Recap of the School Week

Space week was a big hit. Our theme is creation, so this week we moved on to water.

Learning about the water cycle

Kathryn's last rocket board.

Monday night each kid made an appetizer/side for dinner! David made still cucumber sandwiches and Kathryn made a caprese salad.

Dance

Discussing and drawing forms of precipitation.

Stir fry. #nailedit

Expanded water cycle

Water cycle experiment. I made it rain! (In side the jar!)

Digital reading hangout

Drawing about where we find water on the farm

Friday afternoon movies. Talk about comfortable!

Friday afternoon surprise! The guys in green showed up to mulch. David had to get out his equipment too.

Thursday

Another day full of meetings. Goals for homeschool today were pretty low and required self study. Half the class excelled, the other half just wanted more play time. I guess I'll take that.

Looking like we're all working hard.

What David really wanted...another fort.

Its hard to see, but it snowed twice 😱❄️. In honor of the snow, popsicles were the reward for completing school assignments 🤣.

Kathryn's creative writing while David napped. I was on conference call #3 and I even skipped one. 

Afternoon snacks included snowman marshmallows (thank you Uncle Rob). Now they want Christmas tomorrow, but oh wait.. it's Easter!

Dinner adventure is squash gnocchi (second time, they are so yummy!). Kathryn is getting pretty good at rolling gnocchi. She did the whole tray!

David working hard. He is requesting another set of magna tiles for his birthday. So he can build even bigger!

Thank you Grandma Diane and Grandpa Gary for the Easter gifts!

Love you!

Monday and Tuesday

Sorry. It's a bit to post these recaps daily, but I want to try to document as much as possible. I rearranged my schedule a bit to start the morning with two hours of learning with the kids, then work. They were not pumped about the change. David just wants to play all day.

Monday started with Kathryn's special day request. Notice the beach inspired clothing and smilely face toast.

A highlight was Kathryn's first class zoom meeting. They are planning another for Wednesday.

We also had an unexpected surprise. Someone kept peering through my office window.

All day we had wild turkeys looking in.

Working hard on writing their own stories. An activity Kathryn dreamed up. 

More dance time.

Cleaning day on Tuesday!

Our goal (meaning mine) is to not miss trash day tomorrow for the third time.

Some indoor projects while I did 8 hours on 3 different webinars.

The last I finished outside, because it's such a gorgeous day and we need this fresh air.

Golfing

Theatric dance to the whole Frozen 2 sound track. I'm sure our neighbors love us because they needed to hear it from the yard.

Tractor driving while playing space. The puppies are Strelka and Bella.

Then the pirates found the water guns. I haven't been shot yet, but I've been threatened several times. 

Friday

The day started with both little people waking early, whole I was trying to work early.

Good thing they are cute!

They had 5 school activities to complete to earn movie afternoon. Let's just say Kathryn was very focused on completing the five.

David was more focused on having fun. Kathryn earned the movie time while David earned a long nap. All we're happy with the outcome.

Play continued into the evening.

Color sorting the trucks at Kathryn's suggestion. 

Playing with toys that haven't made an appearance in a while. Also asking what happened to other toys they vaguely remember.  🤷

Kathryn requested another game of cribbage.

David sure loves the dam!

And as a PSA. 

Saturday will have facemask making along with Easter decorating!

Thursday!

The theme that kept emerging over Thursday was 'this day is going so fast'! I said it, Kathryn said it numerous times, and David just wanted more time to play with his dam.

I started my day (after quiet time and working out) with calls and texts to family and friends.

The kids decided to pitch in to the clean the house.

They we're so enthusiastic to use the spray bottles.

We cleaned a lot more and longer than I anticipated because I wasn't going to pass up eager helpers.

They were also highly motivated to fill their 10 frame for a special reward. They picked going to see Daddy at the nursery for the reward.

Kathryn working on regrouping.

David ordered his number sticky notes (we did a numbers scavenger hunt on Tuesday).

Then a bit more white board time after long naps.

Not sure what is happening here, but they were discussing something. Then it was finally off to the nursery!

While the crew was digging, Dad was fixing field tile.

Kathryn and David we're very eager to help.

David said this was the best because he got to do work and get dirty 😂.

At this point I have a sweet video, it's hard to hear, but David is asking/telling John that it will be great when he works at the nursery too. That they could work together every single day and drive tractors together and fix things. 💚

While this isn't a daily activity at the nursery, the field tile needed fixed before the rain next week and the trees were dug so John could get to the tile. The kids though, thought it was the most awesome time. As an added bonus, they got to ride home with Dad with the windows down the whole way. Absolutely on cloud nine!

In other news, our school is now closed thru the end of the month. I'm personally very happy with the decision, as I don't think I could have sent them on the 13th.

One other update I don't have a picture for, we had pork tacos for dinner. The pork roast was shredded and stewed in taco seasoning, onions, garlic, and peppers. Highly recommend it, it was a huge hit!