Baby Henry day. She set up chairs and fake food for both of them, and he played along quite well. Also we watched The Price Is Right, which as I've previously noted is pretty great for thinking about math.
Duplos.
A much needed lesson in record science and etiquette, after I found her drawing on one with a pencil and then trying to erase it. Eek!
Watched a Sesame Street episode about school and graduating high school twice.
I read her Where Is the Green Sheep?
We went to Chipotle for dinner. We sat on the patio and she talked to every person and animal that came by.
On the way home she asked how people get better when they're sick, so I found a little cartoon on YouTube about the immune system. It was weird and confusing, so I'm going to look for something better, maybe at the library on Thursday.
I read her Doctor Meow's Big Emergency.
Unschooling myself and the 6-year-old
Showing posts with label records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label records. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Not such a great day for parent-child interactions, but I'm sure she did some interesting things today. Let me see...
She tried to put together one of her felt hand puppet kits. It was right before we were going to leave for church, so I told her I wouldn't help her. She made a valiant effort, but was ultimately frustrated because "I don't know how to read yet!"
She's been coloring inside the lines again. But again, mostly just in tiny patches, like this:
We read some signs at church. She can read "library", and we talked about why bathrooms are sometimes called "restrooms".
Put on a music record for a while.
Played with her Duplos.
Played some sort of game on the refrigerator with the animal magnets. I think maybe they were at a restaurant?
Splash pad with Norman.
I read her Otis and the Tornado.
She tried to put together one of her felt hand puppet kits. It was right before we were going to leave for church, so I told her I wouldn't help her. She made a valiant effort, but was ultimately frustrated because "I don't know how to read yet!"
She's been coloring inside the lines again. But again, mostly just in tiny patches, like this:
We read some signs at church. She can read "library", and we talked about why bathrooms are sometimes called "restrooms".
Put on a music record for a while.
Played with her Duplos.
Played some sort of game on the refrigerator with the animal magnets. I think maybe they were at a restaurant?
Splash pad with Norman.
I read her Otis and the Tornado.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
I woke up to the dulcet tones of "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo". (Norman was already up and about.) I was confused because I knew it had to be a record, but I thought if I had that song, it had to be on a 45, and I figured Lucy would not be able to put in the converter and switch it to 45rpm by herself. WRONG. I had showed her how to do it once, and now she can do it.
Found a detail-rich map of Sesame Street in our Old School Sesame Street DVD set. Spent a while looking at it and talking with me about all the details.
Read Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct to herself several times.
Read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day to herself.
We played waiter. She has a restaurant order pad. She had me take her order (PB&J and kombucha, which it turns out I was actually supposed to get for her). I played along and made the food for her and acted like a waiter. Then she wanted to play again after she finished eating, so I had her take my order -- fake sushi and fake chocolate milkshake. It was delicious. :-)
Watched a Charlie & Lola compilation. One episode was about getting a haircut, and another was about loose baby teeth. (We've been trying to prepare her for the reality of this bizarre phenomenon, so that's good.)
Painting with watercolors.
Read herself a Sesame Street book.
Played with her voice recorder.
Jumped on the exercise trampoline I got for her. (It lives outside unless the weather is bad.)
Really big lately on singing this one particular song with some manner of shaky instrument and her old broken microphone. At the top of her lungs, naturally. Sometimes she enlists me as a mic stand.
Norman read her I am Extremely Absolutely Boiling (Charlie & Lola).
Found a detail-rich map of Sesame Street in our Old School Sesame Street DVD set. Spent a while looking at it and talking with me about all the details.
Read Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct to herself several times.
Read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day to herself.
We played waiter. She has a restaurant order pad. She had me take her order (PB&J and kombucha, which it turns out I was actually supposed to get for her). I played along and made the food for her and acted like a waiter. Then she wanted to play again after she finished eating, so I had her take my order -- fake sushi and fake chocolate milkshake. It was delicious. :-)
Watched a Charlie & Lola compilation. One episode was about getting a haircut, and another was about loose baby teeth. (We've been trying to prepare her for the reality of this bizarre phenomenon, so that's good.)
Painting with watercolors.
Read herself a Sesame Street book.
Played with her voice recorder.
Jumped on the exercise trampoline I got for her. (It lives outside unless the weather is bad.)
Really big lately on singing this one particular song with some manner of shaky instrument and her old broken microphone. At the top of her lungs, naturally. Sometimes she enlists me as a mic stand.
Norman read her I am Extremely Absolutely Boiling (Charlie & Lola).
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Read her Charlie & Lola I am Extremely Absolutely Boiling.
She got out her dry erase workbooks and traced some of the letters. Then she wanted to write Norman a Valentine on the blank part. She wrote an "I", then she had me write a heart. (I drew a dotted heart for her to trace twice, but she got frustrated and had me do it instead.) I added "To: Norman" as requested. Then she filled in "YOU" and "LUCY". She figured out how to write "you" by looking at the generic plastic grocery bag she saw across the room. :-)
She read herself Mouse Paint.
Baby Henry came over. Lots of practice sharing and not grabbing and protecting people who are younger/smaller than we are. Watched The Muppets.
Listened to Bailey Goes Camping read-along book.
Listened to our Charlie Brown Christmas read-along record.
Spent quite a bit of time playing with Legos after I built one of the fireman set things for her. (She only has two small sets and a couple of extra minifigs.)
More Legos after dinner. Then she moved on to the Duplos.
I read her Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct.
She got out her dry erase workbooks and traced some of the letters. Then she wanted to write Norman a Valentine on the blank part. She wrote an "I", then she had me write a heart. (I drew a dotted heart for her to trace twice, but she got frustrated and had me do it instead.) I added "To: Norman" as requested. Then she filled in "YOU" and "LUCY". She figured out how to write "you" by looking at the generic plastic grocery bag she saw across the room. :-)
She read herself Mouse Paint.
Baby Henry came over. Lots of practice sharing and not grabbing and protecting people who are younger/smaller than we are. Watched The Muppets.
Listened to Bailey Goes Camping read-along book.
Listened to our Charlie Brown Christmas read-along record.
Spent quite a bit of time playing with Legos after I built one of the fireman set things for her. (She only has two small sets and a couple of extra minifigs.)
More Legos after dinner. Then she moved on to the Duplos.
I read her Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct.
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