Spring break, the plan and day 1

With Rod working full time and me working from home full time, we struggle to amuse Dominic when there's a day off school.  Over the holidays, I took a full 2 weeks off and thats just how we handled it.  For spring break, I wanted to trial what we will be doing this summer, so we have a nanny. 

She comes over about when Rod leaves for work, and leaves about when I wrap up.  I requested from the school a pile of work and made the below schedule.  My biggest goals were to get Dominic active and keep him off the screens.

So. Yesterday -

Rachel arrived right around 10am.  Dominic had by that point completed items 1 and 2 and he insisted on a bike ride.  They were gone about 40 minutes, came home and he wanted to walk the dogs.  We negotiated that down to just 1 dog at a time  and they left with Kama.  Kumar cried the whole time Kama was gone.

They came home, made lunch (Dominic ate 2 pb&j's on GF bread, a bowl of grapes, a baggie of sugar snap peas, and half my steak/asparagus that I didn't want) and then walked Kumar. Kama cried the whole time Kumar was gone. 

Upon their return, they did homework.  This consisted of practicing his cursive signature, reading a book out loud, drilling sight words, and doing a math work sheet.  Dominic does something called touch point math, which helps him add and subtract, but whats funny is he REALLY wants you to hold his hand while he does it.  His teacher warned me about this.  We let him stop halfway through the worksheet for another dog walk (Shanti - during which both Kama and Kumar cried the whole time) and then they came back and finished.

Here's a video of him doing his math homework.  Its first grade math, but you guys HE'S DOING FIRST GRADE MATH!!!!!!

The plan is to have similarly structured days the remainder of this week.  We will mimic this during the summer, but with things like Zoo trips and Swimming worked in each week.