May 10 - 14

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston had a review section in his language arts book this week.  He reviewed sentence diagramming, run-on sentences, semi-colons, prepositional phrases and spelling words.  He did a great job!  I love that we have found something that is helping him progress in his reading, writing, spelling and grammar without being too all-consuming.  

MARISSA

Marissa finished her language arts book this week and got to move onto a new level.  Reading has been difficult for her to pick up, which affects her writing and spelling as well.  We have decided to move more slowly and go at her own pace and it is making all the difference.  She doesn't worry about which level she is on, but is proud when she accomplishes something big...like finishing a whole book!  

CALEB

Caleb has been focusing mostly on reading and writing, but still attends his Musikgarten class each week and finds time for building for his tech class.  This week, he created a couple of original Lego structures for building and engineering.    

OTHER

SCIENCE/P.E.

We explored rocks and fossils this week while we were in Moab.  We hiked to Delicate Arch for the first time.  It was just Preston, Marissa, Caleb and mom, and we made it (even though we didn't realize Caleb's shoes were way too small for him and his feet were hurting so bad from hiking so long).  It was so much fun to get in some extra outdoor time like hiking and swimming as well as a whole lot of reading!

May 3 - 7

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston built a really cool trap door out of Legos this week.  Here was our attempt at catching it on video.  

MARISSA

Marissa's favorite thing this week was making a tote bag for her tech class.  She is so artistic and creative.  I love how much fun she has creating! 

CALEB

Caleb has been focusing mostly on reading and writing.  We have gone back to an old handwriting book to really practice his letters again.  

OTHER

SCIENCE

We discovered the "Over and Under" books at the Treehouse Museum a couple of years ago, but we didn't realize there were so many of them.  Since we are spending some time working outdoors and trying to get a garden planted, we decided to read some books about nature in different areas.    

NON-FICTION

We are loving reading non-fiction picture books to learn a little bit about a lotto different people.  This week we read "Me...Jane" about Jane Goodall and a book called "Manfish" about Jacques Cousteau.  We really enjoyed them.  We also read a book called "Swirl by Swirl" about shapes in nature and talked a little bit about the Fibonacci sequence and other patterns in nature.  

April 26 - 30

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston wrote a story to describe the picture for his writing workshop this week.  He did a really good job!  

MARISSA

Marissa also had a writing assignment in her language arts book.  She wrote about what she likes about school.  I'm not sure if she was trying to earn something with all the mom flattering, but I'll take it.  ;)

CALEB

Caleb is working really hard on his reading with All About Reading.  Here are a couple of pictures of him reading and working on the word activities.  

OTHER

HISTORY

This week we read a book about the Statue of Liberty.  It talked about how it was a gift from France and also about how it represents freedom, liberty and people coming from all over the world to the USA.  

EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND CHARACTER BUILDING

We found books that might be my new favorite from the library.  I think we will be purchasing these for our home in the future.  They are called "The Good Egg," "The Bad Seed," and "The Cool Bean."  Loved them!