Week 29

We had a blast this week playing in the snow!  We built a snowman and then had a snowball fight!    Good thing we did it when we did because within an hour all the snow was completely melted and gone!! 



 Erik's Koala Crate was about Dinosaurs and reptiles... Grrr!!!  We had fun with making his costume and
Eli's Tinker Crate was working with light and he wired up this cool spinner light!  The kids all loved it and had fun playing with it in the dark.

Ivy, Emmitt and Erik all made creations around reptiles and dinosaurs.  We read our dinosaur book and watched videos on reptiles and dinos.  Not my favorite topic but the kids enjoyed it!
Emmitt worked on his Kiwi crate with his friends.  It has to be redone as we must've missed a step.  It's supposed to be a manual little vacuum thingy but it doesn't spin.

Eli keeps up on his math and handwriting every morning and is doing great!  He's on lesson 8 of his language arts book and is able to do a lot of it on his own.  He also was super stoked to get a library card this week and checked out the The Spiderwick Chronicles book 1.

Ivy worked on her math and her handwriting.  She really wants to be a better writer so we're focusing on this more.  I found we've had a bit of a disconnect as her handwriting doesn't match anything with her current reading lessons so now, I take sentences from her reading lessons and she practices writing those.  It's been very good and helpful for her.  Her reading lessons are also going very well.  She finished lesson 37 in her All About Reading.

Emmitt is coming along with his language arts.  He's getting more familiar with letters and sounds.  He knows "a" and "o" vowel sounds really well, but still struggles with "i" and "e".    He's been playing Teach Monster which is a cute learning app that I downloaded on my phone.  We've been reading a book he really likes on numbers.  His buddy comes over two days a week to study with us, which is fun!

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