May 6 - 10

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book.  He is currently reviewing perimeter and learning more about finding the area of a square with simple multiplication.   

Marissa:

Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week.  She is reviewing numbers up to 1,000 in preparation for more complex addition and subtraction problems.  She is also learning simple multiplication.

Caleb:

Caleb completed two assignments in his math book this week.  He was also given an Osmo Genius Kit for our iPad and had a lot of fun playing games using Tangrams and numbers to add to his math work this week.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book.  He worked on some editing skills, art appreciation and poetry this week.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed two assignments in her language arts book this week.  She is still working on words with "sh," "th," and "ch."  

Caleb:

Caleb completed two assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also played the Osmo "words" game on iPad after we got it loaded and figured it out.  The words were kind of hard for him, but I'm going to find some more simple words to upload for his level.  

HISTORY (WORLD GEOGRAPHY)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

We attended a cinco de Mayo party at our neighbor's house for world geography this week.  They had a lot of cultural experiences available plus a bounce house, pinata and plastic sombreros.  So much fun learning about Mexico again.  

TECH (BUILDING & ENGINEERING)

Preston:

Preston built his Tinker Crate this week for building and engineering.  It was a circuit light and was really fun to put together.  We built it at the park so it is hard to see the green light, but it lights up really cool when we take it in a dark room.   

Marissa:

Marissa built her Kiwi Crate this week for building and engineering.  Hers was all about whales so she built a sweeper machine and later painted whales to attach to it.  It is AWESOME!  It actually picks up pom poms and little Legos from the floor.  The kids all had fun cleaning up using the sweeper machine this past week.   

Caleb:

Caleb finished his Koala Crate this week.  He made a butterfly puppet to go along with his study of the Rainforest.   

OPTIONAL (PE)

Preston:

Preston attended karate three times last week.  He will take his next belt test in June and hopefully be an orange belt by the fall.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  She is considering joining the comp team in the fall.  

Caleb:

Caleb played on his bike, jumped on the trampoline and went to the park for PE this week.