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Quarantine Day 18: Zoom Classes, Math Lessons (on & off line) & Virtual Play Dates

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Monday. We are kickin' off Week 3 of quarantine.

Zoom class meeting!
A quick look at this Time Square live cam, (Thanks Dad for the link) shows us just how serious this is with eerily empty streets of Time Square in NYC.

Today Naomi's teacher set up a google zoom for her class. It was quite awesome listening in. The teacher spoke in Spanish the whole time and Naomi responded in Spanish. She has been in Spanish Immersion since September but we don't typically get to see her 'in action' speaking or interacting in Spanish with her teacher & classmates. This is something that her teacher is going to do three times a week. I'm excited about this because as good a teacher I may be, I am not fluent in Spanish! So we'll continue to Zoom and look for more of the Spanish readings that Sra. Migos posts on her google classroom. After her meeting Juliet had her morning meeting on Zoom! The kids are going to be experts on Zoom & video chats before graduating elementary school!

Radish Update!
We still are sticking with Yoga and walking Pip and checking our plants each day. This day was no different, we just did all this after our morning Zoom meetings. It was cloudy & had just stopped raining when we went outside this morning. Naomi went to check on the plants and saw that there was a bug infestation in the cold frame!! We walked Pip and then went in and did a little research to see what kinds of bugs they could be and what we can do about it. We think they are aphids and so the treatment we found was to spray them with soapy water. Hopefully this will do the trick!

Once the bugs were taken care of, Naomi worked on math lessons on her choice chart. And Juliet and I played zingo math for a while then we did some phonics with word rods. After doing some academics for a few hours, we had lunch. JP took his lunch break to do a workout in the basement. The kids have been doing this with them, however, today they were excited about the thought of it, but when they got to it in the basement, they wanted to do other things. This lead to a few arguments and one meltdown. But it seemed to then work itself out and after the 'workout' time everyone was hungry for lunch.

Bug infestation!
Today while they ate lunch, the girls had a FaceTime virtual play date with Ava. Naomi and Ava played Dominion online for upwards of 3 hours.  I think we created some monsters! While Naomi played Dominion Juliet went and played battleship with JP, rested with mom for a bit snuggling in bed, read books and then she too had a virtual play date. Juliet and her play date played pretty much as if they were in the same room. They played stuffies, legos, and games together!

The evening ended with several chapters of 'Chamber of Secrets' read out loud by Dad!






Math practice

Virtual play date with Ava & Dominion

Multitasking: Working and Battleshipping

Virtual playdate with Aowyn playing Sturdy Birdy.

Tonights MCU movie: Dr. Strange

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