Even the best intentions backfire. I spent an hour last night working on some Hawaii activities and math worksheets for today. But somehow this morning I was the only one excited about them...
Instead, this morning's excitement was caused by an egg.
Not just any egg, but a double-yolked egg. For some reason, Lauren has cracked open 3 or 4 double yolked eggs just in this past month! This has been a real point of contention for her brother, Zach. He is so frustrated and envious of her egg luck.
In fact, his envy was the entire reason we had the 8 egg recipe fiasco yesterday. He just wanted to crack more eggs in hopes of finding a double yolked egg.
Low and behold...
This is a picture of the first egg I cracked for this mornings breakfast. Of course, this situation sent Zach into an angry fury! This egg came out of the same carton that Zach cracked 8 eggs out of yesterday. What are the chances?
What are the chances? So instead of my fun worksheets that I worked so hard on last night... we ended up talking about probabilities. Did you know that there is a 1 in 1000 chance of gettting a double yolked egg? What are the chances that we have gotten 4 double yolked eggs just in this past month? What are the odds of other things? We had fun talking about probabilities and odds with flipping a quarter and rolling a six sided die.
What is the superstition or meaning of a double yolked egg? Well depending on ancient lore, a double yolked egg can mean a number of things, either someone is pregnant with twins (no freaking way), someone in your family is going to die (yikes!) OR you are going to experience good luck (fingers crossed for this one) ! I'm going with the luck thing...
And what about these superstitions? Black cats, broken mirrors, walking under a ladder... where did all these superstitions originate? Again, ADD mom goes down the Google rabbit hole while the kids have now lost interest and take off on their own learning path.
You know what, independent learning really worked out for us today! Lauren took the initiative to make a Hawaiian habitat complete with building her own cardboard hut. Zach worked on building stands for his Bendy cutouts. I actually got about 2 hours of uninterrupted work time. This is a new first for us and I'm taking notes!
If anyone is interested, I thought this math discussion worksheet I created was a fun way to think about math. (You could do this for any destination - near or far.)
Hawaii is 3400 miles away from Denver
How long will the flight take if an airplane can fly 500 mph?
How long will sailing take if a boat can sail 20 mph?
How long will swimming take if you swim 2 mph for 10 hours each day?
How long will biking take if you could bike across water 10 mph for 10 hours each day?
Even though my plans for today were a total flop, there are always silver linings. Right now I have time to reflect and write. Why? Well, its one of those rare days when Zach and Lauren are getting along. The kiddos are knee deep in creative play in our backyard. Nothing makes me happier than to see this. Can't we all just get along - we so need a lot more of this in our country right now.💓
Warms my heart and that is the true glory of homeschool.
I suggest you let Lauren buy your lotto tickets
ReplyDeleteYes! I agree. I'll take her today.
DeleteZach thought he would be lucky and go play some ticket spewing games at the local arcade yesterday. Not so lucky and boy was he mad for hours afterwards.