Day 165

11th August 2022

Haminations

Haminations have taken over our house at the moment!

A 20-year-old American animator and comedian, has a YouTube channel called, Haminations.

They’re a collection of short stories from his life, that he’s animated and recorded funny voiceovers.

Clever, right?!

He has a great sense of comedy and even though I haven’t liked a couple of things I’ve seen, it’s rated 12+ and so I told Linc he’s ok to watch it. (I was awarded an epic hug for this).

The cool thing though, is that Lincoln is suddenly ALL about animation!!

Will he make an animation?

I don’t know.

Will he drop it in a few days’ time?

I don’t know.

(Although I hope not, because he just ran my credit card for a tonne of software!)

The point is, he’s inspired and it’s all coming from him.

He chose the subject, he figured out the software & he’s sitting down to ‘work’ without needing any prompting.

He was still in his pajamas when he began working on his avatar.

Mila joined him on the floor at the sofa (🙄 even though both tables were cleared and available?!) and they drew for almost an hour.

A little later it was time for gymnastics and Linc took the laptop and went through the animation tutorials.

I love it when they really throw themselves into something.

It’s amazing to watch. So focused!!

English/Maths

After gym, we worked on English and Math’s.

Linc continued with his Peru research and Mila worked on spelling her list of tricky words, homophones, & comprehension.

Then some more practice on the times table app.

Today Mila learnt the trick with the nine’s.

If the sum is 9 x 4 for example, the first number of the answer is one less than 4, so it’s 3. The second number of the answer is 9 – 3 which is 6. So, the answer is 36!

This pattern can be repeated up to the nine. 9 x 8? Easy, it’s 72!

When Mila learnt this her confidence grew. She’s still learning the smaller groups and so being able to calculate nines in her head was a huge boost!