End of Week 1 : All's well that ends well

Morning Numbers

Reece's Red Robot

We made it through the first week.  It was crazy, and stressful, but we made it.  We continue to tweak the idea of a schedule for everyone's sanity and we are still figuring out what works.  Kudos to those of you that have kids that don't need a schedule.  Mine need one or chaos erupts.

I am swamped with online grading from my not-so PT job.  Had a emergency response meeting online with my FT job this morning.  Now I have to start getting things in place for that, too. 

On a mission to map the plants

 I am mostly documenting this now because I think the kids are too young to remember a lot of it when they are older.  This is a defining moment in our history ...not just "no school."  The no school part is really nothing compared to what is going on outside our little 5 acres on the hill.  We are trying to do academic time each day because we honestly don't know what is going to happen next.

We are keeping the news off when the kids are around for the most part.  We are hearing scary messages that no 9-11 year old can understand or have to deal with.  If things don't get under control soon there is a high likelihood they are going to lose people they love to this - and our family circle is really small.  It s really scary.

So today's run down - as we try and let kids be kids:

- virtual field trip to Yellowstone - this kept them occupied for about 90 minutes.  They each picked something they wanted to learn about and explored the Yellowstone site.  I asked them to make a PPT of the interesting things they learned just to document the activity.  
- reading (this happens all the time anyway)
- Grayson tried out  social skills course online with a SLP and helped make and serve lunch
- built a one color challenge LEGO creation
- Gabe and Reece took photos of things that are currently flowering in the yard, along with map, and they are going to identify them in a collaborative Google Doc next week as a science/writing project
- played baseball with a bunch of hardened old oranges I found hiding in a box
- lots of outside time (it was really warm today)
- mowed the grass
- a little math on Khan Academy

Not all rainbows...Gabe got in trouble for hurting Reece.  Reece whined about the TV being off limits all day.  Grayson won the day. 

Early evening numbers