Watched Curious George.
Watched Curious George while reading an entire book about plants? (She said she read the whole thing and this is entirely possible and she kept throwing random plant facts at me including something about ant/tree symbiosis?) She does that sometimes -- like she needs the noise to help her concentrate on the book or something. I understand.
Played outside.
Watched Blue's Clues movie. Was playing on her little piano keyboard along with them (there's a whole long sequence where G-Clef-Ray-Charles explains music).
Played outside.
Spent like 2 hours playing Legos and there was lots of talk of weapons and battles and emergency evacuations.
Children's museum. Cleaned up after other people in the supermarket section, then drew a picture about that. Played in the water table room. Found some pretend horses and fed them fake apples?
Watched Phineas and Ferb.
Drew a blueprint? For something. But like, she used a blue colored pencil.
Unschooling myself and the 6-year-old
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Friday, June 5, 2015
Friday, June 5, 2015
Watched Pokemon
Played several games on the PBSkids website -- mostly Peg+Cat math games, mostly about fractions.
Watched a bunch of WordGirl.
Played Pokemon Crystal on Norman's computer. Decided to stop playing before she had a meltdown (progress!).
Legos/Duplos.
But like so much WordGirl. It was a WordGirl kinda day, apparently.
Oh, and then she was talking about a character from one of her Disney Fairies comic books that sounded like she was saying "Chole" so I asked her to spell it, so she went and got the book and showed me that it was actually "Chloe". So I asked if she wanted to know how it's pronounced, and she did. And oh boy do I remember pronouncing names wrong for the longest time as a young precocious reader myself.
Played several games on the PBSkids website -- mostly Peg+Cat math games, mostly about fractions.
Watched a bunch of WordGirl.
Played Pokemon Crystal on Norman's computer. Decided to stop playing before she had a meltdown (progress!).
Legos/Duplos.
But like so much WordGirl. It was a WordGirl kinda day, apparently.
Oh, and then she was talking about a character from one of her Disney Fairies comic books that sounded like she was saying "Chole" so I asked her to spell it, so she went and got the book and showed me that it was actually "Chloe". So I asked if she wanted to know how it's pronounced, and she did. And oh boy do I remember pronouncing names wrong for the longest time as a young precocious reader myself.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Watched Lego Friends while playing with her Friends Legos. (The one where they invent something to prevent dolphin bycatch and then go on a yacht cruise is her favorite.)
Helped me tie dye? Okay, no, I didn't let her use the dyes, but a few weeks ago at Target she picked out which things she wanted dyed, and today she told me what design she wanted and which colors.
Played with her learning clock a little.
Played with her tape measure a bunch.
Decided that she needed to search for something she lost under the couch a long time ago, so this is a the getup she came up with for that mission:
(LOL like possibly we should clean more. In fact this prompted Norman to take the couch apart and vacuum everything.)
She worked on this craft set that I bought at the thrift store a while back. She recognized and could name the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower.
Watched the Scrambled States of America Scholastic DVD she got from the library (twice -- once while reading along with the book).
Played in the sprinkler.
We watched several YouTube videos, including watching the old Disney short cartoon In the Bag, which of course she loved.
Found the mailing address of the publishing company that makes the Disney Fairies graphic novels she's been reading, so she decided she wanted to write them a letter telling them that she likes the books. This turned into a whole ordeal, but before she threw a fit and gave up because it wasn't perfect, she did some writing.
She has these pads of sticky notes that say "Lucy" on them, so she took several sheets and wrote "Inn" after the "Lucy" and drew little pictures of what it's going to look like at her hotel.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Watched Pokemon
Colored with gel pens. Like a lot. Very studiously.
Asked about how "exactly" locks work, so we watched some YouTube videos that explain it.
Went to the library. Signed up for Summer Reading. Kind of sat right down with a new Disney Fairies comic before I interrupted to ask about another book.
Legos.
Watched Phineas and Ferb.
Colored with gel pens. Like a lot. Very studiously.
Asked about how "exactly" locks work, so we watched some YouTube videos that explain it.
Went to the library. Signed up for Summer Reading. Kind of sat right down with a new Disney Fairies comic before I interrupted to ask about another book.
Legos.
Watched Phineas and Ferb.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Tuesday, May 2, 2015
Watched Pokemon.
Came with me to Bible study. Colored with her gel pens the whole time.
We made some more SWAPS:
Perler beads:
And puzzle piece monsters that I neglected to take a photo of.
She spent a lot of time in the playroom with her tiny bits... I don't know what to call them. She has a jar of miniature Christmas ornaments, decorative buttons, etc, etc. Sometimes she sorts them or plays with them like dolls.
She got out her Girl Scout book and read two of the flower friends stories aloud to me while I made dinner, and then also asked me the discussion questions.
She dressed up like a "scientist" (rain coat, safety goggles, magnifying glass, paper, and pen) and went outside. She came back in saying she had "captured some ants successfully", and then later that she had gathered some grass seeds (which she has been very interested in for the last couple weeks).
Came with me to Bible study. Colored with her gel pens the whole time.
We made some more SWAPS:
Perler beads:
And puzzle piece monsters that I neglected to take a photo of.
And she also made a puzzle (I bought a bunch of blank ones for various projects).
She spent a lot of time in the playroom with her tiny bits... I don't know what to call them. She has a jar of miniature Christmas ornaments, decorative buttons, etc, etc. Sometimes she sorts them or plays with them like dolls.
She got out her Girl Scout book and read two of the flower friends stories aloud to me while I made dinner, and then also asked me the discussion questions.
She dressed up like a "scientist" (rain coat, safety goggles, magnifying glass, paper, and pen) and went outside. She came back in saying she had "captured some ants successfully", and then later that she had gathered some grass seeds (which she has been very interested in for the last couple weeks).
Monday, June 1, 2015
Monday, June 1, 2015
Watched Pokemon.
Decided that today was our wall calendar's birthday (after she switched the month over because she was the first person to think of it). She made it a "cake" (play pizza) with a "candle" (palm cross that she's been hoarding in her playroom), brought out balloons left over from her own birthday party, we sang Happy Birthday to it, she gave it a present and a card.... It made no sense, but it was delightful.
Decided that she would start her own church. She gathered a sword she made out of cardboard yesterday at the children's museum (it looks like a cross), our prayer book, the tiny mortar I let her use to mash up "herbs" sometimes (for the chalice), and a scented candle. She said that she is going to the priest, so she got a (red) blanket off her bed for her robes. She tried to get Norman and me to volunteer to be acolytes. She said that she still needed some more robes for all the different colors of the church seasons. And I mentioned that she might also want some training. LOL So interesting to see what she thinks of as things that are necessary for church -- they're quite different from what I would have gathered at her age.
We went grocery shopping. She found the sign (again) at one of the stores that explains how to use a fire extinguisher and read it, but got a little mixed up because the first letter of each word was much bigger than the others (so that it makes an acrostic). So she thought the last one said "weep side to side" and we got a big laugh out of the thought of someone crying back and forth during a fire!
We made the Jiffy Pop that I bought a few weeks ago after they made Jiffy Pop SWAPS at Girl Scouts.
Later she was talking about the calendar's birthday some more, and she said that she was going to make it something with mushrooms because mushrooms smell like months to it. So I joked that the calendar has synesthesia, so then I had to explain what synesthesia is.
Had a "Pokemon battle" with Norman (this is where they have a fight with stuffed animals while calling out Pokemon moves).
Then right before bed Norman had occasion to explain to her what a surrogate mother is.
Decided that today was our wall calendar's birthday (after she switched the month over because she was the first person to think of it). She made it a "cake" (play pizza) with a "candle" (palm cross that she's been hoarding in her playroom), brought out balloons left over from her own birthday party, we sang Happy Birthday to it, she gave it a present and a card.... It made no sense, but it was delightful.
Decided that she would start her own church. She gathered a sword she made out of cardboard yesterday at the children's museum (it looks like a cross), our prayer book, the tiny mortar I let her use to mash up "herbs" sometimes (for the chalice), and a scented candle. She said that she is going to the priest, so she got a (red) blanket off her bed for her robes. She tried to get Norman and me to volunteer to be acolytes. She said that she still needed some more robes for all the different colors of the church seasons. And I mentioned that she might also want some training. LOL So interesting to see what she thinks of as things that are necessary for church -- they're quite different from what I would have gathered at her age.
We went grocery shopping. She found the sign (again) at one of the stores that explains how to use a fire extinguisher and read it, but got a little mixed up because the first letter of each word was much bigger than the others (so that it makes an acrostic). So she thought the last one said "weep side to side" and we got a big laugh out of the thought of someone crying back and forth during a fire!
We made the Jiffy Pop that I bought a few weeks ago after they made Jiffy Pop SWAPS at Girl Scouts.
Later she was talking about the calendar's birthday some more, and she said that she was going to make it something with mushrooms because mushrooms smell like months to it. So I joked that the calendar has synesthesia, so then I had to explain what synesthesia is.
Had a "Pokemon battle" with Norman (this is where they have a fight with stuffed animals while calling out Pokemon moves).
Then right before bed Norman had occasion to explain to her what a surrogate mother is.
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