This week, we discovered the website, Khan Academy. Benjamin, Oliver, and Isla have been wanting to spend all of their time playing there, reviewing math skills and watching computer programming videos.
Benjamin and Oliver finished their Pinewood Derby cars. They decided to have Nebraska themed cars for racing in New York. Benjamin's car is a corn cob and Oliver's is the Nebraska football field. On Wednesday, there was a preliminary weigh-in. Chad is going to help set up the track tonight and the big race is tomorrow.
When the boys are busy working on writing or math, Isla has spent an unprecedented amount of time playing with her LEGO people and My Little Ponies. Joyce is impressed and very glad that we allotted space in the car for these toys to come along! It does mean that we have to be careful moving around the small house, as we never know when a pony or LEGO girl might be napping in the middle of the floor. Benjamin was pleased to finally get to play with Isla's LEGO friends by capturing them with his Clone Trooper LEGOs.
We've been trying to heat the house mostly with fire, and Joyce is getting better at keeping the fire going. If we were pioneers without backup electric heat, however, we would surely have frozen to death by now. Today is a colder day, since Chad didn't have time to chop any kindling and Joyce is not confident enough with the hatchet. Maybe this afternoon, we'll have to go hunt for kindling in the woods.
Oliver has nothing to add today, as he is re-reading The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future. He got it free from the county library. They had a winter reading program and all three kids got to pick out a free book upon completion.
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