September 17-21

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four lessons in his math book this week.  He is reviewing multiple digit addition, subtraction and also learning skills like measurements on a thermometer.  We played a game that is similar to Chutes and Ladders to review adding, subtracting and counting skills.  It was fun for the whole family!  

Marissa:

Marissa completed four lessons in her math book this week.  She is learning a lot about telling time.  She also is working on the calendar and reviewing basic addition and subtraction.  We played a game that is similar to Chutes and Ladders to review adding, subtracting and counting skills.  It was fun for the whole family!

Caleb:

Caleb worked on his math workbook this week.  He continues to work on number recognition, counting and skip counting.  We played a game that is similar to Chutes and Ladders to review adding, subtracting and counting skills.  It was fun for the whole family!

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed five lessons in his language arts book this week.  He is working on a little bit of spelling and grammar as well as phonics.  He reads to himself as well as reading out loud every day.  He is currently reading Ready Freddy books.  

Marissa:

Marissa completed five lessons in her language arts book this week.  She does not love the dictation portions and spelling, but works on it a little bit at a time.  She loves the readers and continues to practice reading out loud every day as well.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed lessons in his languages arts book this week.  He is reviewing letters and sounds.  He also works on sounding out words.  We play a lot of games to teach reading.  

HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

We read an awesome book called "Africa is Not a Country" that talked about many countries in Africa and how different each one is from the next.  It was very good to help the kids understand that not all countries look alike even though there are some general things we know and understand about the continent of Africa.

We also talked about tribal music and how important the drum is in many cultures in different African countries.  We watched a YouTube video that showed the differences between the congo drum and the djembe drum.  It was really interesting.  Then we made our own music with a kid-sized djembe drum and other instruments that soon came out of the music room.  We wrapped up our awesome class by making djembe drum crafts and eating African doughnuts.  It was a fun week with lots of learning!  

TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)

Preston:

Preston built his Tinker Crate this week.  It was a moving screen machine and it was so much fun!  

Marissa:

Marissa built part of her Kiwi Crate from last week.  She finished learning about flight by building her own kite.  She loved coloring it!  

Caleb:

Caleb was a helper this week for Preston and Marissa during their building projects.  He got his instruments from his Koala Crate back out during our jam session with the drums during geography class and added to our impromptu band.  

OPTIONAL (PE)

Preston:

Preston attended his co-op class at the neighbor's house this week.  They are learning about art and participating in different physical education activities.  He also worked on learning to climb a tree at the park.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her co-op class at the neighbor's house this week.  They are learning about art and participating in different physical education activities as well.  She attended her tumbling class and climbed a tree with the boys at the park.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his co-op class at our neighbor's house this week.  He participated in different physical education activities with the other kids.  He also learned to climb a tree without any help.  I could not believe how high he got so quickly.  We decided he is part monkey.  He now answers to Curious George.  ;)