Nov 18 - 29

MATH

Preston and Marissa:

Preston and Marissa completed two assignments in their math books.  We are taking a break from our math books to practice drilling and get quicker at math facts.  Preston and Marissa both completed math wrap-ups for addition and subtraction.  They also began working on multiplication memorization using the "Musical Multiplication" curriculum from The Good and the Beautiful.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his math book this week.  He also attended his “Math through Music and Movement” class at ZigArts.  They read a book "How Much is a Million" and learned what it actually means to have a million, a billion, or a trillion of something.  They practiced rhythms with introductions.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed two assignments in his language arts book.  He also read for 30 minutes each day and completed three modules in TTRS three times.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book.  She also read for 20 minutes each day and completed two modules in TTRS two times.    

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also attended his “Sing, Read and Write” and “Storytelling” class at ZigArts.  In "Sing, Read and Write" they reviewed and practiced suing nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.  They also rehearsed their skit.  In "Storytelling" they made a story out of play dough and shared it with the class.  

AMERICAN HISTORY

Preston & Marissa:

Preston and Marissa attended their “Let’s Rock American Government” class at ZigArts this week.  They reviewed the words to the Preamble song and finished discussion about the remaining amendments.  Then they decided on a presentation for the recital.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “I Love America” class at ZigArts this week.  They reviewed the flags they've learned so far and then talked about the next flags, finishing with Utah joining the nation as the 45th Star/State.  They also read about the habit of working together as a team and how that makes 1+1=3.  They also read the Legend of Paul Bunyan and learned a fun hiking echo song about him.  

ENTREPRENUER (The Art of Business)

Preston & Marissa: 

Preston and Marissa attended their “Art of Business” class at ZigArts this week.  They put their logos on their bags.  They had a great time and now have some bags for all o their supplies.  They learned some new techniques for that style of art/projects.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “Art of Business class at ZigArts this week.  They continued their salt dough creations.  The students got to paint their creations from last week.  Caleb made a snake he was so excited to show when he got home.  

OPTIONAL (Karate, Tumbling, Musikgarten)

Preston:

Preston attended his karate class several times.  He had his belt test and belt ceremony.  He was so awesome pushing through even though he was starting to catch something.  He is now a blue belt and so excited to one day become a black belt in karate.    

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class.  She also attended a private lesson.    

Caleb:

Caleb attended his Musikgarten class.  He painted a wooden turkey necklace.  

OTHER

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

The kids have been building A LOT lately.  Even though they don't have a building and engineering class this year, we spend a lot of time creating and building all sorts of different things!  

Nov 11 - 15

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He also watched two episodes of Odd Squad to learn more about math in the real world. 

Marissa:

Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week.  She also watched two episodes of Odd Squad to learn more about math in the real world.  She also practiced real world math with cooking and patterns in nature.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his math book this week.  He also attended his “Math through Music and Movement” class at ZigArts.  They read "Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Week" and worked some more with rhythm and clapping out in 4/4 time with occasional 1/8 and 1/16 beats and practiced the song "Annie" for the performance.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week.  We are really focusing on spelling right now so Preston completed 3-6 modules in Type, Touch, Read and Spell each day.  He is getting really good at typing and his spelling has improved so much!  He also completed at least 30 minutes of reading each day.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book this week.  She is also working on spelling through TTRS.  She completed 2 modules per day.  She also completed 20 minutes of reading each day.  In addition to her regular language arts work, she is preparing for a storytelling audition and hopes to be able to attend the Storytelling Festival at Weber State University this year.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also attended his “Sing, Read and Write” and “Storytelling” class at ZigArts.  They learned five parts of sentences.  They looked at sentences from their skit and evaluated why they chose specific words and punctuation for certain situations.  They introduced adjectives and rehearsed their skit or the recital.  They also used word blocks to create sentences.  They practiced creative collaboration by helping each other create sentences and worked on reading skills with sounding out words.  

AMERICAN HISTORY

Preston & Marissa:

Preston and Marissa attended their “Let’s Rock American Government” class at ZigArts this week.  They reviewed amendments 1-4 of the Bill of Rights and learned about the 5-7 and the Miranda Warning.  

We also watched a video on Brain Pop about Veteran's Day and attended an assembly at the Utah Military Academy honoring veterans.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “I Love America” class at ZigArts this week.  They reviewed the Betsy Ross Flag and Star Spangled Banner Flag and then introduced them to the next flag and talked about Congress passing a bill that all future flags would only have 13 stripes.  They reviewed America, Yankee Doodle, and Star Spangled Banner.  They also read about the habit of listening with your heart and your eyes and your ears.  

ENTREPRENUER (The Art of Business)

Preston & Marissa: 

Preston and Marissa attended their “Art of Business” class at ZigArts this week.  They learned literal inspiration verses non-literal inspiration.  They drew out and cut out letter shapes to be used as stencils for vinyl cutouts that will be pressed on tote bags for art supplies.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “Art of Business class at ZigArts this week.  They made salt dough.  Each of the students took turns stirring the ingredients together.  Then they all made their own salt dough creations.  

OPTIONAL (Karate, Tumbling, Musikgarten)

Preston:

Preston attended six karate classes this week.  He is hoping to be ready for his belt test next weekend.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  She also attended a private lesson working on her tucks and whips.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his Musikgarten class this week.  They made an adorable fall garland and sang more songs about autumn, leaves, nuts and squirrels.  

Nov 4 - 8

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He also practiced multiplication using wrap-ups. 

Marissa:

Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week.  She also practiced addition and subtraction using wrap-ups.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his math book this week.  He also attended his “Math through Music and Movement” class at ZigArts.  They read "Measure for Penny" about various measurements/ways to measure things.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also completed 30 minutes of reading and 3 modules in TTRS every day to practice extra spelling skills.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book this week.  She also completed 20 minutes of reading and 2 modules in TTRS every to give her extra practice with spelling.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also attended his “Sing, Read and Write” and “Storytelling” class at ZigArts.  

AMERICAN HISTORY

Preston & Marissa:

Preston and Marissa attended their “Let’s Rock American Government” class at ZigArts this week.  They practiced the Preamble and did the Pledge of Allegiance.  Then they learned more about the Bill of Rights.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “I Love America” class at ZigArts this week.  They talked about a few of the early presidents of the United States and read through the Preamble to the Constitution.  They reviewed the Star Spangled Banner, America, Yankee Doodle, and America the Beautiful.  

ENTREPRENUER (The Art of Business)

Preston & Marissa: 

Preston and Marissa attended their “Art of Business” class at ZigArts this week.  They did another watercolor paint lesson.  They talked about how to create a stained-window effect with the tape and watercolor.  

They have been drawing more at home to get more practice with their arts skills and create pieces to sell.  They spent one evening drawing "Pokemon" characters.  They did a really good job with them! 

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “Art of Business class at ZigArts this week.  They had another dot painting lesson, but this time clustered together several Q-tips and painted on trees to create a Fall leaf effect.  

OPTIONAL (Karate, Tumbling, Musikgarten)

Preston:

Preston attended his karate class this week.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his Musikgarten class this week.  They made adorable snail drawings and sang a song about a snail.  

Oct 28 - Nov 1

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He is practicing multiplication up through 7's.  Preston also attended Astro Camp this week, where he got to work on engineering and math skills to solve a real life problem.  His team took first place.  They were able to have 5 energy transfers, use 3 simple machines, complete a presentation about their invention and have it actually work.  It was so much fun for him to take first place in a field that really interests him. 

 

Marissa:

Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week.  Marissa is reviewing time and money.  Marissa also attended Astro Camp this week.  Her team took second place.  I couldn't believe that out of 6 or 7 teams, my two kids were in the first and second place teams.  Her team did amazing, but their machine didn't work the final time they tried it (during the presentation).  However, they managed to have 5 energy transfers, use 3 simple machines and had an incredible presentation, landing them in second place for the day.  So much fun! 

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his math book this week.  He also attended his “Math through Music and Movement” class at ZigArts.  They practiced 1/2 beats, 1/4 beats, 1/8 beats, and rests through some Halloween words.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also completed 30 minutes of reading and three modules in TTRS each day.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book this week.  She also completed 20 minutes of reading each day and two modules in TTRS.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also attended his “Sing, Read and Write” and “Storytelling” class at ZigArts.  In "Sing, Read and Write," they reviewed nouns and verbs with their "Grammar Grooves" songs.  Then they read some limericks from "A Child's Introduction to Poetry" and reviewed the rhyming structure.  

AMERICAN HISTORY

Preston & Marissa:

Preston and Marissa attended their “Let’s Rock American Government” class at ZigArts this week.  They practiced the Preamble and did the pledge of Allegiance.  Then they did an overview of The Bill of Rights and watched a fun Disney video of different scenes from their shows that illustrate the Bill of Rights in the classroom.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “I Love America” class at ZigArts this week.  They talked about the habit of thinking Win-Win with he story of the skunk and the Garden and read a book about the importance of honesty.  They also read about the history of several Halloween traditions - costumes, trick-or-treating, pumpkins, witches, orange and black - and learned a lot about the mixture of cultures that makes America what it is.  

ENTREPRENUER (The Art of Business)

Preston & Marissa: 

Preston and Marissa attended their “Art of Business” class at ZigArts this week.  They worked with watercolors and tape.  They loved it and were so excited to show me their completed artwork when they got home.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “Art of Business class at ZigArts this week.  They made handprint spiders and footprint ghosts for Halloween.  This is another project the kids can apply to various art themes to sell at the December recital.  

OPTIONAL (Karate, Tumbling, Musikgarten)

Preston:

Preston attended his karate class three times this week.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  She also attended a private lesson where she was able to connect a whip, 5 back handsprings and a tuck on the trampoline.  It was a super exciting week for progress in tumbling!

Caleb:

Caleb attended his Musikgarten class this week.  He painted a pumpkin and sang lots of spooky songs.