COVID-19 Homeschool, Day 61

By the numbers:
61 days of homeschool so far (counting today)
6 days until moving day
5 days until we close on the house
2 Google/Zoom meetings left this week
3 days of homeschool still to go (also counting today)
1 day until our first (and hopefully last?!??) Open House for this house

Due to tomorrow's Open House, I will be frantically cleaning all day and supervising the kids only minimally. Which is to say, whatever this schedule says the kids did, there's no guarantee that it was actually done. Nor do I care all that much. We're just trying to get through these last few days without losing our minds.

So here's what we said we did today, whether or not we actually did it.

7-8:30am: Get up, get dressed, have breakfast, brush hair and teeth. I'm very certain we're all up and everyone had breakfast. Anything else is debatable.

8:30-9am: Both kids now know the drill: Start by looking at your daily and weekly assignments to see what needs to be done (or finished) today. Both of their teachers went pretty light on today's work, so there's not a lot to be done. They both asked to do more of the Virtual Field Day games, so I told them that if they worked on at least one regular assignment first, we would do some field day games before it gets too hot. They both opted to do their half hour on Lexia.

9-9:30am: Field Day Games!!! My son reviewed the states and capitals while my daughter collected what we needed for a few different games. But then they changed their minds and asked if they could just play outside, since it's so nice out. Sure, why not?

9:30-10am: And then I smelled a weird burning smell and ran outside to find my son lighting basil leaves on fire with a lighter. So he spent the rest of the half hour in detention; i.e., sitting at the table doing nothing. I suppose everyone is an idiot at age 10, but lighting things on fire when you've had innumerable Cub Scout and parental lectures about why it's a bad idea AND doing it where your mom can see (and smell) it from the window is an added level of idiocy. Oh, the teenage years are going to be a challenge. My daughter is still running around and playing. I am vacuuming the basement so I can make sure he stays in detention. Partway through he called over his sister and convinced her to let him watch her Chromebook.

10-10:30am:  He is now writing "I will not light things on fire" 100 times in cursive. She is watching Miss Tracey's Circle Time. I am wondering if it's too early to have a cocktail. (He got about as far as the fifth repetition in the first 15 minutes before I took mercy on him and we had a big hug and a little chat. I don't think he'll be trying that again any time soon. Probably something else equally egregious, but not that.)

10:30-11am: He has his final trombone lesson of the year, so he's getting out of detention to do that. She's doing her Zearn math. I am vacuuming the entire house and being grateful that the new house is all hardwood floors and tiled bathrooms. Also cursing that two of the people in this house have long, thick, wavy hair. Soooo much hair.

11am-12:30pm: We're all toast, so we decided to take an early lunch break. 

12:30-1:30pm: We're still toast, so we read Harry Potter together for an hour and then declared ourselves done. DONE!

Two more days to go. We can do this! Have a great weekend, everyone!