Day #5: Mom is Sick, What To Do

It was one of those mornings when you wake up with a sore throat and head congestion, it is gloomy and dark outside, and when all you want to do is stay in bed (I am sure we have all had a day like that); but, being a stay at home mom and homeschooling mom we have to slowly get up and continue on with the day. First off, I have to admit, I see a different side of my kids when I am feeling under the weather; my son gives more unprompted kisses and they both just seem to know that snuggling with mom is a better option that running around all silly, so that is definitely nice. I honestly was not going to do an "official" day of school yesterday with Liam, and we did not, but we did do a lot of learning just through playing and talking; which is some times where I believe we learn the most, I know for me personally tests and papers never helped nearly as much as the hands on, in the field training.

Here is what we learned through play:

They both really wanted to play with playdoh, 

so this was a great opportunity to "sneak" in some learning

 He cut out and lined his shapes up, then we talked about 

the names of the different shapes and how many sides they all had.

He then decided (on his own) to cut out another set of the same shapes. 

So, he sorted the shapes and put them with the 

one they matched, then he worked on counting by 2's.

After the playdoh (and kids) were all cleaned up, Liam requested that we make some Jello jigglers (he has a really fun hockey themed molds). While the kids were pouring in the gelatin powder we talked about how each box had 3 ounces of powder and since we had two boxes I asked Liam how many ounces all together we had, it took him a little while but he figured out that 3+3=6 and I also informed him that 3X2=6. They were having a lot of fun with this activity, they did every thing themselves, 

besides pouring in the boiling water.

Lastly, today we drew with chalk on the trampoline. 

He worked on his shapes.

And just let his imagination take over and came up
with fun little stories to go along with his drawings.

So, what do other homeschoolers do on days like this? I am curious to know, because even though we are going through this journey "separately", we really are going through this together. One of my goals for this blog is to not just merely share our day with readers, but to reach out and let others know they are not alone, struggles are real at times, but there is so much joy even through the struggles that we tend to forget (even me, I struggle more then appearances may give off). Lets encourage each other, moms and dads alike out there are doing their best and working their hardest every day to give their children the best future possible. It's a hard job, but ever so rewarding.

*This post was about what we did yesterday (Monday), I was just a little behind getting it up.