May 13 - 17

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He also completed his end-of-year testing for Study Island.

Marissa:

Marissa completed two assignments in her math book this week.  She also completed end-of-year testing for Study Island.

Caleb:

Caleb completed two assignments in his math book this week.  He also got really excited about complex geometric shapes that he learned about on the show Team Oomi Zoomi.  He could not stop talking about a dodecahedran.  He even pointed one out at the park (although I'm not sure it was actually a dodecahedran, but it made for interesting conversation with his older siblings.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week. He also started working on his creative writing journal again and completed end-of-year testing for Study Island.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed two assignments in her language arts book this week.  She is doing a lot of extra reading practice right now.  She also completed end-of-year testing for Study Island.   

Caleb:

Caleb completed two assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also worked on writing letters and simple words.  

HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

We took a field trip with our friends to The Treehouse Museum this week.  It was fun to see so many countries we have studied over the year.  We spent some time playing in Japan and China, the two most recent countries we have been studying.  

We also read a couple more books about China that we really liked.  

TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)

Preston:

Preston made an awesome castle out of blocks this week.  He started off with the idea of making something Chinese, but ended up with a castle.  Marissa ended up helping at the end so she got in for the picture. 

Marissa:

Marissa built an amazing house out of magna-tiles with her friend this week.  It was two stories high, had a staircase and a balcony. 

Caleb:

Caleb built a mech out of building materials this week for building and engineering.  He has named it five different times so I didn't know what to call it here, but I'm going with the first name of mech.  😉

OPTIONAL (PE)

Preston:

Preston attended his karate class three times this week.  He is going to take karate for one more month until his belt test and then take a break from karate until the fall.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  She decided she will be joining Velocity Tumbling's competition team this year so she will attend tumbling two days a week through the summer and continue into the fall.  It's going to be busy for all of us!   

Caleb:

Caleb played outside on climbing structures at the park, on the trampoline, rode his bike and scooter and had Nerf gun wars with his friends in the neighborhood for PE this week.   

OTHER

Preston:

Preston had his piano recital this week.  It was less formal than in the past, but he still practiced to prepare for his performance.  He did an AWESOME job!  

Preston, Marissa and Caleb:

We went to the Dinosaur Park this week for a field trip.  We missed the crazy rain, but ended up there on a day that the entire world was there.  We still managed to have a great time!  Caleb was thrilled and told us the name of each dinosaur and what he knows about each one before we even read the signs.  It was so much fun!