January 20 - 24

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He is working on multiplication and finding area for squares and rectangles.  He is also reviewing multi-digit addition and subtraction.   

Marissa:

Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week.  She is working on learning carrying and borrowing for multi-digit addition and subtraction.  

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 another MathStart Level 2 book called "The Magic Elevator" and practiced some simple subtraction mental math skills.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also completed three modules each day in TTRS and read for 30 minutes every day.  He is working on the 3rd Box Car Children book, but also read story books to Caleb several times.  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book this week.  One of her assignments was a study about an artist using nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe the painting.  Then she was given the opportunity to create her own work of impressionist art using dots or dabs to create it.  She LOVED this assignment.  I love how language arts often incorporates language, art and music to create an overall well-rounded experience.  This was her creation.  She wanted to do more.  Because of it, Caleb ended up creating his own painting of a dragon just because it sounded fun.  

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 reviewed grammar parts with a mad lib.  One of the Penguins in our "Mr. Popper's Penguins" book is named after the explorer  Captain Cook, who chartered the north and south poles.  They read about the actual man Captain James Cook and the differences between the north and south poles.  

AMERICAN HISTORY

Preston & Marissa:

Preston and Marissa attended their “Let’s Rock American Government” class at ZigArts this week.  They talked about the complexities of implementing laws - who do they affect, who is going to implement them, how is that going to look, is it going to break any of our Bill of Rights, etc.  Then students had to talk to the other "legislators" in the group and try to find someone willing to sponsor their bill.  

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “I Love America” class at ZigArts this week.  They talked about the three branches of government and checks and balances.  They ran through a few scenarios and had the students role play each of the branches of government.  They also talked about how the power lies with the people and how the people are more powerful than the President.  They listened to a fun son in "Take Your Hat Off When the Flag Goes By" about how the branches of government keep each other in check.  

ENTREPRENUER (The Art of Business)

Preston & Marissa: 

Preston and Marissa attended their “Art of Business” class at ZigArts this week.  They finished their sculptures today.  For their business minute, they talked about closing items to sale in terms of how useful they are and paying attention to the details of the design and being neat and creating something nice.   

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “Art of Business class at ZigArts this week.  They made chalk drawings on black construction paper.  They learned how to mix and blend different colors of chalk together to create a new color.  

OPTIONAL (Karate, Tumbling, Musikgarten)

Preston:

Preston attended his karate class three times this week.  

Marissa:

Marissa attended her tumbling class this week.  She still has her splint on, but is able to use her left wrist a little bit during tumbling again.  Hopefully the splint will be off by next week.   

Caleb:

Caleb attended his Musikgarten class this week.  They talked about snow and building a snowman and sang fun songs about winter.