Week 13 - Mali

Language Arts: We did some Reading Eggs. We did some language arts lessons. We watched Leapfrog letters and some of our Rusty & Rosy dvds. We got a small portable DVD player to watch our educational videos on and it’s really nice to have.

Math: We practiced addition and counting. We made shapes out of our Spielgaben cuboids.

Tumbling & Trampolining: We practiced our mat skills and trampoline skills. Our teacher keeps saying we will try and climb the long rope hanging from the ceiling but we haven’t done it yet.

Other: At co-op we learned about Arches National Park and how the arches were formed. We did finger painting and painted pictures of the arches. We also learned about fish and watched a video about the frogfish. They are really weird looking and interesting. At home for science we learned about center of gravity and how that affects how things can balance. We balanced potatoes on glasses using forks as counterweights. My mom got balance birds for all of us and those are really fun to play with.

Spielgaben camera

Very tall cuboid giraffe

Arches National Park - Fingerpainting by me

Another Arches fingerpainting by me

Science with balancing birds

Balancing potato

Staying warm before the movie started

Week 13 - Max

Language Arts: We did some Reading Eggs. We did some language arts lessons. We watched Leapfrog letters and some of our Rusty & Rosy dvds. We got a small portable DVD player to watch our educational videos on and it’s really nice to have.

Math: We practiced addition and counting. We made shapes out of our Spielgaben cuboids.

Tumbling & Trampolining: We practiced our mat skills and trampoline skills. Our teacher keeps saying we will try and climb the long rope hanging from the ceiling but we haven’t done it yet.

Other: At co-op we learned about Arches National Park and how the arches were formed. We did finger painting and painted pictures of the arches. We also learned about fish and watched a video about the frogfish. They are really weird looking and interesting. At home for science we learned about center of gravity and how that affects how things can balance. We balanced potatoes on glasses using forks as counterweights. My mom got balance birds for all of us and those are really fun to play with.

Science with balancing birds

Balancing bird

Practicing addition

More addition -- with giant CHECKS for each problem

built my full name with our new letters

My drawing of a Minecraft Creeper

My Spielgaben camera

A cuboid giraffe

My fingerpainting of Arches

Another fingerpainting of Arches

Balancing Potato

Mali - Week 12

Language Arts: We did some lessons in our Language Arts program this week, which including reviewing letters and sounds, short and long vowel sounds, identifying sounds at the beginning and ends of words.

Math: We practiced counting and identifying numbers 11-20. We reviewed what a penny and a nickel are worth.

Tumbling & Trampolining: We practiced our bridges. We also practiced our different jumps. See videos below of me doing my jumps on the 3 part trampoline.

Other: We discussed how birds fly and why it doesn’t work for humans to try and fly like birds do. We don’t have big enough muscles to be able to overcome our weight. At co-op we learned about birds and the different kinds of nests they make. We got to make our own sort of bird nest for an activity.

My bird's nest

I made a foil boat

At co-op

Working on a foil crafting project

Max - Week 12

Language Arts: We did some lessons in our Language Arts program this week, which including reviewing letters and sounds, short and long vowel sounds, identifying sounds at the beginning and ends of words.

Math: We practiced counting and identifying numbers 11-20. We reviewed what a penny and a nickel are worth.

Tumbling & Trampolining: We practiced our bridges. We also practiced our different jumps. See videos below of me doing my jumps on the 3 part trampoline.

Other: We discussed how birds fly and why it doesn’t work for humans to try and fly like birds do. We don’t have big enough muscles to be able to overcome our weight. At co-op we learned about birds and the different kinds of nests they make. We got to make our own sort of bird nest for an activity.

At the curiosity museum

Writing/reading practice

We made this pixel 3D-looking cube

My bird's nest

Week 11 - Mali

Language Arts: We practiced letters and letter sounds. We practiced reading words from the -at word family.

Math: We practiced sorting items into groups. We practiced counting and did some simple addition problems.

Tumbling & Trampolining: Class was cancelled this week because it was Halloween.

Other: Trick or treating was fun. We dressed up in the giant heads for our costumes and went trick or treating with our older brother and our mom and dad. Our grandpa took us to the movie Smallfoot. We learned about bats at co-op and also about the excretory system including the bladder.

My pumpkin. My aunt helped me with it. 

Sorting the horses

My unicorn costume

Digging a hole with my brother

Week 11 - Max

Language Arts: We practiced letters and letter sounds. We practiced reading words from the -at word family.  I read a bunch of words with the word making cards and identified which ones were real words.

Math: We practiced sorting items into groups. We practiced counting and did some simple addition problems.

Tumbling & Trampolining: Class was cancelled this week because it was Halloween.

Other: Trick or treating was fun. We dressed up in the giant heads for our costumes and went trick or treating with our older brother and our mom and dad. Our grandpa took us to the movie Smallfoot.

My jack o lantern. My uncle and mom helped me carve it.

A cool rock I found.

Digging a hole

Sorting items and matching the number of items with number cards

Making and reading words

Me as SpongeBob and my mom as Patrick

I made the Jurassic World sign