Preston:
Preston started a new math book through his Living Education Connection class. He has been completing one lesson per day. He learned about perimeter and was so excited to catch onto the concept and be able to figure it out in his head.
Marissa:
Preston started a new math book through her Living Education Connection class. She has been completing one lesson per day in her new book. We are reviewing addition, subtraction and some geometry concepts right now.
Caleb:
Caleb is working on counting. He uses math counters to practice counting to 20.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Preston:
Preston started a new language arts curriculum through his Living Education Connection class. He loves it! It incorporates spelling, grammar and phonics. Preston has also been working on creative writing in his journal every day. He is writing a chapter book about a pencil with arms and legs who goes to the moon to find the cap-liens (baseball caps who live in space). They are going to try to take over the world. He's really enjoying creative writing and has decided he wants to publish his book when he finishes it.
Marissa:
Marissa started a new language arts curriculum through her Living Education Connection class. The mini book readers are her favorite. She completes a lesson every day. She also has a creative writing journal where she writes and illustrates stories.
Caleb:
Caleb is working on phonics through his Living Education Connection class. He also completes lessons on Upstart a few days a week to work on his phonics and reading skills.
HISTORY (World Geography)
Preston, Marissa & Caleb:
We are studying world geography this year. Continents, countries and cultures. We started out our class by making suitcases and passports and then began our travels in Africa. We read several books including one called Mama Panya's Pancakes. Of course we had to make pancakes for lunch that day! We are loving every minute studying geography together in our class.
TECH (Building & Engineering)
Preston, Marissa & Caleb:
We read a story called "Galimoto" by during our study of Africa. We decided to try to build our own Galimoto out of wire (pipe cleaners). We learned so much. It is so much more difficult than we thought to build a car out of wire. It took us so long and ours isn't very functional. We learned that we probably need stronger wire, some instructions and a whole lot of patience!
We also worked on building structures. Preston and Marissa worked on building a book tower while Caleb practiced building a cup tower.
Preston's Galimoto
Marissa's Galimoto
Caleb's cup tower
OPTIONAL (PE)
Preston & Marissa:
Preston and Marissa attended swim lessons as part of their physical education class. Their summer classes finish this week and they will start lessons again in October.
Caleb:
Caleb's swimming class starts in October. For P.E. this week, he rode his bike and scooter.
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