January 14 - 18

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four lessons in his math book this week.  He is working on rounding, measurements and adding and subtracting money. 

Marissa:

Marissa completed four lessons in her math book this week.  She is learning add multi-digit numbers right now.  She is also reviewing skip counting by 2, 5 and 10. 

Caleb:

Caleb completed two lessons in his math book this week.  He loves math and is really good at figuring out the answer before I finish reading the question to him. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four lessons in his language arts book this week.  He learned how to edit a story this week.  He did a great job with it once he caught on to the different symbols used.  It helped him pay more attention to whether or not a sentence started with a capital letter, had a period at the end or used commas in a sequence.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four lessons in her language arts book this week.  She is still extremely nervous about being timed for the different reading assessments so we have started reading them for fun instead of with a timed goal in mind.  She reads much faster without the pressure of needing to complete a page in a certain amount of time. 

Caleb:

Caleb completed two lessons in his language arts book this week.  We continue to focus on handwriting and fine motor skills since his understanding of letters and their sounds is quite solid, but he needs extra practice holding a pencil and forming letters and numbers.  

HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

We continued to learn about Antarctica for World Geography this week.  The kids love learning about all the animals so that has been our focus this month.  They got to choose their favorite animal to paint after we read several books and watched a YouTube video.  It was fun to see their creations!   

Caleb's penguin

Preston's orca

Marissa's penguin

TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)

Preston:

Preston built a Mech from a Lego Ninjago book he got for Christmas for building and engineering class this week.  He had to use pieces he already owned for some of his creations, but he was able to put together many of the ideas from the book.  He had a great time!  

Marissa:

Marissa finished the other half of her kiwi crate this week.  She built a hungry hungry "tiger" that opens and shuts its mouth using a pendulum.  She had so much fun playing with it!

Caleb:

Caleb made a snowflake and played a song about snowflakes in his music class this week.  He had so much fun learning more about winter!

OPTIONAL (PE)

Preston:

Preston attended his karate class four times this week.  He is getting so good!  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  She really looks forward to her class and is progressing well.   

Caleb:

Caleb attended his karate class twice this week.  He loves karate!