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Quarantine Day 11: Getting into the routine of quarantine

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Monday. Week 2.

It started off great. The kids slept until 8:15 & 8:45. We had breakfast and Juliet had her first Zoom - conference call - virtual morning meeting with her teacher and classmates. It was only 10 minutes but I think she enjoyed it. This is going to be a recurring thing every morning at 9:30. Then we did morning yoga. We've almost exhausted the free yoga videos (that we can agree on) from Cosmic Yoga, so we signed up for their 14 day free trial through their app. If we stick to this yoga thing the next two weeks, I will gladly pay for this app. I can see doing this in the morning before the bus comes if/when we go back to school. This morning we did The Gruffalo yoga! We love this story and the yoga poses were great fun. Mom even participated this morning to start stretching out her muscles from our rigorous olympic games yesterday!

Juliet conference calling in to her morning meeting!
After yoga we did some math facts. Well Juliet did math facts and then phonics in the workbook Grammy got her. Naomi was doing her math facts in the dining room next to dad, and the puzzle and was distracted by both. After they got through some academic stuff, we drew pictures using our story cards. The kids each got a deck of cards to help tell stories for Hanukkah. We have been using the under water adventure ones because we can't seem to remember where the other deck is at the moment. The kids pick settings, characters and objects to tell a story, but we've been drawing a scene from the story using the cards. Today it was a struggle for Juliet, we had a bit of a melt down, because we were tired and hungry and this turns into stubborn...it wasn't fun.

Naomi and JP did an exercise routine in the basement after drawing. I think it was pretty hard because they both came upstairs looking exhausted and thirsty! We seemed to all feel better after having lunch. Naomi worked on some school work her teacher sent on google classroom today. She did all the reading and worked on a bunch of the math. Meanwhile, Juliet and I went up stairs to try to take a nap - which she desperately needed. The visiting nurse came 10 minutes into our nap, so I went down stairs to be seen by her and Juliet just couldn't sleep without me.  After the nurse left the kids and I played with legos to do today's lego challenge: build a rocket, which they were not super into. So we switched gears and did some watercolor painting. This was great. They were experimenting with blending the colors, masking off areas, using washes, using spongers. It was fun. I got to work on my 28 Day Challenge from the Brooklyn Art Library that my colleagues and I are doing. Today's was self portrait. I decided that I wanted to do something related to what I just went through health wise, as it has left physical and mental scars on me and who I am. It was therapeutic. I made 3 different versions before we ran out of paper. Yes. We ran out of watercolor paper. I might need to go to Michaels tomorrow morning to get some so that we can have paper to paint on for the next several weeks of the quarantine, especially now as Governor Baker mandated that all non essential stores close at noon tomorrow until April 6th!
Math Facts!

Phonics

Distracted!

Mom's Self Portrait for the 28 Day Challenge

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