Dealing with the now.... SHSH days 6 and 7

Hello!

I did not write yesterday! I could have, but there was not much to report other than the kids are doing well in our home school time, and I get frustrated when I am around my family too much sometimes!

Yesterday, we did our outside time, and it was FINALLY a nice warm day out there again. Nora did her 11:00 virtual preschool. I hope they do this again next week, because it was so great. They do a video with songs and games and a story for about 20-30 minutes, and then they post resources so you can further the learning at home. This whole week focused on colors and rainbows, and color mixing. We did many of the activities on our own. Yesterday, we tried color mixing on a paper towel with food coloring:

Here is Nora outside yesterday. She has been obsessed with picking the daffodils:

Alan has been doing the Scholastic learn from home program this week. I have him read 2-4 articles, watch accompanying videos, and then we mostly have discussions on the topics, although I have been throwing a little bit of writing and math in here and there. Yesterday, I had him do the 6th-9th grade article because his reading level is there anyway, and the topic was on Esports, so I thought the video gaming aspect would be of interest to him. We've also been doing a lot of the animal themed articles and videos because he likes animals, and is interested in how they adapt and how they are different from us. He has read about endangered species, animal eyes, cat tongues, and some other things this week. I have not gotten pictures of him, I am aware, because 1) he does not usually like pictures taken of him and 2) he's just been sitting at the computer mostly as I work with him. But I have been proud of his participation and the discussions we have. I know that no matter what, I want to keep doing this every day in some aspect, because I have been enjoying learning with him and the discussions we have afterwards. I don't know how next week will look with him, because he is supposed to have distance learning work from school next week, so we will have to see what Monday brings.

I will probably do a post like this for the weekend too, with the days combined, because the schedule will be a little more relaxed, but we still plan to do some fun activities together!

In case you missed it, as of now:
Alan's return date to school is April 13
Nora's return date to school is May 11

Today, Jean joined us in the preschool fun:

and Nora worked on drawing some monsters from the printouts.

Finally, here is just a friendly reminder in times of stress:

Have a good weekend, and stay healthy, happy, and safe!