JUNE: Home Learning - Week 12

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Monday: Back at home: home learning and working from home continues full steam ahead. We’ve figured out how to manage the systems and were getting all of our work done. Reed and Charlotte practiced on roller blades. We organized a bike ride for Charlotte with her friend, Chloe. 

 Tuesday: Michael helped us haul away all the branches we’d limbed - it felt great to get that taken care of! We played Yahtzee after lunch and Reed rolled a Yahtzee of sixes on his first turn! We had a fun afternoon of rollerblading/biking/running to Kidd Valley in Kenmore to get milkshakes as a celebration for all the hard work the kids are putting into home learning. Charlotte started to name all of her Lego figures and animals, including the new ones from Bryn and Harper for her birthday - putting them all up on her white board. I had a fun Book Club zoom to discuss "There There" by Tommy Orange.

 Wednesday: Charlotte and Edison help Reed on occasion with his lessons, which is cool. I have turned my front porch into a help-yourself poster making station in the hopes we’ll have a bunch of posters in support of the class of 2020 to hang up at their “graduation.” Edison had a science project involving plastic strips holding water that was designed to simulate a landfill liner. We learned that they often leak… Edison went on a bike ride with Alex and Eli - he was so happy to see his friends again! Meanwhile I took Charlotte and Reed on a four-mile rollerblade while I went running - they are getting great on skates!

 Thursday: More learning - Reed is doing a bunch of lessons on the letter V. He is reading really well now. Charlotte is doing some geometry in a workbook I bought for her a few months ago when she finishes the three math lessons assigned for the week. Edison did a perspective art project that turned out really cool. In the afternoon, Reed’s Minecraft stuffy came in the mail - he’d found it online and gave me all the money to purchase it. He was very proud, but commented that he had thought it would have been bigger. Charlotte had an Swim Team Zoom while Edison rode bikes again with Alex and Eli. Then we went to Cally and Craig’s to unwind and let the kids run free. We had a great chat about institutionalized racism and whiteness which was needed to help process and figure out what to do given the murder of George Floyd, protesting against police brutality and institutionalized white supremacy, etc. 

Friday: Charlotte did the landfill liner experiment. Reed read me his first “level 2” reading book and then he got to go online and pick out some more books he wanted to read. I hope we are developing another big reader! We went to Trader Joe’s to stock up and had to wait in line about 20 minutes just to enter the store - and it is a county order to wear masks indoors, so we did our part.