Week 890.000,000

We learned a week ago Friday that we had been in "close" (outdoor, masked and mostly 6 feet away) contact with a friend of A's who tested positive for Covid.  While we weren't required to stay home from school this week, Brian and I felt it was the responsible thing to do.  As LT said, "we are a known risk, so why would we go to school?" And so, home learning/remote learning began again.  I planned out a whole week worth of activities for B and the big guys did online school.  While unexpected and not perfect, we all enjoyed a more low key, at home week.  We went to the mountains so that our housekeeper could clean our house (such a luxury!)

Watching Biden and Kamala speak was a big hit!

Monday we did mazes, manipulatives and math.  

Tuesday was a variety of activities, but matching upper and lower case letters on a spider web was a big hit. 

And Lexi got to go to the mountains for the first time.  We realized how much of the Bernese Mountain dog is in her.  This girl loves the snow!

And she's getting big so fast, but we can all still carry her.

We focused on the letter G this week and made imprints of G's before just playing with the dinos in mad matter.

Every morning he asks, "what are my activities today?".  Thursday he put these on and said, "I need these for school today".

We do a ton of drawing, some guided and some free.  He drew pictures of birds and flowers that we found on our walks.   We counted all the G's we could find on license plates around our house also.  Any reason to get outside and walk for school.

And, as is often the case, I don't even know what was going on here.

One morning B put on all my jewelry to get ready for school and said, "when you plan out my activities, make sure it includes jewelry."  So we made cheerio necklaces.

Fizzy ice cubes were a big hit for science.

LT made an alter for Dia De Los Muertes.

Friday was "jammie and movie" day for Ads at school.  He was done by 11 so we took advantage of the nice weather and scootered down to the park (wearing jammies of course).  B announced it was jammie and movie day for him too.  He and I snuggled on the couch and watched Ferdinand.  

And Lexi gets her food delivered by Chewy.  She was pretty excited when this box arrived.

I tell B that it has to be 7 AM and I have to have coffee before he can ask for breakfast.  Today he just took it upon himself and got everything on his own.

And when Grandma found out we were quarantined, she dropped off a little gift for each kid for each day this week (super small stuff like hot chocolate and other small things she already had in her house).  She left the labeled organized bags on the porch so as not to come in contact with us.  This puzzle for B was a hit.