Today we gave Daddy the car, which means we are hanging out at home for the day. I actually love these forced days of in-home confinement. Yes, sometimes they are tiring when Levi is having a fussy or homesick day (though I'm still glad I'm the one to help him through those), but often times they are our happiest days. I think, though we both love learning about new places and meeting new people, at the core Levi is a homebody just like me. It's how we refuel our introvert selves and get ready for our adventures. Plus, Levi just really loves a day of playing (which I know is really a full day of learning).
So, here is what our day looked like during one morning of a stay-at-home day:
- Levi cracked his own eggs for his breakfast (one of his favorite activities)
- Took a look at Amazon River Dolphins as part of our dolphin week (a subject chosen by Levi)
- Read aloud from Kipling's Just So Stories, "How the Leopard Got its Spots"
- Read a new book on octopi
- Read through a story he had made up the day before, which we typed out to make into a book.
- Created a town and track with huge lines of traffic
- Played with 1000 and 100 Montessori blocks
- Watered our plants and observed how they are doing. Turned our seedlings to see if they change position and reach back towards the sun.
- Did our calendar activities and weather graphing chart
- Did our quick "calendar connections" for the day. Today we learned about Estuaries.
- Mini piano lesson writing the names on keys of a keyboard and then checked to see if notes of the same name sound the same. (Also sang into the "mic" a bit for good measure.)
- Learning pre-fractions with Montessori pouring water activities
- Then, just some splashing and pouring for fun
- Road his balance bike
- Took school outside and did puzzles of: South America, North America, Europe, Asia/Oceania, The United States, The World, and Africa
- Read lots and lots and lots of books, inside and out
- Observed any changes in the bush we chose to watch daily during the spring
- Put all lower case alphabet letters in order with our moveable alphabet
- Played super heroes with a homemade cape
- Threw balls for the dogs
- Levi washed the wheels on his big car and tricycle
- Took all his little toy cars outside and made "lines of traffic" out there, too
- Observed some bees and bugs
- Had a picnic, twice
- Listened to some Gershwin as our composer of the month
And the afternoon….
- Chatted and played with the neighbors
- Rode the bike some more
- Watched and danced to an Amharic music video and also watched a video practicing our Amharic alphabet/vocab
- Made a road for toy cars using painter's tape on our outdoor rug
- Blew a lot of bubbles
- Did some shapes stencils and then he spontaneously wrote his name
- Showed Daddy the Amazon River Dolphins we learned about and learned about estuaries again.
- Worked on the South America puzzle with Daddy while Mommy cooked dinner
- Ate beans, sausage and spinach for so long that we read two more of the Just So Stories after Mommy and Daddy finished their dinners.
- Made a "miss you!" video to send to one of Levi's best buddy back home.
- General tickles and silliness before heading off to bed.
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