It's your first day of what?
I keep taking it. Awww
First official day of
Kindergarten and paper is
flying all over the floor!
Hi Explorers! Morgan and Chris here
documenting our journey towards full-time
family travel
This week we
celebrated a huge milestone
Jonah's very first week
of virtual school!
We are really glad that we're starting Jonah off at a
very young age with
online learning. It's going to be like
foundations for him
I know when we went to school I was probably
13, 14 when I got my first computer
so for him to be 5 in
kindergarten age and
just starting at that age is amazing
and he is so, so like excited
about it all, which is awesome and
just because it's online does not mean
that it's not
any less exciting. My mom was crying over a
TikTok of a little girl getting on a bus
and she like would not
stop crying about it
and I was like "did you cry on Monday
when we started virtual school with Jonah?" And she was like
"well no. He's at home." And I'm like "well,
he's still starting kindergarten!" So it was still
very special and I can assure you
that he is so
pumped and excited about it
and we are just so excited to watch him grow.
[Jonah] I'm so excited. [Chris] So you have to log in. So your email address is
jhall@
lifetechacademy.org.
That's your email.
[teacher] Jonah tell us a little bit
about you.
you got to take it off mute ok
there we go. [Jonah] I like
spinosaurus'
and they are my favorite dinosaur.
What do we do?
Mental picture!
[Morgan] This is going to get messy are you cool with that
[Jonah] Yup!
Judey
[Chris] are you getting in on the action?
[Morgan] Are you doing schoolwork too?
[Chris] Are you doing school like brother?
oh I love it!
[Jonah] Oh, man. I blew it!
[Morgan] Go ahead and find the numbers
[Jonah] 5 is a number. [Morgan] Yup
[Jonah] 2 is a number, isn't it?
[Morgan] Yup!
[Jonah] F is not.
[Morgan] It's a letter.
What's Q? [Jonah0 A letter
[Cheering]
[Chris] You had to find circles around the house
what circles did you find?
Show me [Jonah]
1,2,3
[Chris] Very good! [Morgan]
How is it? Check-in! [Jonah] Awesomesauce
[Morgan] Awesomesauce! What's new today
Who did we have a call with today?
[Jonah] Daddy called my
teacher. [Morgan] Yeah that went pretty well, don't you think?
[Jonah] She has 4 kids.
[Morgan] I think she had 6!
And
look what are you doing now?
[Jonah] Doing my journal!
[Morgan] Journal, very cool!
He is perfecting his Ns
and his Os it says "No"
I got an
occasional "yes" but look at that
handwriting, he's 5 that's good
right? [Chris] He's getting there I like it. It looks pretty good!
[Morgan] Nailing it! [Chris] He's singing "Roxanne."
[Jonah] Mailbu, Malibu,
spending Daddy's money with an attitude
Roxanne, Roxanne.
[Dooda] This is actually a real bow
See it comes with two arrows
It's Jonah's size!
[Chris] Wait show me! I want to see
pull it back and don't let go. That's it! Now watch your head. Good job.
[Dooda] Did you hit it?
[Chris] Show me, where did you hit it?
[Morgan] Day 5. What do you think?
Thumbs-up?
Not going to lie, it's been
a little crazy around here,
don't you think?
[Chris] A little bit. A little bit. A learning curve
[Morgan] Yeah, for us.
I think that Jonah is just
kind of rolling with the punches
for the most part and we are super proud of him
but I think trying to figure out those six
solid, academic hours
and again, we have the flexibility to do
them when we want but to try
to sprinkle them in when
it's the best for everybody and
have everybody's attention
then you still have work. It's been a little crazy
not to mention that
Jude at 2
he also by default is
doing his coursework too
along with Jonah
and I think that's
the craziest part
[Chris] I think one of the things they stressed most to us is
this is a learning curve
and there are going to be challenges and you have to stick with it
and finding that balance
not just for Jonah
but for the whole family
is something that we are
still working on. Now, it's been getting progressively better for us
and it's going to keep getting better too
it's just that, that balance is so crucial
to them and to the whole family.
[Morgan] Yeah, I mean Jude at 2
is not going to have the same attention span as Jonah
at 5, so it's been
interesting to see what
he tolerates and what
he's just not interested in
What is Jude doing?
[Jude] Yells
[Morgan] Oh my gosh, Mr!
Move that nose around
Judey,
are you smooshed?
[Jonah] Can I help you? [Jude] NO! YOU CAN'T!
[Jonah] Can
I turn it off for you? [Jude] Yeah
[Jonah] K.
[Morgan] This is part of P.E. right?
[Chris] This is called "Gardening Musical
Statues." [Morgan] You've done a lot
this week like; archery,
soccer,
It's late but, that's the luxury
of
online school right? So
Jonah still has some energy somehow. If I
could ever find him.
So we decided
hey it's late but,
let's just do some work right?
And then look what I find
Sing your song.
He's been singing this song
[Jonah] I got a feeling in my body- ewwwww
I have a secret weapon.
We have a secret weapon. Whenever
Jonah is feeling a little unmotivated or
iffy if he wants to you know roll
through it,
We tell him that his teacher
will be looking at it and he has
the biggest crush
on his teacher
it is so funny!
Are you excited about your teacher?
[laughter]
What
do you think about your teacher, Chelsea?
[Jonah] She's beautiful. [Morgan] She's beautiful? Awww
Are you excited to connect with her soon?
Let me see those eyebrows
I think for the most part this week has been
pretty smooth. Do you think that?
[Chris] There
has been a few little hiccups
our printer broke and we had
to get another printer
and then we printed stuff and realized
we were out of paper [Morgan] and ink, I think those were 3
separate trips [Chris] they were 3 separate trips
[Morgan] We didn't spring for the laser printer this time
[Chris] And then
the ink was sold out at different stores as well
you didn't want to order it online because then you have to wait
a couple of days because you just want to do it
[Morgan] Oh and then Jonah
he doesn't know what ink
cartridges are so he must have
thought that they were those little
toy blind bags, that's what I'm guessing at least.
[Chris] Probably because he just decided to open them all
[Morgan] Yeah he decided to get his little scissors and open them all, so another trip.
[Chris] What do we got so far? [Jonah] We got
glue, we got maskes,
[Chris] Maskes? [Jonah] No, Maskes
[Chris] No you call them masks [Jonah] Masks,
and we also got
and we also got a notebook [Chris] Perfect.
What else do we need? [Jonah] A printer
we also have 5-6.
[Chris] What else do we need
[Jonah] We also got this.
[Chris] Highlighters
[Jonah] and masks, and headbands
We also got headbands
and we also need a printer
[Chris] Apparently
The world's smallest all-in-on printer
Did we get everything that we needed?
[Jonah] Yeah. [Chris] Printer [Jonah] Yeah.
[Chris] paper [Jonah] Yeah [Chris] glue
[Jonah] stickers [Chris] A free sticker!
[Morgan] One week down, 13 years to go!
[Chris] Well there's Jude too
so a lot more years to go
[Morgan] A lot more years to go
but it is amazing I mean
how quickly time goes by
and I am still just completely baffled that he's
5-years-old and in kindergarten
it's just crazy
[Chris] I know I still remember vividly
holding
him in the hospital and hearing him
cry for the first time
and it just seems like it wasn't very long ago
and you know then he was taking his first little steps
and now he's like
starting to read and
his handwriting is amazing
and I'm like "Woah, slow down."
[Morgan] and I think a lot of it is amazing because
we have been working with him so much for the
last few years and just seeing
the difference it makes
to actually have a little bit more
and structure
a little bit more discipline, I mean
his handwriting is beautiful, he's
excited about reading I mean
before he enjoyed us reading but
him himself I think he found it a little intimidating
and he is just on such a great path so
we are just so excited about it
and we will definitely keep you posted.
This week's Explorer Shoutout goes to
Tristain the Adventurer
a Michigan Family, exploring the great lakes and
beyond. [Morgan] What are you
Doing this semester?
Are you virtual schooling
homeschooling are you going
into school? What are you doing?
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[Chris] Adios! [Morgan] Have a great week!
It's been a week,
look around, we apologize.
Oh, Jude. Judey
I think this is your new preschool teacher
Do you want to say hello to them? [Jude] Hello! [Chris] Can you say hi?
Here say hi to your new teacher
[Jude] Hi...
[Chris] Ask him how he is
[Jude] How is you?
[Morgan] So tiered. [Jonah] Yeah me, too.
[Chris] Jonah this is your Spanish teacher for the year
Can you say hello? [Jonah]
Hi!