Week 4: April 20-April 24
Tuesday, April 21
I needed to keep a picture of the front of the card he made you...
Reading his poem...
Wednesday, April 22
Today their work continued to be shoddy, BUT I tried to sneak in some extras. They already made treasure maps way back when you assigned it. But they made new ones. But we go hiking a lot. I will put them in charge of the map next time. And Seb loves combing through my atlas (from 1978!! LOL) I'll also try to get him to do some of the workbook. I showed them a Borderland map today and explained to them how to read it, why scale was important (so they didn't get stuck doing too-long a hike--they seemed to understand that!), direction, the legend/symbols, etc.
Today for earth day we read through the poem and had a much better discussion of why the earth is like us than what they wrote on paper. I showed them pictures of pollution in cities before/after COVID. I also showed them the Little Blue Dot photo of earth. They were amazed at how tiny it was...I hope it drove home the message of how minuscule and special our earth is!
Bucket Fillers pledge for morning announcements
During small group! Nice of him to get out of his PJs! LOL
Thursday, April 23
Today we listened to Songs of Protest (curated by Mama) for music. I introduced them to "Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron, "Mississippi Goddamn" by Nina Simone (I got their attention by saying this was ONE time--racism--where it was ok for someone to use the word "goddamn"), and "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs. A bit radical? Maybe... ;-) But Seb loves it. And if I raise a social justice warrior, I'll be a happy mama.
Bedroom map. It's accurate... ;-)
Shape Museum. Excuse the horribly messy kitchen table, school desk, etc.
With his beetle/Bumblebee transformer
There were no electronics this afternoon, and they accomplished quite a bit. They destroyed my half-done puzzle. :-( But they did set up a Leto city...so I guess it's ok they ruined hours of my work.
And they came up with a handshake...I can never get videos to work...so not sure if this will.
We also watched a video about how ants communicate (following up on our observation of ants during a picnic lunch like 2 weeks ago). And, we have a cute couple of cardinals living in our back yard. They are always around...I googled them and shared some facts with Seb. They are probably laying eggs! :-) Both male AND female cardinals sing (vs. just the male species like most birds). Males court the females by feeding them well and often--my kind of courting! LOL Cardinals are usually faithful companions, but not always...This couple is always in the same tree...they fly around each other and they are adorable! Fun to see.
Karate in the evening. They also do dance parties to Spanish songs with their abuelitos in Mexico via Facetime. And they wrestle and play Monkey in the Middle with a pair of socks or a soft ball in the hallway. We are still making our way slowly through On the Banks of Plum Creek. We only manage about 2 chapters a night. Usually the boys are in bed by 8. But now karate online is 7-8 so by the time they shower and practice math facts, Seb is falling asleep while I'm reading. :-(
I caved and bought a cheap home pickleball set--I love any sport with a racquet. Also got spikeball. If it EVER stops raining we'll get our pitching net and soccer net in the back yard, and we can be outside all day...
Friday, April 24
Here is Seb reading the poem about the dog. He LOVED recording himself! ;-)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFOQ2b4L8hseAHq2n2-pcnewoP1mdNfM/view
Here he is making his Screencastify of the poem.
His map exercise for the day was a map of school. :-(
We skipped making the calm down jars for the SEL. They already have them...and I can't trust them with a glass jar when they are mad. Trust me on that one. So, I had them write in their Big Life Journal. The topic was "following your heart."
They were playing nicely again for over an hour in the living room with Legos and Transformers. They had invented a whole story about the Decepticons. The work for the day got thrown off because of it, but I like to let them do as much creative play as possible, especially given how much time they like to be on electronics!
I was working at the kitchen table while Seb chatted with you. I've never seen him behave that well on Zoom before. LOL
Paper airplanes for art-and for Whole Class Meeting next week. They both made two different kinds. That was all I could get them to do before Seb had a blow out because he just wants Mrs. Sanpietro and Mama "sucks." Yikes.
Here is the link to this week's google doc of work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tDMnR6xTgjL5vdqO5yap-5DUlo9XDqACCV3NSuoYIPg/edit?usp=sharing
I needed to keep a picture of the front of the card he made you...
Reading his poem...
Wednesday, April 22
Today their work continued to be shoddy, BUT I tried to sneak in some extras. They already made treasure maps way back when you assigned it. But they made new ones. But we go hiking a lot. I will put them in charge of the map next time. And Seb loves combing through my atlas (from 1978!! LOL) I'll also try to get him to do some of the workbook. I showed them a Borderland map today and explained to them how to read it, why scale was important (so they didn't get stuck doing too-long a hike--they seemed to understand that!), direction, the legend/symbols, etc.
Today for earth day we read through the poem and had a much better discussion of why the earth is like us than what they wrote on paper. I showed them pictures of pollution in cities before/after COVID. I also showed them the Little Blue Dot photo of earth. They were amazed at how tiny it was...I hope it drove home the message of how minuscule and special our earth is!
Bucket Fillers pledge for morning announcements
During small group! Nice of him to get out of his PJs! LOL
Thursday, April 23
Today we listened to Songs of Protest (curated by Mama) for music. I introduced them to "Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron, "Mississippi Goddamn" by Nina Simone (I got their attention by saying this was ONE time--racism--where it was ok for someone to use the word "goddamn"), and "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs. A bit radical? Maybe... ;-) But Seb loves it. And if I raise a social justice warrior, I'll be a happy mama.
Bedroom map. It's accurate... ;-)
Shape Museum. Excuse the horribly messy kitchen table, school desk, etc.
With his beetle/Bumblebee transformer
There were no electronics this afternoon, and they accomplished quite a bit. They destroyed my half-done puzzle. :-( But they did set up a Leto city...so I guess it's ok they ruined hours of my work.
And they came up with a handshake...I can never get videos to work...so not sure if this will.
We also watched a video about how ants communicate (following up on our observation of ants during a picnic lunch like 2 weeks ago). And, we have a cute couple of cardinals living in our back yard. They are always around...I googled them and shared some facts with Seb. They are probably laying eggs! :-) Both male AND female cardinals sing (vs. just the male species like most birds). Males court the females by feeding them well and often--my kind of courting! LOL Cardinals are usually faithful companions, but not always...This couple is always in the same tree...they fly around each other and they are adorable! Fun to see.
Karate in the evening. They also do dance parties to Spanish songs with their abuelitos in Mexico via Facetime. And they wrestle and play Monkey in the Middle with a pair of socks or a soft ball in the hallway. We are still making our way slowly through On the Banks of Plum Creek. We only manage about 2 chapters a night. Usually the boys are in bed by 8. But now karate online is 7-8 so by the time they shower and practice math facts, Seb is falling asleep while I'm reading. :-(
I caved and bought a cheap home pickleball set--I love any sport with a racquet. Also got spikeball. If it EVER stops raining we'll get our pitching net and soccer net in the back yard, and we can be outside all day...
Friday, April 24
Here is Seb reading the poem about the dog. He LOVED recording himself! ;-)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFOQ2b4L8hseAHq2n2-pcnewoP1mdNfM/view
Here he is making his Screencastify of the poem.
His map exercise for the day was a map of school. :-(
We skipped making the calm down jars for the SEL. They already have them...and I can't trust them with a glass jar when they are mad. Trust me on that one. So, I had them write in their Big Life Journal. The topic was "following your heart."
I had them draw shapes they could remember and I didn't have enough toothpicks to make a lot of 3-D objects...so we learned how to draw them and built a pyramid (sort of--it was missing toothpicks) and a sphere.
They were playing nicely again for over an hour in the living room with Legos and Transformers. They had invented a whole story about the Decepticons. The work for the day got thrown off because of it, but I like to let them do as much creative play as possible, especially given how much time they like to be on electronics!
I was working at the kitchen table while Seb chatted with you. I've never seen him behave that well on Zoom before. LOL
Paper airplanes for art-and for Whole Class Meeting next week. They both made two different kinds. That was all I could get them to do before Seb had a blow out because he just wants Mrs. Sanpietro and Mama "sucks." Yikes.
Here is the link to this week's google doc of work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tDMnR6xTgjL5vdqO5yap-5DUlo9XDqACCV3NSuoYIPg/edit?usp=sharing
Another busy week! I love all the creative play. My son used to play Legos for hours and hours too.
ReplyDeleteThat is fine in my book! I love your recording of the poem. You did such a great job reading it! Keep working hard and keep being kind. Love, Mrs. Sanpietro