Week 7, Day 30 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Birthday-eve. We are trying to prep today and finish all schooling so we don’t have to do too much tomorrow and instead celebrate our wonderful 8-year-old. We even have planned in the birthday cake-run to Rachel’s Cakes in Anna into the schedule.

Kicking off today, it’s Spirit Day in #InThisTogetherOhio. I made the kiddos get on clothes and Elida spirit gear at that! A picture from our front porch of them trying to get in the spirit on this very dreary Thursday.

We plowed through the homework today too.  Olivia had a big day as she moved on from subtraction on XtraMath. She is so very excited to have this accomplished before she turns 8.  I printed out her certificate and tried to make a super big deal like they would at school.  I don’t want her to not be as recognized as she would if school was still in session.

 

Most of the pictures from today are the kiddos on iPads taking tests, so that didn’t make for great and exciting pictures. I do have a pic of the disaster (Isaac’s vocab word this week) on my kitchen table. This evening we got yarn elephant craft project from our dear friends the Zigenbusch family. Of course, she’ll stay up until this project is complete. Last night she went to bed a shade after 2 a.m. She has too much of our night owl tendencies in her.  She’ll sleep in half the morning, and I’m good with that! I will do the same. 

The last picture today is from tonight when they were just snuggled up watch cartoons on Isaac's iPad. Does any other Momma's heart melt when you catch an impromptu snuggled up session in place with your kiddos?  This momma's heart does, so grabbed my phone quick to snap.  Although they yell and scream at each other, there are moments of love. 

Week 7, Day 29 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

I have one VERY excited little girl for Friday.  Not because it’s Friday, but because it’s someone’s birthday! We are trying to work ahead on our projects so we don’t have to do school on Friday.  We are also still participating in #InThisTogetherOhio week and today was hero day. Keeping this in mind, we kicked off our day with our typical reading and math. Olivia nailed her spelling test at 100% and went ahead and took her vocabulary test as well.  Isaac still missed 3 on his practice test, so we’ll practice one more time tomorrow until we take the test. But his vocabulary test he was confident he’d do great so we took that today.  100% baby. 

 

Bible time included the second half of Moses and the 10 commandments. They watched it while I sat online watching final presentation for my IMC class. I have one more online class to sit through on Friday and then just finals left. Not that I’m counting down or anything.

The other big thing we needed to complete was the art project. If you remember we attempted this last week and we didn’t shade or do half the project according to the rubric because they did it while I was teaching.  So this time, I was the teacher.  There were so many steps.  We worked on this for at LEAST 2-2.5 hours. I LOVE the final project, but gee wiz, that was too much.  And I’m not dragging this stuff out a third time, so we are getting this done.

 

In our Ohio spirit week, today is Hero Day.  In honor of the day, we watched Big Hero 6 and I asked the kids to pick their hero.  Isaac said Paw was his hero since he jumped out of planes for the Army.  Olivia picked mom and dad (she’s sucking up good for her birthday!). I took them Walgreens (I needed to pick up a photo) and Olivia spent her own $ to buy us a gift.  Isaac said he wanted to get Paw Sugar Cream Pie from Kewpee. While we were there, he said he needed to grab Maw a strawberry Mt. Dew too since he was adding her to the list since Olivia had two.  So we picked up the goodies and went to Maws to drop off our goodies.  Happy #InThisTogetherOhio day to all our Heroes.

The last thing Olivia worked on is her fun goodies that the Franley family sent to Miss Olivia for her birthday.  It's 10:40 p.m. and she just opened them at 8. She's already completed on frog keychain and now is working on sewing up some mini animals next.  Thanks so very much for you all thinking of her during this quarantine birthday.  It's meant so much to her to know that you are thinking of her. So excited for Friday! 

Week 7, Day 28 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Hello #InThisTogetherOhio spirit week. We are pumped to participate. Although it said, plant your garden for today…come on this is Ohio and it WILL frost at least one more time.  I’m not planting my $ flowers for them to die.  But, we will take a field trip to Amherst and buy our herbs (which Olivia kept calling them Herb with the H sound), veggies, and flowers.

But before our field trip, we must get our schoolwork done.  On the docket today is always Math and Reading.  It takes us most the morning to complete these two subjects. Isaac continues to work on fractions, but Olivia has moved onto time.  I sent this one fraction to the wonderful Math teacher who is annoyed by the online program that attempts to trick the kids.  I thought you had to put something in that last line when Isaac came to me and said, this doesn’t make any sense.  Nope, it doesn’t. There isn’t an equivalent.  I write the teacher to let her know we are leaving it blank.  She said that’s right and the program is trying to ‘trick’ the kids and throw them off.  Are you kidding me?  Ugh.

Olivia is working with time.  I thought she would nail this like everything else academic-wise she does, but apparently she operates on her mother’s time that is not entirely efficient or correct.  Therefore, she’s requiring a little bit more attention with this subject.

I have been saving our writing prompt for today!  It reads, “Imagine you had your very own garden. What would you grow?”  I made them complete these before we headed out to Amherst.  They I let them pick a few of the things they wanted to grow in their garden.  How fun!

Like I said yesterday in my blog post, we needed to move the recycle day to today. We piled the back of the truck with our cans to take in. The kids earned $8 and they were thrilled. They certainly won’t get rich off the endeavor, but they’re helping out and they think they’re rich!

Amherst didn’t disappoint.  I love this place. It was the first time I’ve taken the kids with me. Because I typically get lost here for HOURS, I’d rather go by myself. But when the hours are during the day and your partner is an essential employee, you take the kids. They wore their masks and loved this place as much as I do. I let them pick some veggies and herbs to grow, and we spent about 1.5 hours roaming through each of the 22 rows.  We won’t plant yet, but we are excited to get started.

Week 7, Day 28 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Here we are on WEEK 7 😳Who said this could go on for the rest of school?!  I came home. Yep, my sabbatical weekend was just what Jeremy ordered. LOL.  It was what I call a power weekend.  Where you rip off at least 15 post-it-notes (Ashley knows what I'm talking about!) and you are killing it in the productivity department.  Not only that, I got to sleep in and not feel guilty. I got to day-drink. 🍹 I got to go run for miles in decent weather.  I got my 🧠 brain back and I'm ready to move forward and power through these last few weeks at ONU and then this homeschooling thing should be fun!

Today was filled with half school and half home stuff.  I really needed to run some errands, so the recycle cans and bank made the list. Turns out, old aluminum cans stink in the car, so that got moved to tomorrow.  Transferring money from bank to bank is a big pain too.  Good news is one of the banks in Delphos and so is the Creamery.  Double win.  The Creamery is the ice cream place in Delphos.  We came home with a 1/2 gallon of strawberry dole.  Totally worth the trip. 

Bible time today was a two-part series.  You can see they were watching it in the house on the big screen. I love that we can play YouTube through the television. That's amazing and wonderful.  Now if I could just get the internet as a whole up there!

Isaac is still working with fractions.  I won't let him hit submit anymore without checking his work with this magnets.  Is 4/6 = 2/3? Check it first with the magnets.  I am hoping if he can visual see it, it will sink it even longer. 


The writing prompt today had Olivia writing poems. She loves to write, so even though the writing prompts aren't graded, we still do them every day and sometimes submit them to her teacher. 

Overall today was a pretty good day.  We are looking more into the campaign for Ohio to start tomorrow.  Today was PJ day all day, which is us pretty much every. single. day. 

The video today is Olivia playing with her new Easter gift that finally arrived.  A balance beam to go with her air track.  She's in her little tumbling heaven.  Thinking we might be investing in some parallel bars next.  😳