September 10-14

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed one lesson per day in his math book.  He is working on drilling addition and subtraction facts and skip counting to prepare for multiplication.  

Marissa:

Marissa completed one lesson per day in her math book.  She is really enjoying the new book.  She loves how it incorporates stories and math concepts all together.  

Caleb:

Caleb worked in his math book.  He is working on writing numbers and counting.  He also did some skip counting with his older brother.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:
Preston completed one lesson per day in his language arts book.  He has readers, is working on spelling words from spelling lists and completing small grammar assignments that are all included in the daily lessons.  He is also working on reading out loud.  His current book is Ready Freddy.

Marissa:

Marissa completed one lesson per day in her language arts book.  She loves the readers and is working on incorporating spelling into her phonics studies this year.  She is practicing reading out loud every day.  This week she read Dick and Jane to her little brother.

Caleb:

Caleb is working on letters, sounds and sounding out short phonic words.  We play lots of games to keep him excited about sounding out words.  He also completes lessons in his language arts book 2-3 times a week.

HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

We are still learning about Africa.  This week we read a book called "A is for Africa."  We also read a book called "The Spider Weaver."  It was such a cute book.  It is the legend behind kente cloth.  We watched a YouTube video about weaving kente cloth that was so cool.  We made our own kente cloth by weaving colorful paper.  The book "The Spider Weaver" was a lengend that originated in Ghana so we talked a little bit about the country of Ghana.  We are going to make stamps for our passports for Kenya and Ghana since they are two countries our books have focused on during our studies.

We also learned a song about the seven continents that we are going to sing every week at the beginning of class.  

TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)

Preston:
Preston decided to build a robot this week for building and engineering.  His robot was awesome and could stretch to become large or shrink to become a smaller version of itself.  Caleb wanted a robot as well so Preston helped him build a miniature version of the robot he had built.  

Marissa:
Marissa built her kiwi crate this week.  It was about flight.  She built a rocket launcher and rockets and practiced sending them into space in the backyard.  

Caleb:
Caleb built his koala crate this week.  It was all about music.  He built a xylophone and tambourine and also made a ribbon to dance to the music.  We talked about how xylophone starts with the letter x and that there aren't very many words that start with the letter x.  He thought that was awesome! 

OPTIONAL (PE)

Preston:
We are incorporating PE at home until swim lessons for all three kids start next month.  Every morning, we do yoga poses after breakfast before we start our morning basket books.  Preston is also working on running and doing pushups and sit-ups every day.  His older brother is going to the Utah Military Academy and gets a lot of physical activity.  Dylan is helping train Preston to increase his level of physical fitness.  

Marissa:
Marissa participates in yoga every morning with the family.  She also attends her tumbling class once a week and practices tumbling in the backyard every day.  

Caleb:
Caleb participates in yoga every morning with the family.  He loves riding his bike and is trying to learn to balance better so he can ride a bike without training wheels.