Week 4, Day 18 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Last day of school until next Tuesday.  Not that anyone around here is counting. LOL. So as any good administrator would do, we are going to allow for an early release today.

Frankly, we are all counting down the days until we can get a break. I'm looking forward of running my own classes online and not worrying about trying to get through their work as well. Small victories.

Our four hours of Bible Time videos came to close today.  These were awesome. Couldn't have planned it any better either- ended with Easter and dying on the cross.  It's perfect timing.

We finished up the Math and Reading on Schoology that we needed to finish that was mandated . The writing prompts were cute and I shared with daddy that he has a lot of baseball planned for this spring break. Hope he's ready!

Finally, today I put on a video of Olivia reading her Junie B. book.  I think it will be adorable to look back someday and hear her reading.

Tonight we are going to do the Front Porch Project.  I'm setting up my tripod and shooting some photos. Since we won't have a post tomorrow about all the school activities, maybe I'll just post our FPP pictures 😀
 

Week 4, Day 17 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Halfway through our week! Tomorrow is the last day before Spring Break. Excited for a fun day packed full of some fun things that aren't mandated by the school!

Reading, Math, and Social Studies are things that need to be finished up for the week.  But as I said yesterday, Olivia's teacher sent some writing prompts, so we will be adding these to the daily schedule.  If I have any teacher friends who read this blog, let me know if I should be leaving the spelling mistakes go, or if I should be telling them to fix them?! 

Mixing up the cookies are for the Easter cut-out we make and the dough needs to chill overnight. So we just mixed today and put the dough in the fridge. Most likely will make them on Thursday. Stay tuned for the deliciousness. 

Since we've been homeschooling, we haven't been reading for 10 minutes whatever they want to read in the evenings. So I decided to tell them that this wonderful thing is now mandated too.  It's not really, but I miss them reading for fun. So we're bringing it back. I also made them watch one of my childhood favorites with Grover, "There is A Monster at the End of This Book." They liked it! 

So it's been so warm here the last few days. They've been begging to have a water balloon fight. So today was the third day of warm weather and it did hit 72 degrees, so I agreed to the water balloons.  Watch the video for the fun fight. The only thing I don't like about this is the clean up.  But I make them do the clean up, so it's not all bad.

Another fun thing we did was make bunnies out of toilet paper rolls. Grabbing the idea and tutorial from Pinterest, we had all the supplies on hand. So while I jumped on a phone call, they painted the tubes with washable paint. When I was back from the call, I helped them cut out the ears and feet, and they assembled. It wasn't a hard project at all and I'd highly recommend for those with younger kiddos.  With Easter coming up, they were excited to work on the craft and even more excited to display their work on the mantel afterward.

The final thing we did today was read the book about our bodies for Science. We covered the bones and muscles chapter today.  I had them take turns reading the pages. We talked about the extra facts. But their minds were blown today with the fact that if they laid down with their arms out and put something (expo markers in our case) and then laid between them, your 'wingspan' is almost exactly how tall you are. They were outdone.  They both did it and then had me do it to make sure it wasn't a fluke.  Then they called maw and told her that she and paw HAD to try it because it works! 🤣

Week 2, Day 7 of CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Schoology on iPads

Well here we go.  Tuesday and Thursdays are ROUGH for the Agozzino household.  I teach 3 classes online at ONU on these days:
9:30-10:45: PR Writing
12-1:15: Principles of Social Media
1:30-2:45: Digital Branding
Thursday is worse with the addition of 
6:30-9 p.m.: Capstone

My classes were highjacked

Kids kicked off the morning with their hot chocolate and apple cider watching videos assigned for their classes. To say we operate on hot mess express on these days is an understatement. Isaac told Maw today that all I do is yell at them when I'm online to be quiet.  #truth But you see at one point, they stole my computer and took over class while I pulled up Schoology on their iPads and got them into the right programs so they could work independently while I'm online. 

Momma needs a drink!

It's a rat race.  I love how people think this is all so neat and organized.  Come spend 2 hours here in the morning and you'll determine I'm a drill Sargent that belts out orders like "I love you but figure it out" and "I love you but come on" and "I love you but for the love, quit whining."   I guess I assume if I cushion all statements with I love you, it won't sound as harsh. 

I'm not exactly sure of the time I poured myself this frozen concoction, but I do guarantee it was much needed by that point. I *think* it was at least afternoon.  It's 5 o'clock somewhere right?

Declaring their BINGO row

Isaac's Groovy Ring Entry

Music BINGO... now this looked fun, but don't think it meant to do all in one sitting.  We should have broken this one down into a few days.  Live and learn peeps.  I have a video to add of one of the squares- Star Spangled Banner.  

Learning about teepees

We moved some things around and the worked on Groovy Art Rings today.  It's some art challenge for kiddos that the school put online for students to participate.  Isaac entry is his teepee drawing and I thought it looked pretty groovy, so there you go.  Olivia is going to work on her entry tomorrow. Speaking of teepee's, they also listen to a YouTube video of Native Americans and how they built teepee.  It was pretty interesting actually and Isaac told me all about how the sticks needed to be tied to sustain weather conditions- so bonus that he learned something. 

Our Bible read today

Moving on to Bible time. We read this book about Hannah today.  My mom got this series of books for Olivia to read about powerful women of the bible.  I think she is suppose to be reading them.  Since I haven't asked her to sit down with them, and they weren't as attractive as Junie B. Jones, I read it to both of them today.  What great books.  I'd HIGHLY recommend.  I don't think I'll have to ask Olivia to read the rest.  They're written for today and super relatable for children.  

Pringle Challenge Take 1

What is this Pringle Challenge?

And then we finished up the academic side of today with the Pringles Challenge. My beautiful fourth grade teaching friend Stacey sent me this idea. Here is what we learned.  I'm VERY cheap and don't buy brand names. Not all Pringles are made the same. The generic version are much flatter than name brand, thus our full can of Pringles generic version didn't work.  Our 10 chips of real Pringles weren't enough.  Thus I say, challenge take 1.  We'll get a full can and try again tomorrow.  

A little social "distance"

So we finished off today by the kiddos getting out for a bike ride while I ran. We headed to Jerm's mom's house which is 2.8 miles from our house so I had to run around the block to hit my 3 mile run today. Jeremy got home from work and just met us there with his truck to throw the bikes in the back and head back home.  We stopped by the car wash and Kewpee for my Strawberry Mt. Dew that I crave on the daily before pulling back in our driveway for the day.