Trying to stay on top of Ethan’s weekly observation this time. It was another week full of happenings and watching as Ethan learns. The week started off with Mother’s Day and ended with spending time with Ethan’s grandparents, so it was a week bookended by family time.
May 13
Mother’s Day. Ethan was excited about Mother’s Day and had prepared a fun and endearing comic for his card.
Ethan also made a card for his grandmother, who would be coming over for brunch.
We had fun putting together a puzzle after brunch. Nice to do something with the family like this.
Afterwards, Ethan drew the solar system and the orbits of each planet.
He also created the planets as squares, just for fun.
He then made a second card for Dong Eun.
And even a flower.
Listening to the astronomy podcast.
Out for some Mother’s Day chocolate cake.
Having fun with the water after the cake.
After a busy day, time for some reading before bed.
May 14
Started the day with some creative writing. Ethan hasn’t done much of this type of writing lately, but he’s really improved answering comprehension questions by getting good at using full sentences.
Practiced decimals divided by 2-digit whole numbers.
Worked on Classroom Ready Science News article.
Used the SelfDesign library to find information about Harry Potter.
Read about origami in the SelfDesign library.
Practiced French using Babbel.
Calculated the mean.
Watched magic videos and dominoes videos.
Spent some time playing tennis together.
Reading about science over dinner.
We usually check Ethan’s reading comprehension at night, then get ready for bed. In this case, Ethan wanted to play around with the superlatives and use ones he thought were funny, instead of correct. The last one cracked us up pretty good.
Practiced some prefixes.
Typing practice.
May 15
Tennis in the morning!
Practiced finding the medium and did some division with decimals.
Taekwondo time!
After taekwondo seems like a more fun time for these kids.
This is Shahin, Ethan’s mindfulness class teacher. Ethan loves her class. He gets to express his feelings in a safe environment and learn different ways to do so.
He’s holding a mask they made in class that has colours for different emotions he feels throughout the day.
May 16
Nature school day and a healthy lunch for both of us prepared lovingly by Dong Eun.
Getting his things ready on his own for nature school.
Got a jar of honey from nature school filled with hemlock buds. Ethan explained that keeping the buds in the honey will infuse the honey with flavour from the hemlock buds.
Brought home a leaf for a present.
Watched a video about how vaccines work.
Received his own copy of a new math book we’ve been checking out at the library. Ethan uses his math books for reference and for trying new types of problems.
Tennis!
Wrote something in his blog to wrap up the night. We also read Gulliver’s Travels, just like we’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks.
May 17
Ethan has been listening to the science podcasts again. He still likes Brains On Science and Wow in the World. He also liked a new one called the Astronomy Podcast.
Checking out some gravity simulations on Khan Academy.
And tennis. Again!
He also had taekwondo class and spent much of the time after class playing with his friends from class.
They built a bridge using chairs to place beetles on the “island.” They later rescued the beetles and set the free.
May 18
Ethan started the day by answering comprehension questions from a Canadian Reader article about Earth Day.
He drew a spiral with his compass, something he hasn’t done in a while.
Answered questions about the area of a circle.
Went onto Code Academy and practiced coding in Python.
He then drew some 3D illustrations of his Rubik’s Cubes.
May 19
Ethan woke up this morning and made a doll out of paper.
And a paper cut out design, too.
Reading about astronomy over breakfast.
Made another 3D Rubik’s Cube drawing.
We then went to my parents’ house for brunch where Ethan ate 10 slices of bacon!
After we came home, Ethan worked off the bacon by playing tennis with his friend Kal.
Taking a break for cake and talking about Prodigy Math.
They then spent the rest of the afternoon playing outside and making new friends.
Ethan and Kal made grass balls that they threw at each other.
After playing outside, Ethan came home and did some reading about exoplanets. He loves telling me about what he learns.
And that was the week!
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Ethan made so many lovely cards and gifts for Mother’s Day. You can tell he is enjoying expressing his love for her in these creative ways. I was pleased to see Ethan is exploring the Self Design library a bit on his own. It is a nice research tool to use as many resources have already been selected and linked and they are for many ages as well. I believe you will have access to the Library all summer too.
So much tennis too. Is this a new sport for Ethan or has he been playing for a while?
Thank you for the hemlock buds tip, I had no idea they had a special quality/taste that is delicious. They are one of my favorite trees. I love seeing all of the new growth on the evergreens in the spring, so tender and green.
I love his 3D rubik’s cubes they really pop off the paper!
Please tell Ethan I had to look up what exoplanets were as I had never heard of them!
Thank you for all of your excellent work, learning, life sharing, observations, photos and sharing. It has been such a gift and pleasure to work with you all this year. I found ethan to be such a curious and engaged learner who is following his interests with a fervor and passion which is unstoppable at this point. I look forward to another inspiring next year. Have a beautiful and fun summer.
Natasha Cucek
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