I went in to wake him up right at 9. Took about 15 minutes. Carly headed to the pharmacy to try to get the wart medicine for August. We finished reading Wayside School Is Falling Down. We did our teeth, then headed downstairs. He said, “In the future there will probably be electric charging.” He made it sound like a type 1 civilization thing, and I told him that that should happen sooner than that.
We played Minecraft in our survival world. Carly got back and joined. He was adding details to our base area, like stairs made out of quartz. Carly asked if he had moved one of her chests. He said he had needed to and apologized, and pointed out that he had left a gift when he did it. And influence of Hermitcraft, I think, where players regularly do nice things for each other.
I cut up pieces of paper and wrote a bunch of activities on them; I had had a few new ideas for today. I folded the pieces in half. August couldn’t handle that, and needed them crumpled up. But he doesn’t like crumpling them himself. He likes uncrumpling them though. They were playing war, with Carly taking over my side of the battle.
For the first paper he drew ‘Ches on real board’. He set up a random position, and he and I played through it, analyzing it quite a bit. He next drew ‘Read a book’. He started Nick Bones again, but said he didn’t like it. He then read all of Biscuit and His Big Friend. I’m glad he’s back into those, as he had declared he didn’t like Biscuit books at all several months ago.
I started lunch (French fries, schnitzel, etc.) but when he drew ‘Sign language’ I switched with Carly and found the ASLRochelle videos. We finished the first video and started the second. For every new sign he’d run and show Carly. He learned two ways to say ‘I always love you’ and also learned ‘really’. Carly got him cucumber and watermelon as the other stuff cooked.
He next drew ‘chess on iPad’. We played in Chess.com on my iPad (on the app). We did several of the puzzles, which were perfect for him. We ate lunch together, inside. When Carly was getting out the fries he made sure she didn’t put a lot of salt on them. I started reading Sideway Stories from Wayside School. We read the first couple, then he went and played piano.
We went upstairs to wrestle. We learned about color blindness using Minecraft:https://youtu.be/YVQlbjHSrXc
after he asked about it. The pharmacy didn’t have his medicine earlier, but now they did, so Carly went and got it.
When she got back I went up to work. He listened to a story for alone time, then they played Minecraft. He next drew ‘Prehistoric Road Trip’ (we had seen a mention of it on Smarter Every Day or Brainscoop the other day). I opened that on the PBS app for him, and they watched the first half (30 minutes) of the episode. He next drew ’Yoga’. He didn’t want to use a video, and just wanted to follow Carly, and I think they went outside to do yoga together. He next used 5 starts and they did 30 more minutes of Minecraft.
He drew ‘Earpeggio’ and came up and got me. I took a break from work. As he ate dinner, we worked on interval identification, then started to do tempos, deciding if a rhythm was 60, 90, 120, etc. beats per minute. This had him walking around the room a lot, trying to decide how what we were listening to compared to his walking pace (this goes back to me realizing that my walking pace with him in the backpack was right close to 120 bpm).
Vivian called at 5:30 and they started early. I went for a run and showered, then did more work as Carly got the blanket and they went outside, Colin on the phone, and they played war outside. I went outside and worked in the chair as they kept playing. He drew the magazine activity at one point but went back to playing chess.
Then to Chess with Oma. He wanted to go upstairs to the bedroom. They played for a long, long time. Carly gave him peanut butter crackers, and at some point August called her in because he’d gotten a bunch on the cheap blanket. Carly cleaned it off, although it wasn’t ever clear how it had happened. He was still hungry, so he had grapes and cucumber. He went to the bathroom, and Cherie waited for him, and they were still playing at 9:30. When he went back n the room he said, “Zinnie the great chess master is back.” They said goodbye about 9:45.
Carly had him take his bath, and I cleaned up the cockroach Carly had smashed downstairs. I talked to August about putting on the medicine for his warts and he told me, “Don’t put it on when I’m moving around when I sleep; I’m known for my rolling when I sleep.”
He listened to the Stories Podcast “White Doe, Fairy Doe”, then we brushed our teeth. He had chosen his MATH shirt, and now, looking in the mirror, he exclaimed, “Hey! It’s that kind of shirt…” He meant an acrostic; I had just taught him about those when we were looking at the WBAIS CoronaZine.
Got the lights of and we listened to Rival Consoles. He explained why he likes two pillows, and sleeping upright. I remembered how, for his first three years, he only fell asleep upright, so I shouldn’t be surprised. He also described his snot like criminals in the morning; the dry snot is like the bars of the prison, and if it is removed the criminals escape.
He was finally asleep about 11:50, after which I put the wart medicine on his two warts on his feet.
War with mama:
Learning a new song:
War outside:
Chess with oma and sticky fingers:
