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Nov 2-8

Language Arts: Kingston read the first page of a Boxcar Children book with Mom. Kennedy is also reading Boxcar Children books. Both also did the IRI reading test online. Kennedy did some spelling games on ABCya.com. Kingston played a word blend game on ABCya.com. He is learning -ing words in our books.

Math: They played math games. The treefrog game teaches fractions. The fuzz buzz game teaches sorting, counting and comparing numbers. There is another fuzz buzz game that requires problem-solving and thinking as they try to match the pattern given.

Social Studies: We read in Story of the World about the pilgrims, the Mayflower, and Plymouth Plantation colony. We also read about New Netherland that becomes New York.

Science: A deer walked through our street and we talked about why a deer would be here. We read/learned about the formation of the earth's crust by volcanoes.


Tech/Trep: Kennedy taught Kingston to play Roblox. Kingston loves making mountains and tunnels. Kennedy talked about building robots with her dad. They started planning how to build a round ball-shaped robot.


Elective: Kennedy and her dad built a fire. We got a basketball hoop. Kennedy and Kingston practiced shooting hoops. Kennedy made quite a few. Kingston made a few too. Kennedy looked at art by Rembrandt, a Dutch artist. "I like the paintings of himself."






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