WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
PRESTON
Preston read "A Single Shard" for his book discussion this week. He also completed a presentation in his Key of Liberty class. His presentation was about Loyalists, Tories, Hessians and Redcoats and their role in the Revolutionary War. He used the game Risk to show the different groups of people and what they did. It was pretty good! He told me afterward that he felt like the speaking part of his presentation was better this time (than his first presentation) but his creativity using stop motion was better in the first presentation and only kind of creative using the Risk game. I like that he's thinking of ways to improve since he has one more presentation to do for his Shakespeare class in December.
MARISSA
Marissa worked on language arts and math quite a bit this week. She wrote an acrostic poem about birds and copied a poem in cursive for her handwriting. She also memorized a cute poem called "The Dragonfly" but for some reason blogger doesn't like the movie files I am trying to upload at the moment. :/
CALEB
Caleb has been focusing a lot on reading and writing this week. He practiced adding a silent "E" to words in his phonics program this week. He also learned the first stroke in his cursive program, which they call "climb the hill and hold." We're taking it really slowly because he struggles with fine motor skills, but we're excited for this writing program.
OTHER
MATH & SCIENCE
We have been loving Generation Genius. After lunch, we often watch one of the videos in math and/or science to take a bit of a break from written work.
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