April 25 - 29

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston's had his last week of Key of Liberty this week.  He participated in the Constitution Bowl and did a great job demonstrating his knowledge of the Constitution.  He also wrote his final paper for that class.  The topic was "What will you do and what does the Key of Liberty meant to you?"  He did such a good job with his paper and his teacher read his paper for the whole class.  He said it was one of the best parts of the class for him that his teacher liked his class enough to read it for everyone else.  

MARISSA

Marissa went with her class to the Hill Air Force Base Museum as part of their reading of the book "Jacob DeShazer."   They learned a little bit about the history of flight, and had their book discussion afterwards.  

Marissa has gotten excited about drawing again.  This week she drew "Maribel" from Disney's Encanto.  It's so fun to see her excited about projects she chooses.  

CALEB

Caleb's main focus has been reading the past several weeks.  We purchased an app called "Readability Tutor" where he practices reading out loud.  He also reads out loud to me daily.  His fluency is improving so much! 

He also received the Wolverine Mech and was so excited to put that together as part of his building and engineering class.  

April 18 - 22

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston has been working really hard to prepare for his belt test in karate.  He tested as a brown belt and earned his red belt.  There were only five of them testing and it was a really awesome experience.  He has decided to work towards earning his black belt in September, which is a huge commitment of both time and money.  He is so excited and continues to work on his karate skills daily!

MARISSA

Marissa went to a play called "Rising Up" twice this week.  She went the first time with Preston and another time she went with me.  She loved learning about women's suffrage and seeing so many friends she knows sing, dance and act.  

CALEB

Caleb has been working on math, reading, writing and building.  He took a book about dinosaurs to his class on Thursday and read it to several younger kids.  It was so cute!  The book was above his reading ability, but he was so interested in it that he pushed through to get through all the hard words.  We're working on helping him find more and more books he loves so he can continue to progress in his reading ability.  

OTHER

LITTLE MERMAID

We all enjoyed attending Central Davis Junior High's performance of "The Little Mermaid" this week.  Preston's good friend, Owen, played the part of Sebastian.  He did such a great job!

April 4 - 15

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston gave his presentation on George Washington.  He finished his research paper and had the opportunity to present it to his class.  He did such a great job!  Here is a link to his paper and a short clip of a portion of his presentation.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uK7D985dbHKQk_nqHF1U9nc4CKuueg03PL9peUqHoO0/edit?usp=sharing

MARISSA

Marissa got to attend a play with me this week.  We went to see Cinderella at Centerpointe Theater in Centerville.  It was such a cute play and we had a great time!   

CALEB

Caleb and Marissa had their assembly for jump rope.  Marissa was only able to do the skip rope and double dutch because she can't turn an individual rope with her broken wrist. Caleb was so proud of his jump rope skills in front of everyone! 

OTHER

MATH

We started reading "Life of Fred" together as a family again.  We are only on dogs, but we all learn something from it every time we read.  

We also started reading a children's book on Norse Mythology.  It's really interesting and helps us all make sense of the characters in the Marvel Universe and where they originated.