Gramma Camp – Week 25 Monday

Sunday was Pi day: 3:14. Grampa bought us a blueberry pie to celebrate. Jos can cite the digits for 20 digits.

Monday morning was busy. I put out the cardboard recycling (which Isabelle helped me bundle) and the garbage. Fed the deer. Grampa kicked the girls out of bed. Monday had begun.

Josee's computer was not recharging. I think it was the extension cord. We found a new cord, and we were good. Crisis averted! 

Eggo Waffles for Izzy; toast, Jos.

Josephine's class was interesting. They are studying circumference and area. Caitlin told me that the teacher had mentioned my two favourite math books. I liked reading to my students, back in the day. It's would be a nice start to a lesson. Isabelle asked for these books for months, back when I read to them at bedtime.

There were only 4 or 5 of them had their videocamera on. 

Here y'are, A/C, this is how they do word problems these days. In fact, as is the way, they knew the right answer, and had to show their work. They check the answer and see where they went wrong. Jos had forgotten the 'divide by 2' bit. She then fixed it up. Next, she took photos of her work and her answers and virtually handed them in. It is time consuming, and really dependent upon bandwidth and internet speed. 

It's hard work!

Drone flying. It was cold. 

Tree climbing. Izzy went out in her snow pants, gloves and hat. It was so cold, she came back in for her coat. 

Josephine got herself outside, she filled the feeder for me, replaced the battery in one trailcam, and inserted the memory card in the other. It was still brisk. She decided to go back to asynchronous work early, as she loves the math, 'was bored' and there isn't time to start anything else!

Jos asked her sister to assist her in hauling wood indoors. She declined. I helped. After all, Isabelle is sleeping in the guest room. Josee is enjoying her fire, privacy, and had tidied the entire room to her mathematical satisfaction. 

Grampa fetched us some tulips, to help celebrate the anticipation of spring.

We watched a show, all about the Irwin's Australian Zoo, and saw an ad for a new movie, 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.' The girls are keen to see it. Grampa explained about the Sunshine Patriot and the Winter Soldier. It is from a speech by Thomas Paine. Back during the American Civil War, the men who needed to get back to their farms, to feed families, were called Sunshine Patriots. The men who stuck it out, the Winter Soldiers.

Grampa did a post-dinner show, which will be revealed tomorrow. I have to process and edit the show for brevity! There were song sheets, however!

Both girls took themselves off to bed to read, prior to bedtime. They'd worked hard. I tucked them in, and went to bed to read, myself!

In February was had 24 cases of COVID–19. Our COVID–19 cases are up. Mon., March 15th - 74 cases, with 32 in Lanark West, up from 8 last week. Not good news.