September 6 - 10

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston has been reading, listening to and watching Shakespeare like a mad man this week.  They are doing a "Race to Royalty" in his Shakespeare class and he has to read, listen to or watch 17 Shakespeare classes.  He's almost finished and will get crowned king this coming Thursday during class.  He definitely prefers the comedies to the tragedies, but he is learning a lot from both.

MARISSA

Marissa decided to catch up with some more projects from her Doodle Crates and made homemade soap this week.  She did it all by herself and was pretty proud to show me all the different kinds she created.  

CALEB

Caleb created a really cool Lego creation with random pieces this week.  It had moving parts and all sorts of mini figures, but I can't remember them all now.  

We also had some fun reading "Put Me in the Zoo" and "I Want to Be Somebody New" and then creating our own spotted animals.  Marissa and Caleb had a lot of fun using dot markers to make colorful spots on many different pages.  

OTHER

September 11

We spent some time talking about September 11 and what happened on that day.  We discussed different kinds of heroes. I read the transcript from Flight 93 with Preston (the other two are a little too sensitive for those kind of details right now).  It was fun to get pictures from grandma and grandpa who happened to be in Washington D.C. on September 11th this year.  They took a very cool picture of a flag draped over the spot on the Pentagon where the plane crashed as well as a picture of a ceremony with a big flag that was raised using two firetruck ladders.