October 7 - 11

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston completed a really cool project in PhotoShop this week for his Digital Media Arts class.  He had to turn a black and white photo into a color photo.  It was so much work and took him quite a bit of time, but he really enjoyed the project! He learned so much about PhotoShop that he would not have learned without this class.  

MARISSA

Marissa LOVES art!  She can often be found sketching or painting when she has some time to spare.  She works on language arts, math, piano and reading, and then finishes any assignments she has for any of her specific classes.  After that, she often turns to arts and crafts for extra learning.  Here are a few of her most recent paint projects.  

  

CALEB

Caleb learned a little bit about the science of cooking for the science portion of his Ninja Scholars class this week.  He learned that vegetables turn out better if they are cut and salted first to allow them to sweat and release some of the excess water first.  He did two separate sautee dishes to experiment and sure enough, the squash with salt on it turned out less mushy and soggy.  

The only thing we realized he didn't account for was using a different pan for each dish since we cooked them at the same time.  So that may have been a contributing factor.  We still think the experiment was pretty conclusive.