Dear Kiddos,
We had a fairly exciting past week. Hannah, you had a visit from the tooth fairy recently. Now you are mithing your top two teeth. Your smile is extra cute right now and I just can't get over how cute this is. Did I mention, this is cute?
I asked you guys what you wanted to learn about next, and we settled on Science, my favorite. I found a good STEM book from Costco and I've been using it for mini-lessons.
Monday: Solar Heaters.
We have a house in the neighborhood that uses solar heaters to heat the water in their pool. We talked about how those mechanisms work (compared to the water heater at our house). And then we did an experiment to see whether water over dark paper or light paper would get hotter in the sun and also whether a cover would make a difference.
I had you guys make a hypothesis and then we completed the experiment outside.
Tuesday: Princess Day
Nathan, you got a chance to go to a skateboarding clinic put on by a big kid in our neighborhood. That was for 2 hours in the morning. You were completely sweaty when I picked you up and were extremely excited about the new tricks that you had learned. You can now do an Ollie and some other tricks, which I don't know the name of.
Hannah, you have been requesting to study princesses for awhile now, so while Nathan was at the skateboarding clinic, we had a princess day. We started the morning off with a dragon hunt. We found fairy houses and met evil Chinese witches along the way. I taught you guys some spells to fight them off and we collected random magical items on our epic adventure.
We stopped by a troll bridge and turned him to his kind side by giving him some yellow magical flowers.
When we climbed up to the top of a mountain, we knew that the magical dragons (who were once princes) were close. We captured them with Pokeballs and brought them home.
After bringing them home, it was time to pick up Nathan and when we all got back home, we made a magic potion to turn all the dragons back in to princes. Hannah was able to read all the ingredients that we needed for the potion.
It worked! We successfully turned all the princes back to their regular selves and saved the day.
With the leftover potion, you all wanted to mix them together to see what would happen. Surprise Surprise...it was just a mess.
We worked on some princess spelling with Hannah
And later had a fancy royal tea party.
Wednesday: Polymers
In the morning, we got out and skated at the school courts for a few hours. It was pretty nice so we stayed outside for a few hours.
At some point, Hailey, you even agreed to follow Nathan around as he explored and looked for cool things on the school field. Apparently there's a hidden something that's not there anymore.
We made a batch of granola bars before lunch. The girls made chocolate cranberry ones.
Nathan, you stuck with your tried and true, chocolate mint, this time, you put in freshly crushed mint leaves, which turned out delicious!
In the afternoon we talked about what polymers (plastics) are and even made an edible version (cheese).
I was going to have you guys find different types of plastics and sort them based on their numbers, but I could tell you guys just wanted to play, and I wanted some time to myself, so we skipped it.
In the evening, we felt that Nathan, you were ready for the full version of Settlers of Catan. You did super well and I think this is now your new favorite game. You don't know how happy this makes me!
Thursday: Gears
Thursday was one of those days we just stayed at home all day. We had a lesson about gears. At first, you guys were like, "This is boring! I don't want to just spin wheels!" But when things started to act different that what you would've expected, you were hooked.
We also made some coconut milk chocolate ice cream. Hailey's request and we added in some oreos and mini M & M's. Now we have an appealing contender that can actually stand up to Blue Bell.
Friday: Nature Walk
On Friday morning, we decided to take Nathan on the same hike that we went on Tuesday. We are so fortunate to have these amazing trails right in our backyard. We saw a little lone heron by the lake.
We stopped to throw some rocks in the water and then were joined by another neighbor. I recently read about this deadly amoeba that lives in stagnant water...great, along with those killer hornets, I'm not surprised. Anyways, with that in the back of my mind, I made sure you guys didn't get wet. 2020 really is such a crazy year!
I'm glad our neighbor joined us because we don't get to see them often (now that school is out and we've been social distancing) and then they showed us where a cave was! It was so cool that we decided that we were going to bring Daddy back over this weekend.
I snapped this picture while you all were just playing so well together. Most of the time, you guys get along pretty well. But when you don't, it's vicious!
I snapped this picture, because Hailey, you seem to be the only one in the family who can work this vacuum sealer correctly. It seems like you have the magic touch.
On Saturday, we decided to take Daddy on the same trails that we went on to show him the cool new trails that we discovered. It was hot, but under the shade, it was nice. I am just so thankful for these amazing trails. These have literally saved me from going stir crazy.
Hailey, you've been doing resistance band training with me on some days. This weekend, you came up to me with the bands and asked if I could turn the "
TB" on for you. I immediately knew what you wanted, so I pulled up the workout on YouTube and you were off.
Sunday, we celebrated Father's day with waffles, bacon, eggs, and home fries. Cards, and pizza for dinner.
When I asked you guys what your favorite thing about Daddy, this is what you said.
Nathan: I like how you play with me...sometimes.
Hannah: I like how you help me solve problems when my friend and I have an argument.
Hailey: I like Daddy's hugs.
This week I have you guys signed up for a creativity art camp and we also have virtual VBS. We are still doing about 20 minutes of Chinese in the afternoon, but it's a "break" week for me.
Well, that's about it for now. Love,
Mommy
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