Today was National Parks theme day. The kids got up and did their morning meetings with their teachers on Zoom. Then they did cosmic yoga about a fox. I found a fun skill in Alexa the night before called 'Animal Exercise' where you have to move like that animal. It was quite funny and fun. They started off wiggling like ladybugs and standing like flamingos and then were running like cheetahs and hopping like frogs! In all they moved like 26 animals today!
After they were warmed up and had their blood pumping, we headed over to check out some National parks. First up was Kenai Fjord National Park. This park is located in Alaska and the kids learned about glaciers and glacial melt, crevasses and icebergs. They got to go along the park with a Ranger and learn all about the land. Each park that we visited had something similar - a ranger that took you through the park with areas to click for more content, you tube videos or interactive bits, and the kids could navigate around 360 degrees. This was all done through google earth. Each kid kept a field notebook and made notes and drawings about each park. The other parks we visited were Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii, Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, Bryce Canyon in Utah and Dry Tortuga off the coast of Key West Florida. Exploring each park took all morning! Each of these 5 parks are vastly different and it was really fun to check out the different landscapes! They especially liked the lava flowing from the volcanoes in Hawaii, learning about the glacial melt and learning about bats and the interactive echo location in the Carlsbad Caverns.
After lunch we opened up the USA table cloth that I got and we found where we lived and colored it in. Oh it was a coloring table cloth! Then we went and found where Kenai Fjord was. Naomi colored in Alaska. Juliet colored in Florida where Mickey Mouse lives and where Dry Tortuga National Park is located. We found where the other three parks were located and then explored the map more locating where Uncle Dave & Alex live and where Uncle Matt and Auntie Candice live. The girls colored in some fun extras like whales breaching in the Gulf of Mexico as well as Elsa freezing some of the Gulf. This is a huge coloring area, so we'll continue to color it in for the next few weeks! Good thing we've got time on our hands to do it!!! Oh an another good thing is that these markers are washable so we can wash the table cloth and do it again in the future!!After lots of learning and concentrating the girls needed a break, so they went and played in the basement for a bit and then watched a few Sesame Street videos I found on you tube that they paired up with National Park Rangers and learned about two other National Parks!
Now there were more plans of things to do related to geography and National Parks, however, Mom needed a rest and then had to hop on the computer to speak with a colleague about work as I'm going back on Monday! So the kids watched a few more Sesame Street episodes than planned....Meanwhile Dad went out to BJ's and Roche Brothers to stock up on groceries for the next two to three weeks because our Crescent Ridge delivery did not come this week due to our Milk Man being in contact with someone with COVID! 3 hours and many hundreds of dollars later, JP got home and we went into sterilization mode. We had prepped the kitchen before he left but then made a system of cleaning the food that we could, getting rid of any extra packaging we could and then cleaning off any packaging we had to keep. This took an hour and a half to do. By the time we were done it was after 7 and we hadn't eaten dinner! So I whipped up some breakfast for dinner - bagels and eggs and orange slices and all parties were happy and satisfied after!
As this seems to be the time that the virus is ramping up in Mass, there are many videos going around about how to make homemade face masks. My mom found one that uses a yarmulke or kippah. I found a video that shows you how to make one with a t-shirt. So of course this evening, after the kids got into their pajamas and brushed their teeth we had to try it. And it worked great! Just not sure how protective a t-shirt is...now that the kid were all wound up because they were of course Ninja's with their new face masks, it was time to get them to go to bed!
TGIF tomorrow! Like it matters at our crazy house... all the days are blurring together!
Oh MCU movie tonight: Spiderman
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