Quarantine Day 43: Mandatory Alone Time, Ninja Warrior Course & Game Night

Travel Poster Example I made for my students.

TGIF! Today we had more ninja activities in the basement. The only thing we didn't get to yesterday was the ninja warrior obstacle course. So after breakfast and classwork we headed down the basement for the course. I set up the course and had them run through it a few times before timing them. But as they were running through it the third time, they got distracted and played on the swings and balance beam.

After ninja time we had lunch and then everyone had to go into their room for some alone time for an hour. We've been spending so much time together and the girls are at each other's throats the last few days. So we are instituting an hour of alone time everyday after lunch! We'll see how long this lasts.

I did a bunch of work for school in my hour of alone time, JP did laundry and the girls played their own room. Then they played together for a bit and after moved to watch Naomi play Nintendo. Juliet fell asleep on the couch watching her play.

JP made dinner while I finished up some grading and after dinner we had a family game night (see poster above!) and played Forbidden Island and we all lost! The girls enjoyed though and I'm sure we'll be playing again tomorrow.

As I didn't take any pictures today because it was basically a 'normal' day. I'm putting in this photo of Baba from yesterday in his Ninja outfit that I forgot to include in yesterday's blog post!

Baba's ninja day outfit! Thanks for participating!

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