April 13 - 17

MATH

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his math book this week.  He is working on basic multiplication and division.  He gets confused, but we are reviewing the concepts over and over and he is starting to pick up the concept of simple multiplication and division.     

Marissa:

Marissa completed four assignments in her math book this week.  She also completed three lessons on the Math Seeds app this week.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed five lessons on the MathSeeds app this week.  His sister is mad at him because he is two maps ahead of her, but he spends more time on the app than she did and is much more motivated by video game type rewards than Marissa.  Caleb also practiced singing his "Scales and Arpeggios" song for his “Math through Music and Movement” class at ZigArts and watched a YouTube video from his teacher reading a book called "Probability Pistachio."  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Preston:

Preston completed four assignments in his language arts book this week.  He also completed three modules in TTRS (he's getting so good at typing and it really has improved his spelling and reading - I LOVE the curriculum).  He also completed 30 minutes of reading every day.  He is almost finished with "James and the Giant Peach."  

Marissa: 

Marissa completed four assignments in her language arts book this week.  She also completed two modules in TTRS and 20 minutes of reading every day.  She worked on the readers in her language arts as well as finishing another book in the "Deckawoo Drive" series.  

Caleb:

Caleb completed three lessons in his “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” book.  He also read a couple more "Bob" books to continue practicing his reading.  

AMERICAN HISTORY

Preston & Marissa:

Preston and Marissa attended their “Let’s Rock American Government” class over Zoom this week.  They continued their presentation of their bills for votes of the other student legislators.    

Caleb:

Caleb attended his “I Love America” class at ZigArts this week.  He watched a YouTube video from his teacher reading about book called "Roughing it on the Oregon Trail."  He decided he didn't want to draw a wagon and instead just watched the video intently on the iPad.  

ENTREPRENUER (The Art of Business)

Preston, Marissa & Caleb:

The kids practiced a new kind of art called water color resist this week.  We have been sent videos from our "Art of Business" teacher and are trying new things at home to keep working on our art skills and find which types of things we want to sell through our business.  

Marissa called her work of art "A Rainy Sunset"

 

Caleb titled his art "The Rainy Day"

This was Caleb's extra painting that was an abstract work

He calls it "Terrified Storm"

OPTIONAL (Karate, Tumbling, Musikgarten)

Preston:

Preston attended his zoom karate class four times this week.  

Marissa:

Marissa practiced her tumbling on the trampoline.  She also rode her bike and scooter around the neighborhood and to the park.    

Caleb:

Caleb listened to his Musikgarten CD and practiced singing and dancing to the music.   

OTHER

Easter fun!  

Working on the garden together!

Building forts and clubhouses...

Picnics and read-a-loud time when the weather permits.  We're still working on Anne of Green Gables.

New trampoline mat.  Big brother jumped right through the old mat so we ordered a new one and after a few painful days of Caleb living without his tramp therapy, we are back up and running with the trampoline.