Haiku and a movie

It was a quiet rainy weekend.  So Saturday morning we made another Lego movie, The Adventures of Rock Monster and Friends.  You can see it on the Police Jones website.  We are still working on the audio portion so you can see the silent version for now.

We recently had a three long days of coughing and fevers at home I decided it was time for a little home school.  We did a little math and some handwriting exercises.  Buddy Boy's class has been studying and writing poetry. It's hard for him to focus on writing at school when he sits next to his best friend so he hasn't written much.  I told him we were going to write some poetry and he asked about haiku.  I don't know where he heard of it, but I explained what it was.  We practiced counting out syllables and then we started writing.  Buddy Boy's original line was, "Teddy Pandy is my amulet of sleep."  We changed things around a bit to fit the 5-7-5 form and came up with this:

     In my cozy bed

     Teddy Panda, black and white

     my amulet of sleep

After three days of pseudo-home school the kids were ready to keep going.  I was not.  So back they went sniffles and all.  At least the fevers were gone.

Graduation

Today I graduated from radiation treatment.  I got a diploma and everything.  I'm glad to be done.  I had 15 treatments over 3 weeks.  That isn't very long as far as things go.  It could have been double that or more.  It hasn't been too bad, a little tired most days and a lot tired a few days, and I look like I have a rectangular sunburn on my chest.  Now from radiation oncology back to medical oncology, but the main part is over, I think. 

Thanks to friends who helped with extra playdates during this time.  Now it's time to play at our house.

Scratch

Now that he's made his movie, Buddy Boy wants to move on to making his own computer games.  The trouble is how to make that happen when he is only 6 years old.  I asked my Facebook friends and my cousin recommended Scratch.  It's great, just the sort of thing I was hoping for but didn't know how to find.  It is a way for kids to make games, movies, art etc. 

Instead of writing out code, you snap together blocks of pre-written instructions.  One of the fun things is that you can look at what others have made and uploaded to the Scratch website and see how they did it, not just the finished product.  You can then take it, mix it up and play around with it.

I don't mind a little screen time if I'm training a future computer geek (aka highly paid engineer).  We are just starting so there is a lot to learn, but it looks like fun.  Now maybe he won't bug me about playing Minecraft.