October 6 - 10

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston finished his book he was reading for enjoyment rather than a class this week.  It was "The Trials of Apollo" by Rick Riordan.  Preston has really enjoyed all of the books in the Percy Jackson series as well as the Heroes of Olympus series.  He loves fantasy books, especially this genre with the Greek gods.  I'm so glad he enjoys reading so much!    

MARISSA

Marissa read "Give Me Liberty" by Gene Edward Veith Jr. for her Quest class this week.  She also had a blue book essay test in class about the book.  She gets so nervous for the blue book tests, but she has done amazing demonstrating how much she learned from reading the book.  She learned about Patrick Henry in her Key of Liberty class three years ago so it was fun for her to read a book that went into more detail about him.  She said she really enjoyed it and she loves the courage that he had.  

CALEB

Caleb has been working so hard on his math the past week and a half.  We learned that even though he is able to skip lessons in CTC math when he gets 80% or more on the comprehensive test, that he wasn't really learning the parts that he didn't know.  We decided to have him work through all the lessons even if he already knows most of the material.  It meant a lot of extra lessons he hadn't planned on doing, but he was a champ and worked hard to catch up to where he wanted to be.