MATH
Preston:
Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week. He also watched two episodes of Odd Squad and practiced counting money.
Marissa:
Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week. She also watched Odd Squad to get some extra practice with math concepts and did some money counting as part of her math assignments.
Caleb:
Caleb completed two assignments in his math book this week. He also sorted money and worked on counting for his dice board game.
LANGUAGE
ARTS
Preston:
Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week. He is working on homophones, commas in a series and spelling words in the EA family.
Marissa:
Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book this week. We discovered that timing her reading was giving her quite a bit of anxiety so we have switched to untimed reading for the foreseeable future. She is working on blend words and doing quite a bit of work with nouns and verbs for grammar. She also wrote in her creative writing journal and drew pictures to go along with what she wrote.
Caleb:
Caleb completed two assignments in his language arts book this week. He loves letters and their sounds. He played a letter sound game hopping from letter to letter while he said sounds and then put sounds together to make beginning words. He also did handwriting practice with letters, but still needs a lot of help to hold the pencil correctly and form letters.
HISTORY
(WORLD GEOGRAPHY)
Preston,
Marissa & Caleb:
We learned about Antarctica this week for world geography class. We read a couple of books about the climate and animals in Antarctica and then spent the rest of our class learning about penguins. We watched a YouTube video about an emperor penguin hatching and learned how mothers go off to feed while fathers care for the egg and baby penguin, then mothers come back to feed the penguin chick while fathers leaves for several months to feed. The kids loved it! We also watched a YouTube video about the different species of penguins and where they live. It was extremely helpful to see on a map where the different kinds of penguins live and why some are adapted to colder weather and others are not. We made a penguin craft and then the younger kids had spontaneous waddling races in sleeping bags and pretended to explore Antarctica in the snow in the backyard. Later in the week, Caleb surprised me by getting out the art supplies and bringing down a picture he drew of a penguin. Apparently learning about penguins in Antarctica was a success!
TECH
(BUILDING & ENGINEERING)
Preston:
Preston completed his tinker crate this week. It was a sketch machine that was basically a homemade etch-a-sketch. Trying to figure out how to tie all the strings properly to move the marker up and down at the right time was tricky, but it was super cool to use once we figured it out.
Marissa:
Marissa completed her kiwi crate this week. It was all about pendulums. She made a pendulum bird feeder. It was a really fun project for her.
Caleb:
Caleb completed his koala crate this week. It was a crate about dinosaurs. He made a dinosaur costume and also his own air dry clay fossils. He LOVED it! We ended up checking out and reading lots of books on dinosaurs over the week as well as raiding our personal shelves for every dinosaur-related book we could find.
OPTIONAL
(PE)
Preston:
Preston attended karate class three times this week. He loves his class and is learning the katas he will need to know for his belt test in March.
Marissa:
Marissa attended tumbling this week. She continues to work on back handsprings, back tucks and back whips.
Caleb:
Caleb attended karate class two times this week. He is really learning discipline and focus, and enjoys loud shouting, kicking and punching.
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