Busy week for Ethan, which is a pretty consistent theme for him. The nice thing is that because he’s at home, he has time to accomplish tasks without feeling rushed.
May 20
Ethan spent the entire weekend playing with Kal. They got tired of me taking photos of them so they tried to run as soon as the camera came out.
Ethan and Kal played the entire day together.
And Kal even got to try Japanese soba noodles for the first time.
May 21
Kal and Ethan spent most of Victoria Day playing together, too. First, it was tennis.
At the school field, some older kids were sitting on the soccer goal netting. Ethan and Kal were telling them they would stretch the netting and shouldn’t sit on it.
Watched Black Beauty, the original TV series from the 70s. We borrowed it from the library after seeing how much Ethan enjoyed the book.
We were curious what Victoria Day is for and found out it’s to celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday.
Ethan practiced scientific notation before heading off to bed.
May 22
Keeping track of our jog.
Found a super-smooth rock.
Learning about genetics.
Reading and answering questions about global warming in Classroom Ready Science News. Ethan has been answering with full sentences and understands more and more how to write clearly.
Finding the volume and surface area of a rectangular prism.
Ethan learned about slope and made a chart describing the four types of slope.
Ethan did some math in Prodigy.
Practiced typing.
Studied French using Babbel.
Read about astronomy.
Read “The 39 Story Treehouse.”
Learned about Ethan Bear, an indigenous NHL player, from Canadian Reader and practiced comprehension questions.
Writing math equations on his hand for fun.
Helped plant seeds to grow herbs to finish off the day.
May 23
Ethan went to nature school and didn’t really want his photo taken.
At nature school, Ethan learned how to make a flute from some hollow pieces of wood brought by the teacher. The holes were made by heating up a screw head and pushing it against the piece of wood.
The flute didn’t work well so Ethan and Kal turned their flutes into blowguns.
Dong Eun a lovely and delicious lunch for Ethan.
Circle time before the end of nature school for this week.
One of our neighbours is away and asked Ethan to help her water her plants and check her mail.
Practiced violin afterwards.
Watched violin tutorial videos.
Completed an article from Canadian Reader about melanoma and how to prevent skin cancer.
Made a sign to remind himself to water our neighbour’s and our plants.
We finished reading Gulliver’s Travels. We both really enjoyed this book. I looked into comprehension questions about the book but felt that it would be better to ask questions after each chapter. We’ll try that with our next book.
May 24
Started the day with violin practice.
Read about math.
Completed an article from Classroom Ready Science News.
And he worked on an article about Canada’s Great Trail from Canadian Reader.
Learned about and practiced absolute value.
Learned about ratios.
Practiced finding the circumference of a circle.
Ethan has been cold during his swimming lessons because they use the main pool. So we got Ethan a wetsuit and he was able to enjoy the lesson and not feel cold.
Did some more typing practice today.
Tried some coding on Tynker.com.
Then did some coding with Scratch.
Ethan drew the solar system with exploded views of each object, including the newly identified ninth planet.
May 25
We got Ethan a fitness tracker to help him monitor his jogging and daily physical activity. Ethan chose the colour.
He worked on independent and dependetn variables.
We would like Ethan to practice writing reports so he used a guide to help him research information he needed to gather.
Different experiences and perspectives for different people.
Ethan helped make peanut butter cookies.
Practice typing.
Ethan organized information about “The 13 Story Treehouse.” He did a pretty good job and just needs to work on what details to include.
Practice violin.
Eldon came over and the two of them made a board game based on a game in Scratch.
Eldon’s dad came over and we all played tennis together.
Ethan his 10,419 steps today!
Here is the board game. There are four parts/sections of the game. You use a dice to determine how your ninja character moves.
Ethan wrote about a personal accomplishment, which was solving the 7x7x7 Rubik’s Cube. We wanted him to practice his writing so these types of writing assignments with a general writing prompt seem to be helpful.
He loves these treehouse books. We started reading “The Secret Garden” after completing “Gulliver’s Travels” but I’m not sure Ethan likes the new book. We’ll see how it goes.
May 26
Ethan woke up and immediately started working on his ninja board game.
We went for a jog but took more of a walk, instead. We went down to the seawall and enjoyed playing there for a while before coming home for breakfast.
Once home, Ethan practiced violin.
And then he went back to his board game.
Kal came over and the two of them played the game and worked on adding more to it.
Ethan took Kal to our neighbour’s to water the plants.
Getting ready to go to the beach.
We hung out at the beach for most of the morning. Kal and Ethan caught crabs and also found a few sea stars.
Kal’s brother Victor came out to play. Ethan and Kal weren’t too happy having Victor around. It’s interesting because, with some little kids, Ethan is very kind and likes playing with them. Some others, not so much.
We took the van to the beach and Ethan and Kal had their snack up in the top bunk, although they didn’t want their photo taken.
Back home, they made a new game with Tie Fighters and the Death Star. The object of the game is to use a pencil and push the end of it so that it hits something.
That evening, we had a family movie night and watched “The BFG.” We bought some snacks but Ethan wasn’t happy about having to go grocery shopping.
We’ve explained to him many times before about how there are things we need to do so he shouldn’t whine or complain. He’s been very vocal about not wanting to go shopping lately. We think it’s because he wants to spend time doing his own things at home.
Anyway, we enjoyed watching the movie. Hopefully, we can make this a weekly family event.
He finished the night by writing about why exponents are useful. Before going to bed, Ethan re-read “The BFG,” since he has the book and hasn’t read it in a while. The movie obviously inspired him to pick up the book again.
And that was Ethan’s week!
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