WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
PRESTON
Preston's favorite thing this week was finishing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." He informed me this is his least favorite of the Harry Potter books so far, but he is still super excited to have finished. He had a goal to read 50 chapter books (which I finally decided was an average of 200 pages per book so we are counting the bigger books as more than one book). He's on the last one that will put him over his goal and earn him a fun Lego set that's been waiting for him in my closet for several months. It's so much fun that he set such a big goal and worked for so long to achieve it!
MARISSA
Marissa's favorite things always include building and creating. We read a fun poem called "A Good Play" that reminded the kids of building forts so Marissa and Caleb built a fort outside and later built one in the house as well. Gotta love it!
CALEB
My favorite thing was putting his building and engineering skills to good use to make a Gingerbread House. He loved every second of it and used every spare candy we had available. The other kids had a great time as well!
OTHER
THANKSGIVING
We read a couple of fun books last week for Thanksgiving. Our two favorite books were "The Plymouth Thanksgiving" and "Squanto's Journey." Another really fun book we read was "Outlaw Thanksgiving."
It was a really weird year for our family this year. Our extended family decided not to get together for Thanksgiving due to Covid and especially thing to protect grandparents and great grandma so our family of six had our very own Thanksgiving. It was fun and delicious...and a little sad. But we made the most of it and played some gratitude games, ate lots of delicious food and read more books. Oh and of course we watched "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" to complete our celebration. ;)
It was a really weird year for our family this year. Our extended family decided not to get together for Thanksgiving due to Covid and especially thing to protect grandparents and great grandma so our family of six had our very own Thanksgiving. It was fun and delicious...and a little sad. But we made the most of it and played some gratitude games, ate lots of delicious food and read more books. Oh and of course we watched "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" to complete our celebration. ;)
ART
Preston got to do a pastel art project as part of language arts. It was pretty fun. Marissa couldn't help getting involved and starting her own art projects.
Marissa ended up creating her own crown. She also took some time to sketch her own inventions, most of which were inspired by her list of chores that she felt was too time consuming. ;) I'm always happy to be part of inspiration and learning!
Marissa got to do a grateful book for language arts this week. It was perfect timing falling the week of Thanksgiving!
Marissa spent time teaching Caleb how to do a backbend. She's training him so he can learn tumbling like big sister.
Caleb worked on more reading and writing skills this week on the Reading Eggs app, his 100 Easy Lessons and writing on his chalkboard. He's doing so well!
Yes, he's wearing his sister's jacket...because it's warm and fuzzy! :)
Another favorite this week was the book "Finding Winnie" which is about the true story of how Winnie-the-Pooh was written. It was such a fun book!
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