Much better day 2

I think I realized what the problem with yesterday was. I was reading to them from a textbook. It was NOT good or fun reading. I didn’t enjoy reading it and they didn’t enjoy listening to it.

Today I ditched the textbook and read a book about the solar system from our personal library. MUCH better. I got through the whole book, they made clay planets, AND I got them to do a little bit of math & writing to boot

Here are their planets in order from Right to Left: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth (note the moon), Mars, asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn (note the rings lol), Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (the dwarf planet).

The Solar System, medium: clay & toothpicks

Here’s a close-up of the masterpieces that are Earth and Saturn:

Saturn w/ rings and Earth w/ its moon

We took a break for lunch. After lunch they were eager to do some writing and I managed to squeak in a tiny bit of math for Taz.

Taz preferred the table

Blue preferred a less traditional setting

Now we are finished for the day. Blue is reading his Bionicles book and Taz is about to fall asleep on the couch. Notice I have made no mention of Ladybug starting? She is still in denial and I’m not pushing…yet.