butter. In the bedroom he saw Carly typing and asked how a person types. I compared it to learning how his hands move on the piano. He said, “But I need to learn it so I can properly write.”
We then brushed and flossed. He did a better job of brushing while I brushed today and it was the best he’s done on his own teeth in a long time. He was with Carly for a couple minutes and told me, “I just told mama a life back about programming…if there’s a computing error…” He told her about the error correction (or whatever it is called) that we had learned about a couple weeks ago in Brilliant.
We were in bed at 10. Listened to “What You Sow” on Stories Podcast, then “The Three Bs” on Peace Out. He requested Beethoven’s Fifth. Going to sleep was a painful one, as he kept waking me up saying he couldn’t sleep. He was finally asleep by 11:15.
A fast tune:
Lava game:
Fast fingers:
Glove shoes:
Song down the piano:
Just showing them fractals:
These are fractals in Minecraft (sideways):
Automated function:
C’s fraction vidéo:
