A New President is the Best Lesson of All

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Today is the big day, the day our country can finally start over. Definitely not the day for school as usual, well at least not entirely. His first activity was choose & do – computer this time. I have computer limited to Tuesdays and Thursdays or he would want it all the time. Luckily the PBS Kids site has lots of games that involve reading and math skills. After that we did reading and writing – he’s still struggling with forming letters, getting very frustrated with it, but I am happy to say his word recognition is growing by the day. We also did a lesson on government, complete with a fun journal exercise where we imagined what would happen if dogs ran the government. It was a very silly way to get across the idea of how lawmakers make laws in the interest of the people they represent. I was considering putting in a Schoolhouse Rocks video, but it was time to go.

We left to go to the NY Explorers play space where they were having a kid friendly Inauguration watching party. Rocket Boy listened to about half of it but then got sucked into playing. He found a kid who nearly perfectly matched him in play style, so they played happily while we watched more of the coverage.

Afterwards we got lunch nearby and by that time it was time for Rocket Boy and Hypersteve to head off for chess and playing all afternoon while I got a few hours to myself. Chess was a no go – the library changed the day from Tuesday to Thursday without updating the website, but they got to have a mad snowball fight in the park before heading home. Hypersteve even took it up on himself to work though a few pages of an addition workbook.