Learning Logs: Week 12

Caden: I finished up the unit on Triangles this week. It was so interesting! I like The Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe.
I am reading Rick Riordan's "Red Pyramid." SO AWESOME!! We had a fun class on Fridle and talked about the genre (fiction) and category (middle grade).
We read separate books about the first Thanksgiving and Squanto this week to get ready for Thanksgiving.
I really liked this photo I did this week in my Photoshop class:

It says, "You killed my teddy." "Amara, I am your teddy." "Nooooooo!"

Tessa: I am reading Sew Zoe which is a new series about fashion design and I really like it! I like doing spelling tests and pass them off every week. I'm doing pretty much all the same stuff in math, different adding and subtracting and things, not really learning anything new. I'm still doing my dog walking and teaching the preschool class at my co-op for entrepreneurship and they are both going well! All the kids like my class so much that they asked me to teach again next semester. I'll make about $100 doing that.

Davin: So I'm still listening to Secret Garden and I do spelling every week and usually get my test perfect. I've been working on my report for Damocles in my writing class and it is coming along well. In math it's just about the same stuff I've been doing, like telling time, doing 3D shapes for geometry, and then adding and subtracting multiple digits plus 2-digit multiplication. I liked learning about the first Thanksgiving and I got to read the books out loud so I liked that. For science I am studying cell parts and how cells make up every organism on earth. My favorite song in piano is called Circus Phantom and my teacher says I am learning really quickly!

Koen: We read about pilgrims and Indian. We read mother goose. I did my grammar bin and my math book and my drawing book. I passed off 4 songs in piano and got 4 pennies. We don't have lessons next week.

Learning Logs: Week 11

This week was a pretty normal week. Lots of piano practicing and reading and lessons and co-op.

Caden: In math I learned a lot about triangles and the number 3. In American History I'm studying pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving and we finished our first Rush Revere book. I read Frindle and am listening to the Secret Garden in the car. Our latin word this week was video/visium. In my Photoshop class we did some fun comic pictures:

Tessa: I am so excited! I got chosen as student of the month at the piano academy! Yay, I'm so happy about that. I've been reading A Little Princess and Pollyanna Grows Up. I do latin with Caden. We learned about first aid in my SOS science class and it was really good, but when the teacher talked about stopping bleeding, some of the kids got really queasy. Ha ha. I have liked learning more about the First Thanksgiving and can't wait to have Thanksgiving now! I did a few lessons in my entrepreneurship class and did my spending log. In Bookstore Math I'm still taking orders, adding sales tax, paying bills, etc., and it's so fun.

Davin: In math I'm learning about many-digit subtraction and do lots of story problems. In language arts I'm listening to The Secret Garden and my hardest spelling word is minions! I kept getting it wrong! I liked the Rush Revere book and the next one is going to talk about the Boston Tea Party. I haven't really done tech this week.

Koen: I am finished Peter Rabbit series and reading Mother Goose tales. My reading lessons aren't so fun but I like doing my grammar bin where we learn about letter sounds and they have little objects that start with that letter sound. It's so fun and even my baby sister says "buh" when we ask her what the B says. For my math I am learning the number 10 and the adding facts that make 10 like 6+4 and 5+5 and 7+3 and 8+2. I like my piano lessons a lot. I played piano for a really good piano player at church and he said I'm a natural and and going to be really good. That was exciting! I want to be just like him!

Learning Logs: Week 10

It was a bit of a calmer week for once! We got lots of piano practicing done and worked on our schoolwork and our house! It was nice.

Caden: I'm about a quarter of a way through my math book and it's so fun. I heard about a program called Math Inspirations that I think I want to try. Some of my friends do it and it sounds pretty cool. I read Holes and am reading Frindle now. I got a perfect score on my spelling test and I like my writing class. American History is really cool at my co-op group and my teacher is so awesome. We are talking about the revolutionary war. Piano is going well. We're learning some really fast Christmas songs that are pretty hard. I didn't really do tech class this week.

Tessa: I had a piano recital this week and did really well - there was only one time where I played two notes together instead of just one, but everything else was right. We got giant Hershey bars for a reward. My bookstore math is going great and my CLE math book is boring but fine. My favorite subject is poetry and I love reading Jack Prelutsky - he's so funny. We're reading about the first Thanksgiving in history which is great timing for this month! I'm also typing out my writing class assignments now because they are so long - like 4 pages of handwriting, and now I have to edit them so I just do that on the computer.

Davin - Piano is good, I learn all of my songs really fast. My mom, brother and I started playing a chopsticks trio that is really fun. I am reading Geronimo Stilton and Mr.McBroom and Magic Tree House Thanksgiving on Thursday. For math I'm doing angles and vertices. And I didn't do much tech this week.

Koen: I like my piano lessons and the fun games we play with my teacher. I like doing my adding for math and it's really easy. I am reading about pilgrims and Thanksgiving with my family.

Learning Logs: Week 9

Another fun-filled week is under our belts! The highlight was definitely the Fall family dance hosted by our co-op group. Fun people, great music, and costumes! So great! Caden did a wonderful job as the dance committee chair.

Caden: This week I finished reading Holes and really liked it! My mom said it was word-for-word like the movie but I was able to find several differences, ha! I did a Kano computer challenge for Halloween where they gave out spooky clues to build new things and that was pretty cool. I'm doing good in piano and keeping up with the grownups, so that's good! Our new song is "MaryAnn". And then for math I'm reading Beginner's Guide and also a book called Secrets to Mental math, and now I can tell you the answer to any 2- or 3-digit number multiplied by 11. There is a lot more to learn there though.

Tessa: I am getting ready for my piano recital next Saturday. I'm also learning "Thunder on the Plains". I finished "Pollyanna" and am reading "The Island of Dr. Libris." We learned about the word "phone" in grammar and it is part of the word "symphony" which I didn't know. In math I'm not really learning anything new right now just reviewing stuff. In my tech class I am doing the 2-week budget assignment to see what money comes in and what goes out.

Davin: I'm reading Thea Stilton and the Secret City. My hardest spelling word is minions. We are memorizing the poem "Good Timber." In math I'm back to doing my pet store because we found the missing cards I needed. I'm also learning about addition and subtraction of high-digit numbers. My new piano song is called "Bells Will Ring Soon." I didn't really do my tech class this week.

Koen: I have been drawing circle pies and clocks in my math book learning about circles and breaking them up into even parts. In piano I am working on "Bells Will Ring Soon." And I am still practicing remembering what notes are what. My mom is reading me Robert Munsch books and also Squanto and The Whipping Boy is what we listen to in the car.