We continued our space study into this week-a lot more relaxed too.
They made comets with glitter and I think they would use glitter every day if they were allowed.
On Monday we got totally side-tracked (or maybe were put on the right track) with YouTube videos about the International Space Station. The boys loved seeing inside and obviously the floating of everything and flying around was amazing to them. Then suddenly Cedrik disappeared and returned with his helmet and jacket. He was ready to be an astronaut. Freddie followed suit and we converted their room into a rocket (the closet) and made the bunk beds the ISS. The rest of the morning they ran around the house turning lights on and off-beeping when the electric had gone out and running back to the ISS to fix it.
We studied the moon and learned that it doesn't make its own light. They used oreos to make the different moon shapes. This has had them turning all of their food into moons.
On Friday they went to the planetarium with Jordan. They had a "man-date," Cedrik called it. There were a couple of other kids but according to Jordan, Cedrik answered most questions that the lady asked and got most of them right! Jordan was surprised that he remembered so much-even after she rotated the sky. I am surprised he spoke up. A boy at the beginning proudly told the lady which school he went to. Cedrik asked throughout the show if he could tell her that he did school at home-Jordan told him he could when it was over. So, when it ended, he went up to her and proudly told her he learned everything in his school at home. :) This is one of those moments I will remember and I hope he continues to be happy to do school at home. He said he was happy he knew what she was talking about. :)
I took Jordan's advice and stated doing their "core" things after Eloise was in bed-and one at a time. Freddie thrives with one on one attention. His colors finally came together this week-I did relate it to food and I think that helped. Cedrik is doing so well writing and he can identify almost all of the alphabet phonetically-most of the rest of the letters coming together this week. Freddie surprised me by drawing a triangle, without promting, and it was so good! He definitely got the artistic talent Jordan has.
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