He was up just after 7:30. I met him up on the couch. We went downstairs, but he was still quite tired and lay cuddled in the blanket. We read a chapter of The Boxcar Children. We watched an Iskall video and interpretation was a word of the day. As were mimic and PS (postscript).
We went outside and he played with the swing for a while and talked about Minecraft. I then put down the picnic mat between the sun and shade. He curled up next to me and talked about falling asleep inside and me carrying him outside. I ended up reading The Boxcar Children. He got up on the swing and curled up for much of the time. He wanted to do alone time, so we went inside and he asked for help finding “Kangaroo and Joey Too” on Circle Round.
After alone time he did more Minecraft, playing in Lucky Block. For an educational video he watched the Kurzgesagt cancer video, and infallible was a word of the day. I then went and made signs for the first five Greek letters, and ended up putting them on the fridge. We then started the Ted Ed Earth School (https://ed.ted.com/earth-school) on day 1 with “Should we Eat Bugs?” (https://youtu.be/rDqXwUS402I) Entomophagy and nomadic were more new words.
We went upstairs for a game, with a new student named Kim, whose family grows bugs. We looked up anaphia. while we were up there. When we went downstairs we went outside and he worked with the Articulation app a bit, but turned more into just playing around with it. We ate lunch outside: crackers with tuna and cheese, and cauliflower, followed by chocolate milk. When Carly came down he talked to her about her students and teaching and grading. We then watched the GoodTimeswithScar video and cult and miscellaneous were new.
We went back to the Ted Ed lesson, answering the quiz questions and going to the National Geographic activity about how products move around the world, then mostly playing through the cocoa growing activity a few times: susceptible volatile and export were terms we discussed.
He played some piano, then asked for a poor country. We looked at the globe, and he chose“Ethiopia. It’s like Antrhopod. I like to say it…It’s a very satisfying feeling.” There was some sort of game associated with that after we went upstairs and I let him play a couple minutes of Happy Glass, mainly watching all of the game ads, which he likes. He then listened to “The Hat, the Horn, and the Purse” just because. He asked what stingy means.
Downstairs he scared Carly outside. We went in to earn some stars, but he went to the piano and played and played. He challenged Carly to piano competitions. He was talking to her about how he was transposing his playing from one minor key to another. He then talked about showing her some of the Supersonic Piano pieces he would learn, and made a really cool analogy that he talked about at length: “Think of my practice as a road trip. Antimelancholicis the destination. Our house is the C song…I have a long way to go on our car trip. I want to show you places on the way…”
Eventually Carly had to head back up to work. He started getting impatient and sad waiting for Vivian and Colin. Not sure why it was so hard for him today. We watched part of Twelfth Night, from the National Theatre. He got distracted by chasing a fly out the window. We read some of The Boxcar Children, but that wasn’t cutting it. We watched a KEXP live performance by a band called Great Grandpa. We watched a few minutes of that but grew bored. We switched to Alt-J and he liked that much better, but eventually he was acting really tired and I was afraid he was sick. He said he wasn’t, and said he wanted a podcast. He lay on the couch and listened to the new Stories Podcast episode, “Animal Jam”. He recites parts of the opening and ending of both Stories Podcast, and Circle Round, which he had surprised/confused Carly with earlier. He then listened to “Loki and the Golden Hair”.
Finally it was time for Minecraft and he played with Vivian and Colin. I went for a walk. When I got back they were watching the Mars documentary and eating popcorn. He was asking Carly about words like execute interposed saga _contours_and fringe. At 8:17 he walked over to me and asked, “Is it time to take my bath?”
Carly gave him a bath, then they were in the big bedroom doing a lot of laughing, and reading something. He came into his bedroom and did some Earpaggio with me. He had a Brother and Sister game with Ms. Mean being told she had to change and be nicer, and he used a new word he learned: “Cats, escort Ms. Mean from the school.”
We went and brushed our teeth. I read “The Frog Prince”, where surpassing and rap were new. He then listened to “The Magic Chalk and the Very Real T-Rex” and learned about freeze tag. He went to the bathroom then we listened to Peace Out. Either from that or randomly he asked what a culprit was. We put on the Moby Ambient album and he was asleep at 10:45.
Spin Dance:
Piano piece 1:
Piano piece 2:
Trying to film his piano road trip analogy:
