August 16 - 27

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston finished reading "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings" this week.  He loved it and is looking forward to watching the movie.

MARISSA

Marissa's favorite thing this week was painting during our read aloud of the book "Call it Courage."  She loves to create and finds many opportunities to fit art and creativity into her every day learning.  

CALEB

Caleb finished All About Reading, Level 1 this week.  He's excited to get started with AAR, Level 2 next week.  He earned a Lego set for completing an entire curriculum and spent some time putting that together for his building and engineering class as well.  

OTHER

P.E.

We went on a fun hike in Centerville.  The kids all loved identifying plants and small animals we found along the way.  We saw mushrooms, butterflies, a gray squirrel, humming bird and more.  The kids also LOVED playing on the rope swing when we got to the top! :)

SCIENCE

We went to the zoo for a field trip.  We decided to feed the giraffes because we got there right at feeding time.  It was so cool to see their long tongues reach out to grab the piece of lettuce.  

BIRTHDAY

Caleb turned 8 on August 18.  We celebrated with time swimming.  He decided he wanted to make his own cake this year.  Marissa ended up helping him a little bit, but the two of them made his birthday cake all by themselves.  Pretty amazing!