MATH
Preston:
Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week. He also worked on increasing his speed with fact practice using addition, subtraction and a few of the multiplication facts he has learned up to this point.
Marissa:
Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week. She used a foam clock to practice finding the exact time on a clock while working on practice learning about time.
Caleb:
Caleb completed two assignments in his math book this week. He got extra practice counting using his on-the-go game book with two dice attached. He loves counting and numbers!
LANGUAGE ARTS
Preston:
Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week. He had an editing assignment as part of one of his lessons. It was such a good exercise for him. It makes him slow down and try to remember all the grammar and spelling rules he has learned up to this point. He missed a couple of small things, but overall, it was a really good part of his language arts lesson that day. I hope more of those are included in the future. If not, I may need to look into something simple for him to work on editing skills in the future.
Marissa:
Marissa completed two assignments in her language arts book this week. She is working on sh, ch and th for phonics and spelling. We took her reading practice really slowly and she caught on just fine. Her dyslexia seems to stress her out when reading out loud, but when we slow things down, she can usually figure out each word and read with increasing fluency. I am looking into potential tools to help her with dyslexia as the reading becomes more and more difficult.
Caleb:
Caleb completed two assignments in his language arts book this week. He also got lots of practice with story telling during his music and nature class with reading about and painting blossoms on a tree. We LOVE his music class and it helps give him extra skills in every subject because it incorporates so much of the world around us. He is in a class called cycles and seasons that focuses on nature, incorporates music and art and includes many beautiful stories and activities. We love it!
HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)
Preston, Marissa & Caleb:
We ended up with sick friends for world geography class this week so we decided to study Japan a little bit more, but save our fun activities for a week we have more people attending class. We read a book called "An Illustrated History of Japan" because I knew that would be a difficult one to complete during a class period with other activities included. It was very informative, but maybe not our favorite part about learning about Japan.
The kids remember the Japan section at the Treehouse Museum and are begging to go back so they can play now that everything is fresh in their mind. I am working on scheduling a field trip, but we may end up with an impromptu one instead.
TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)
Preston:
Preston built a Lego set for building and engineering this week that he received as an Easter gift. It was a smaller set that he has been wanting for a long time, but one he was looking forward to adding to his collection.
Marissa:
Marissa made a geometric bowl this week for building an engineering. She decided not to use geometric shapes that were provided and instead created her own design. It was a really fun project though and she is hoping there is enough material left to create a second one.
Caleb:
Caleb built a little Lego set that he received as an Easter gift this week for building and engineering. It was really small, but he did it all by himself following the instructions on the paper. It was a big boy moment for our little 5 year old for sure!
OPTIONAL (PE)
Preston:
Preston attended karate four times this week. We were able to take him to sparring night because Marissa had a sprained ankle and could not attend tumbling at her regular class time.
Marissa:
Marissa did not attend tumbling this week due to an injury. Instead she chose to watch a documentary about gymnastics that was really interesting for both of us.
Caleb:
Caleb attended karate two times this week. He loves it and the discipline is really good for him even if he gets distracted and loses focus a lot of the time.
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