Final Days of School (well distance learning)

Not sure the last school post I shared but this is basically all of May in one. We are so thankful they ended earlier than our Minnesota school, we were just DONE with the whole distance learning thing. Not one wanted to do any of it. Here's Emma on one of her calls, celebrating with the balloons behind her the week after her birthday

Mary on one of her calls. Her teacher didn't have weekly calls but the last week of school had one everyday. 

The girls teachers asked for photos of them to make their end of year books. So I sent these in. Such beautiful girls!

Girls doing some kids holy yoga one day after lunch, love how they ended in savanna: 

Coloring our big coloring map:

Fuse beads made their way out toward the end and stayed out for quite a while.

 

The warmer weather meant water play outside! Happy to be getting use out of this well used water table. We bought this new for Isaac 7 years ago and boy has it gotten lots of love over the years. And had moved to three different houses! 

 

And the end of year wouldn't be complete without end of year photos, haha! Had a little fun with them

What a year it's been! Moving on to 3rd grade and 1st grade! Wonder what next year will bring. 

Fourth Week of being at Home (April 6 through 10)

Tuesday April 6th

I had a BSF call at 9:30 and Isaac also had his piano lesson call at 9:30. Luckily Kyle took a quick break from work and held a 'P.E.' session outside with the other three, lol. 

That afternoon we made some pattern Frozen fruit wands: 

 

And had some more learning, Isaac had some google classroom assignments to catch up on so he was doing two a day last week. 

That evening we had the kids help us move some wood to the back. We're getting our trees trimmed but wanted to keep some of the big logs for our fire pit, lol had we known these were coming we wouldn't have bought firewood last week, oops. 

 

We also made a fire... but it was HOT! The kids just complained about how hot it was, ate their S'mores then ran inside. 

Wednesday we had our first official Music class via zoom. We have a call twice a week, however I totally forgot about it on Friday morning, oops. Set an alarm for this week. 

The girls watched one of their teachers lead a bunny drawing video

Then we decorated easter cookies from a snoopy cookie kit I had gotten at Costco a couple months back. 

 

 

We picked up a playset from Costco the week before and are SLOWLY getting it put together. I'm doing a few steps here and there. But since it's been colder this week I haven't been out there, and we're kinda waiting for the tree trimmer to finish up so we're not in the way. But the kids have loved playing with the box. 

We got this put together and that's about as far as we are right now. I'll make a separate post with the steps as we built it. 

Thursday our BSF lesson was also geography as we located the path Paul took from Jerusalem to Italy. BSF can also count as learning history :-) 

Friday we NEEDED to get outside and went for a morning family walk around the block doing a scavenger hunt. 

We ended the week with a movie night watching Tale of Despereaux, which is also a novel and we finished reading through it Friday so celebrated while watching the movie.