He was up at 8:50. Carly was headed up and met him. He asked, “What’s a butler?” Downstairs we read more of The Hardy Boys. We then went upstairs for a Brother and Sister game where Sister meets Eliza in the park. The Magic girls intentionally start a war over the bathroom at the family reunion. He asked a few time recently about the words niece and nephew. He asked about those again, then “What’s a son? Daughter?” “It’s weird that gender would matter. Gender’s weird.” “Grammar’s weird too. I like the one where it changes…words get passed around…yeah, I’m a descriptivist.”
We went downstairs and played Minecraft, working on our survival world. We had oatmeal, then he played piano and more piano. I had him practicing with the metronome. He had a couple of different tunes going, and we turned one into a composition that he called “Kangaroo and Joey Too”, because he said it sounded like the tune in that story on the podcast.
We went outside for the ball game and played with the new ball from Shmuel. He was trying to make up new rules, but having difficultly thinking of them. We played for a while, then he wanted to do a Brother game, where the class was playing the game with a blind game. So Ms. Safe turned it into a cooperative game where they were trying to catch the ball as many times as possible and be accurate with their throws and give auditory clues that the ball was coming. August was blind by wearing my sweatshirt over his head.
We went back upstairs for a some more of the Ms. Safe games, then came down and watched the newest GoodTimeswithScar. He then watched an Ants Canada video as I made lunch. He asked about the word caveat. We ate (the rest of the fake meat and rice) and he asked, “What’s arachnophobia?” “What’s a pest?” “What’s a phobia?” We discussed panphobia after he asked if there is a fear of everything. We listened to more of the “Are You Smarter than a Toilet?” episode of Wow in the World.
He listened to the Circle Round for alone time and Carly made a smoothie. In Minecraft we worked more on the storage room and he was doing enchanting with all the books he was getting through fishing. We then had Ted-Ed learning time, watching a backlog of videos I’ve tagged for him:
• “5 Types of Text Structure”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWGQ-_ipBY
• “How Does a Jellyfish Sting?”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu_ijC8HFRU
• “How Do Fish Make Electricity?”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0M7_HPSi14
• “What Would Happen if You Didn’t Sleep?”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqONk48l5vY
He had a Brother game where he had Brother getting stung by, then catching, an electric eel. He then asked to watch more of Frankenstein so we did that.
Carly came down, and we got him out on an ant walk. We went over and he fed them part of his chocolate bar. We came back for our masks and went back and fed them bits of the fake meat from lunch. Tried to get him to walk up to the park after that, but no luck. He found a coin, 10 agorot, on the sidewalk, and asked Carly to wash it. Think he then was able to buy a small piece of candy from her with it.
He was telling Carly all about ant trophallaxis. “I think they can send out a pheromone to tell they need food.” He then was playing piano and told her, “It’s time you learn how to play fast accurately.” And that, “It’s basically a titanium roadblock to being a good musician.” I went for a walk, and when I got back he was still teaching her piano. He said she was getting better.
I took a shower, then he played with Vivian and Colin. Vivian had downloaded the same Harry Potter world that he did, and they played with that. After Minecraft, he watched a documentary on the Magellanic Clouds (part of the series they’ve been watching) and had popcorn. He asked about celestial and fluxuate.
He wanted to go upstairs to play, and had updated his “Going upstairs” song and dance. Upstairs, we played out the story “Brother and Sister and the Astronomer from the Future”. Carly gave him a bath, and he was being really silly. She was ready to go to bed, so I got him over with me by asking for his help with Earpaggio. He helped, then had the idea of listening to a story with his headphones while I kept practicing. I got his headphones and he listened to “Two of Everything”. He paused to help me out more.
We went in and brushed our teeth. He asked, “What’s gossipy mean?” He talked about gossipy clams and pretended to be one: “Hey, we’re little chatterboxes…” Really seemed like it was from a story, but he couldn’t tell me what. Back in the room he listened to “The Wind and the Sun” on Stories Podcast and then “Bright Bright Feathers”. He talked about wanting a new game, “Best Fiends…it’s worth every cent.” It’s an app advertised on Stories Podcast, and he was reciting every line of the add.
For nonfiction time I read a few minutes of the consciousness book. Qualia was a good word, and we discussed it. He asked what a _philosopher _ was and we discussed that. I mentioned big questions, like what makes a good life, and he replied “A good life is being humble”.
I put on Bach organ music, but he was frustrating me with turning the lights back on and getting back into the Cheerios again and again (he was finishing up his second container). Got the lights off, but he woke me up a few times to talk Minecraft and something about a 10000 block challenge. He told me he couldn’t sleep, then woke me at 11:20 to say, “Dada, we should get more treats.” A bit later he said, “I probably have insomnia.” I think he needs more exercise during the day. He fell asleep somewhere between 11:30 and 11:40.
New song with metronome:
New song and playing with tempo:
Listening to “Kangaroo and Joey Too”:
More metronome practice:
Blind catching:
Feeding ants:
Improved going upstairs song and dance:
