October 12 - 16

  WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston's favorite thing this week was creating a game using Scratch coding.  He is having so much fun learning coding!

MARISSA

Marissa's favorite thing this week was learning about Christopher Columbus.  We spent the day reading and watching videos about Columbus.  It was so funny because our Geography sticker book had the Columbus sticker the day after Columbus Day.  Quite a coincidence!  We still love learning little tidbits about the world through this fun little book!  

CALEB

Caleb's favorite thing this week was reading the book "Fate of the Future."  He loves the Tuttle Twins books and thought this one was particularly cool because it was talking about robots taking over the future in a dystopian society.  We learned what a dystopian society and a utopian society means.  These books have opened a lot of higher level conversation in our home.  

OTHER

GEOGRAPHY

In our Beautiful Feet geography study, we learned about saw mills that pull logs off the river and cut them into wood to be used to make homes or other needs.  Caleb was so excited because he remembered a song from Musikgarten called "I Hear the MillWheel" so we spent some time singing and understanding machines and mills in particular.  

FALL

We are spending as much time outdoors as possible this fall.  We have gone on hikes and to pumpkin patches and we also spent a day at a pond.  After our geography day learning about ponds and rivers, we went to a pond to explore what it looks like in the fall.  It was really interesting to observe the changes from spring and summer.  Caleb LOVED every leaf and bush he saw so we ended up with A LOT of pictures for him to look back and see.