September 24-28

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four lessons in his math book this week.  He is reviewing multiple digit addition and subtraction. 

Marissa:

Marissa completed four lessons in her math book this week.  She is working on addition and subtraction. 

Caleb:

Caleb worked on his math workbook this week.  He continues to work on number recognition, counting and skip counting. 

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.  

Marissa:

Marissa completed five lessons in her language arts book this week.  She is really enjoying a living education approach to language arts.    

Caleb:

Caleb completed lessons in his languages arts book this week.  He is reviewing letters and sounds.  He also works on sounding out words. 

HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

This was our last week studying Africa.  We read a book called "One Hen."  It talked about a boy who got a loan to purchase a hen so he could sell the eggs and make money to go to school.  It was a good book about giving as well as being an entrepreneur. 

We also read a book called "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" and another book called "Anasi and the Talking Melon."  We talked about legends and storytelling in Africa.   We ate African rice and beans from Nigeria for lunch. 

We visited the Tree House Museum to play with their Africa display for a field trip this week.  The elephants were the favorite, but Marissa loved setting up the huts and creating a village in Africa.

It's been so much fun learning about Africa!  The kids are so excited to see where our continent hopping takes us next!!

TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)

Preston, Marissa and Caleb:

Preston, Marissa and Caleb all built with Lego's this week.  They made a city and also tried to copy patterns of flags from countries in Africa out of one of our books about Africa.

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.  We are hoping to start swim lessons in two weeks.  It has been tricky to figure out the schedule due to remodeling at Weber State.  

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 as well.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his co-op class at the neighbor's house this week.  They are learning about art and participating in different physical education activities.  We are hoping to start swim lessons in two weeks.  It has been tricky to figure out the schedule due to remodeling at Weber State.