We're slowly settling into life under the Covid-19 restrictions. The weekend started out normal enough. We weeded the dead space behind the garage. The kids were great helpers and earned a $1 each for their troubles.
The weather has cooperated with decent temperatures, but also a lot of rain. Muddy spots in the backyard were good for another hour of fun!
On Monday, we started the serious business of education, with our digital guides, of course.
Jackson's chess club was on the ball and managed to arrange an online chess class and tournament on Tuesday. Jackson fought valiantly, but it was tough going in the K-6 group for him. The platform ranks you as you play, so hopefully future tournaments will be more balanced for him. The club intend to hold them once a week. They reported about 450 kids participated from around the country.
Norah got creative using rolled-up paper and scotch tape as construction materials. Her "airplane" is now about 4 sq. feet and the envy of her brother.
With all the rain, exercise time moved indoors some days. I don't know which video this was, but we enjoyed Yoga with Cosmic Kids and the story of "Squish the fish" another day.
The "Pants on Fire" podcast is now our go-to podcast companion during afternoon snack time.
Thursday we broke out the bikes and Norah rode on her own for the first time. Friday morning she woke up asking to go biking, but the rain had other ideas. She finally got her wish after dinner, and was tearing down the hill at the end of our street. There have been lots of kids on bikes around the neighborhood this week.
Our saving grace, the daily schedule on a whiteboard. We started on Monday, and it worked so well that we decided to keep it going on the weekends. One day after lunch, Jackson walked over to the board, read the words "Clean-up" and started cleaning up without a word of parental input. That's what I call magic! 😃
Before the school shutdown, Jackson was really into trading Pokemon cards with the kids in his after-school program and our neighbors. He eventually asked me if I had Pokemon cards when I was a kid. I responded "No, but I had something similar called baseball cards.". I still have 1,000's of them in a box. Who knew those cards would buy several hours of entertainment for Jackson and Norah! At one point I could hear Jackson reading interesting facts off the cards to Norah...
The weather has cooperated with decent temperatures, but also a lot of rain. Muddy spots in the backyard were good for another hour of fun!
On Monday, we started the serious business of education, with our digital guides, of course.
Jackson's chess club was on the ball and managed to arrange an online chess class and tournament on Tuesday. Jackson fought valiantly, but it was tough going in the K-6 group for him. The platform ranks you as you play, so hopefully future tournaments will be more balanced for him. The club intend to hold them once a week. They reported about 450 kids participated from around the country.
Norah got creative using rolled-up paper and scotch tape as construction materials. Her "airplane" is now about 4 sq. feet and the envy of her brother.
With all the rain, exercise time moved indoors some days. I don't know which video this was, but we enjoyed Yoga with Cosmic Kids and the story of "Squish the fish" another day.
The "Pants on Fire" podcast is now our go-to podcast companion during afternoon snack time.
Thursday we broke out the bikes and Norah rode on her own for the first time. Friday morning she woke up asking to go biking, but the rain had other ideas. She finally got her wish after dinner, and was tearing down the hill at the end of our street. There have been lots of kids on bikes around the neighborhood this week.
Our saving grace, the daily schedule on a whiteboard. We started on Monday, and it worked so well that we decided to keep it going on the weekends. One day after lunch, Jackson walked over to the board, read the words "Clean-up" and started cleaning up without a word of parental input. That's what I call magic! 😃
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