October 8-12

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed five assignments in his math book this week.  He also worked on geometry puzzles with his siblings.  

Marissa:

Marissa completed five assignments in her math book this week.  She also worked on geometry puzzles with her siblings.  She loved creating all sorts of things with the different shapes.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He had lots of fun building the train puzzles with different geometric shapes.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed five lessons in his language arts book this week.  He is progressing really well with spelling, grammar and reading.  

Marissa:

Marissa completed five lessons in her language arts book this week.  She is doing really well with her mini readers and her fluency is improving.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed four lessons in his language arts book this week.  He is still focusing on reviewing letters and sounds.  He loves the games and activities in his language arts book.  

HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

We learned more about aborigines in Australia in our class.  We also learned about many animals that are unique to Australia.  We talked about echidnas and platypuses.  We read lots of books and made echidnas out of playdough.  The kids love learning about animals!  

TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)

Preston:

Preston purchased a Lego set from our family store with money he saved up from doing chores this summer.  He built his Lego set for building and engineering this week.  

Marissa:

Marissa built a Lego friends set we had in our Lego collection for building and engineering.  She loves putting all the rooms and accessories together.  

Caleb:

Caleb helped Preston with his minion set, but mostly was excited to play with the evil minion that Preston built last Christmas.  

OPTIONAL (PE)

Preston:

Preston attended his art and PE co-op class this week.  We ran into some problems with scheduling swimming lessons so we are looking into starting a karate class until we can figure out a better solution for swimming.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended art and PE co-op class this week.  She also attended her tumbling class on Thursday.  She is improving so quickly! 

Caleb:

Caleb attended art and PE co-op class this week.  We are looking into starting karate lessons for Caleb because scheduling swim lessons has not worked out with our schedule and the renovations they had at the pool.