Fun with a sick kid

Yesterday Julia came down with a bad case of the sniffles from her seasonal allergies. I had to find a fun way to incorporate school so it wasn't too taxing on her system since she looked so pitiful. Her eyes were red and so was her little nose. She looked like Rudolph with allergy eyes. Well after a warm bath and a dose of Claritin and her nose spray I let her pick out what workbooks she was going to work out of in my bed so she could stay under the covers. She really enjoyed school that way. We did a couple of exercises in her phonics book over the letter G and she was happy with that. She wanted to keep going but I noticed that she was fighting to stay awake to get through the lessons.
She snuggled down under the covers and I put the TV on History channel for her to watch one of the shows on it. She loves the Modern Marvels shows that teach about how things work and are made. After her nap she started feeling better.
Today she was doing better and was able to play on Jumpstart for about 2 hours. I love this program since it teaches all the basic ELA and Math skills as well as Social Studies for early elementary on helping others and goal setting. We also went hunting for letter G videos since that was the letter of the week. Electric company has one that is really good that goes over both the hard and soft G sounds and word examples. It was a hard one to find so if your needing help with that just click on the link for it.
Right now she is laying down watching Dinosaur Train on PBS getting ready for her nap. I know it seems like she may be too old to nap, but she is one of those kids that gets really mean and grumpy if she doesn't get one in. Hopefully we will have a good afternoon once her sister comes home.