Oct 7 - 11

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He is working on learning his multiplication facts for the number 4.   

Marissa:

Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week.  She learned how to borrow with multi-digit subtraction and is catching on really well.   

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his math book this week.  He also attended his "Math through Music and Movement" class at ZigArts.  In his class, the kids learned a new games from the story of Tally O'Malley.  They practiced singing "Tomorrow" and banged rhythm like a drum on the table. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week.  He is learning about prepositions so we read a book called "Over and Under the Snow" that was really cute.  He also completed 30 minutes of reading every day and three modules in TTRS.   

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book this week. She is working on words that end in "ed" and learned that some make the /d/ sound, some made the /ed/ sound and some make the /t/ sound.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments his language arts book this week.  He also attended his "Sing, Read and Write" class and "Storytelling" class at ZigArts.  In Sing, Read and Write, they learned about limericks.  They read some limericks together and noticed rhyming and rhythm patterns, defined words and enjoyed their comedy.   

AMERICAN HISTORY

Preston & Marissa:

Preston and Marissa attended their "Let's Rock American Government" class at ZigArts.  They recited the Pledge of Allegiance, sang the Preamble to the Constitution.  They talked a little bit more about the Electoral College with a TED talk.  Then they got to vote on having smarties or dum dump next week imitating the Electoral College.  Texas was the deciding factor.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his "I Love America" class at ZigArts this week.  They learned about the habit of not procrastinating through the story of the hedgehog and the spelling test.  They read a Native American Tale about the Grand Canyon and talked about Native Americans living in the West, some of their customs, and similarities and differences between their beliefs/stories and some of our own.  They practiced the song "America" in rounds.   

ENTREPRENUER (The Art of Business)

Preston & Marissa: 

Preston and Marissa attended their "Art of Business" class at ZigArts.  They continued learning about shading with lamps/lights out.  They're working on their projects to sell starting in December.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his "Art of Business class at ZigArts.  They painted with leaves today and then painted nature scenes.  Then the kids did their own projects and played with play dough.   

OPTIONAL (Karate, Tumbling, Musikgarten)

Preston:

Preston attended his karate class three times this week.  He loves it and is hoping to be ready for his belt test at the end of November.   

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  She is getting better at landing her whip and tuck more consistently.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his Musikgarten class this week.  They made leaf drawings and a bird feeder to hang outside for the fall.  They sang and danced to lots of fun songs about autumn and nature.  

OTHER

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

We all went on a field trip to Black Island Farm this week.  It was so much fun riding the tractor, picking out a pumpkin and playing lots of fall games!  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her class at Paul Mitchell School of Beauty.  They learned about taking care of their nails and got to choose how to have their nails done by one of the students.  Marissa had so much fun!