Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Tuesday: building

There was a lot of building going on today.

Joshua made a dragon's lair.



We got some weapons for karate (because his age isn't having classes outside near the parking lot) and he made holders for all of them, along with the blue knife we already had.

Isaac made a bunch of bad guys with his linking blocks.

Monday, June 15, 2020

Monday: it got better

Isaac started out the day with a rather poor attitude.  I was unimpressed.  However, he managed to turn it around and I was so happy.  He decided to do his 'boring' school things today, and he was excited to get them done and moved onto the 'not really boring' items.

Science camp was today.  They're making water runs this week.  Joshua was so excited when he figured out to tip the blue cup so it would catch all the water.


Isaac made assorted runs too.

Joshua's lego challenge was a rocket.  He made an excellent one and then made a background to go with it.

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Saturday

I brought the pots in because the deck is getting washed and stained soon.  Horizon likes to sit on the top of the pot and try to grow.

Isaac made another scratch game here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/404647645.  My high score is 186.  It's obviously made by a kid, but the game play works pretty well.

Friday, June 12, 2020

Friday: a pretty good day

This morning Joshua had lots of important things to tell me right after I woke up.  I think there was something about Isaac and a lot about this boss the boys made up called Gone-Gone.  He was so serious and I really just couldn't care.

This afternoon we went to Holland Electric Park.  It's the first time we've been there.  It was sunny and loud in a few parts, but there were a ton a flowers and the path was nice and paved.




Thursday, June 11, 2020

Thursday: Lego, teacher

Today went much better than yesterday, although I'm not really sure why.  The boys worked for quite a while for their Lego challenges.

Isaac's was to grab a printed piece and make a scene around it.  He grabbed a target and made an archery range.  It had one...um..aisle that the target changed from a target to a monster that shot missiles.



Joshua made a party for Snowfoot.  It included an ice cream cake, donuts (those were actually for me though), a cake with a polar bear on it, ice water with a straw, a polar bear Popsicle, a knife (to cut the cake), and some fish (precut - the blue squares).

This afternoon Isaac had the chance to say good bye in person to his teacher.  He finally watched the goodbye video from last Friday today, so it was nice that he could see her right away again because he was a bit sad after that.  No one else came while we were there, so we spent a bit more time talking than I expected.



Wednesday: meh

Today wasn't awesome.  It wasn't terrible, but Isaac didn't want to do anything.  While I understand, I didn't want to do anything either, it was annoying.

We took a walk this morning; the boys got hot.


Isaac helped Joshua with his math.

Hurricane remnants came through.  I read that while this is Hurricane Christobal, it was formed from remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Tuesday: the day

Today was not as awesome as yesterday.  It wasn't bad, it was just more of the same thing.  I was trying to grade and the boys were trying to not do school (sort-of) and it just felt blah.

We did make it to the library for the first time!  Oh, finally.  I've put holds on a ton of books but only a few were available.  I think there was a run on the library right before everything shut down.  I'm glad we were able to get some, but Isaac is going through his books at the rate of about a book per day and I really need more for him.  He likes the graphic novels and the books with a lot of pictures, but I think we might need to change to more words and fewer pictures if he keeps this up.

Joshua worked on making a belt holder out of Lego.  It currently has two levels, but more can be added as needed.