A Day in the Life: Spring 2015

Here is a little window on what we are up to these days.  It may sound a little disjointed.  It is.  But we do get a lot done.  Activities are lumped together by time of day, not subject.


At breakfast, Solomon and Nova had a long conversation about a post singularity universe and AI. (Sparked, no doubt, by a conversation Solomon and his dad had the night before about a post singularity story idea Solomon had.)

This morning Solomon and I went over the third chapter of Essays and Term Papers by Michelle McLean.  He also read the fourth chapter, as well as some of a book on Watergate.  I corrected Nova's math and she corrected her mistakes.  She is working on geometry and calculating the area of triangles.  Every once in awhile two digit multiplication is tripping her up, but she understands the concept well.  Charlotte and I read two pages of Max and the Fat Cats, the last Bob Book in set four.  The newest phonogram is -igh.  Nova practiced violin.  Charlotte practiced cello.



Charlotte and Ariadne played with play dough.  Charlotte did a little handwriting practice.  Ariadne has been asking what color things are all day "Is Twilight purple?" "Is that bacteria pink?"  "We have a green house.  On the outside."  So far, she's been right every time.

At lunch we listened to a little Billy Joel and I had the kids try and figure out what Allentown was about.  Solomon figured it out.  We also listened to Goodnight Saigon. The kids knew it was about war, but couldn't pin it down to the Vietnam conflict.

In the afternoon we watched a The Seven Wonders of the Microbe World then made up agar for twelve petri dishes and made a list of things the kids want to swab.  Solomon did a little conversion math, since the instructions were for one petri dish, not a dozen.  Aria got in on the documentary, but napped through the rest of it.

Solomon practiced violin.

Nova made up 80 fliers for her kid's newspaper project she is trying to launch in the neighborhood.

I read Animalia by Graeme Base and Miffy Rides a Bike  by Dick Bruna to the little girls at bedtime. Solomon may have done some Learn Python the Hard Way (programing).  I will have to ask.  Nova worked on a blender (computer graphics) project.