This was our first week back to "normal" since Covid hit our co-op group in September. Our nanny (one of our co-op moms) was so sick and was finally able to come back this week to watch boys. On Monday we read our chapter of Story of the World, the boys had their Minecraft Education and Urban Sketching classes, and all three did their math and writing books ever day this week! Avery also did five lessons in 100 Easy Lessons to Reading.
Then on Thursday we had a fun adventure day with co-op!! A great way to kick our group back off after a month off! We went and explore Bonneville Dam, listened to a talk by a park ranger on salmon lifecycle, saw huge fish at the fish hatchery, and then had lunch and took photos at Multnomah Falls! It ended up drizzling on us enough we were all very wet by the end of the day!
Michael brought his sketching equipment and did a picture of the dam. The colored sketch is Emmet's rendition. I need to take one of Michael's still! Funny story, we ordered this sketching board thinking it would be able a quarter of its size!! Michael thought it was hilarious and really cool!
Dungeons and Dragons has always been a slight interest to the boys. Michael received a starter kit many years ago, before he could read. This last year our co-op started a different, kid specific roll playing game called Kids on Brooms, however it had to take a pause and hopefully I will start leading it soon! My brother also started a campaign for DnD for our the boys and John and I, so we do family game once a month with him leading. Since then, Michael has started reading all the books, another friend gave us a pile of more books, and Michael leads a DnD group with our nanny's son, and now Emmet is leading one for just him and Michael. They have played for hours and hours this week! Lots of math, strategy, story telling, planning, and reading involved!!
We also played the game Dragon Real this week. It is a RPG like card game where you must gather the resources to attack, and if you succeed you get to place a meeple on a level. Once all the available spaces are full, whomever has the most meeples gets the card and money is divided between first and second winners. The strategy is that your resources must be cards of either all the same number, color, or numbers in a row. When you submit cards for a try, you then roll that number of dice and hope to reach a high enough level to obtain a spot on the card. If your roll fails and is too small, your cards go back in your hand and you have to try again. It is really awesome for strategy because if you submit three cards and need a 12 to obtain a spot on a card, your roll would have to be perfect 4's to gain it (the dice only go up to 4, having repeats of 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the sides). It is fun to watch the boys think, now how possible is it for me to make this roll with these many dice?
We did not fit in a lot of reading together time this week, however the older two are pouring through more Hazardous Tales books, and Avery spend a lot of time looking through books. We did make it to the library and next week will be a further study into the emancipation proclamation as well as learning about the Underground Railroad.
Have a good week,
The Dillmans
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