September 13 - 17

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston has been working on reading and writing assignments this week.  He finished reading "Red Scarf Girl" and also completed a few writing assignments for his "Key of Liberty" and "Shakespeare" classes as well as writing assignments in his Language Arts book.  

MARISSA

Marissa has been working hard on memorizing times tables.  We got a program called Times Tales to help her retain them better.  It has proven to be a really good fit.  Not only does she really enjoy the program, it's actually helping her to learn and memorize her facts.  She didn't even mind a timed test, which is usually a cause for a lot of stress and anxiety.  

CALEB

Caleb LOVES math!  He does MathSeeds, has a couple of workbooks, plays all sorts of math games, reads Life of Fred with the family and other math books and overall just really enjoys and follows the concepts of mathematics really well.  This week he worked on completing lessons in MathSeeds.  He also created a drawing on a chalkboard and demonstrated the similarities using a ven diagram.  He LOVES board games and strategy and even though he's the youngest in the family, can hold his own when it comes to competitive math games.  

OTHER

BIG LIFE JOURNAL

We started using Big Life Journal.  Marissa is using the kid version, Preston has the teen version and Caleb is working with me on separate sheets of paper until his writing is a little bit more advanced.  We've been listening to the Big Life Podcast and then completing the journal pages that go along with it.  The kids LOVED listening to the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay.  We ended up getting a book from the library to read as well.  Marissa and Caleb also ended up making their own creation using recycled materials.  They made a fancy bird hotel, with several perching areas, nesting areas and feeding places.