May 9 - 13

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston has been working on two piano pieces for his piano recital.  Unfortunately, our trip to Moab overlapped with the piano recital so he performed for his teacher and she recorded it for our family.  

Preston has also been reading Ranger's Apprentice and is loving the series.  He just finished the second book in the series and can't wait to start the third.  

MARISSA

Marissa also played her recital piece.  It was adapted for her to be fully played with her right hand while her left hand healed from the break.  She played the first section alone and the second section was a duet with her teacher.  

Marissa has also been reading a series called "Zoe's Rescue Zoo."  She's loving them!  

CALEB

Caleb's been working on his piano pieces as well.  He has two songs that work on his fingers crossing over with both the right hand and the left hand.  He's doing such a great job! 

Caleb has been reading an easy reader series called "Golly and Bink," "Poppleton," "Henry and Mudge," and "Ting and Ling."  They have been a lot of fun for him to read! 

OTHER

MOAB

Our family had a great time in Moab this week!  We visited Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. We spent most of our time hiking, swimming, camping and reading lots of books!  

May 2 - 6

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston's biggest focus this week was on his Shakespeare Play.  They performed a version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with a Mexican theme.  He was Fernando and had the coolest costume ever.  He had three hour rehearsal Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, a full dress rehearsal on Thursday and performances Friday night, Saturday matinee and Saturday night.  So much work, but it was AMAZING!

MARISSA

Marissa has started a new type of schooling.  We have a puppy who is four months old named Indigo (Indie for short).  It was actually big brother's puppy, but he is too busy with work to have time for her so we are now going to be her owners.  We signed her up for puppy training classes.  Marissa goes with me to training every week and works with her daily.  She loves animals and wants to be either a nurse or a vet when she grows up, so having a new animal to teach and play with has been so much fun for her.  

Marissa has also been learning to sew.  She inherited a sewing machine table from her great great grandma and she has been learning on that.  It's so great to watch her create things she loves!

CALEB

Caleb and Marissa also got to help with the Shakespeare play this week.  We were in charge of concessions.  They helped me package popcorn bags, candy bags and rebrand water bottles.  They helped county inventory and add up money we made on sales each night.  It was really good practice for running a business (even though the proceeds went to the Shakespeare class for their performance next year).  

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.  

 

March 28 - April 1

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston finished writing his hero report for his Key of Liberty class.  It was a research paper with a least two book sources and had to be at least 2 1/2 pages single spaced.  It really pushed Preston, but he did a great job.  He chose to do his report on George Washington.   

He also started rehearsals for Shakespeare and is doing a great job memorizing his lines. 

MARISSA

Marissa has been working on her reading, language arts and math more this week.  She did a lot of reading and memorized a poem called "Dragonfly." 

CALEB

Caleb has really been working on reading, phonics and handwriting this week.  He is getting so much better at holding his pencil and carefully forming shapes and letters.  

OTHER

CUP STACKING

Caleb and Marissa have been cup stacking to work on some building and engineering skills for their tech class.  They love it and have gotten quite good at recognizing properties that make a structure more sound.