Max: This week in Math I finished up Area and started on Volume. I think the cups to pints to gallons is kind of tricky to remember and keep straight, but I understand it pretty well. I did my language arts lessons and we are reading a story called The Chipmunk who went to Church. At music class this week I did really well so I got 5 pennies to put in the candy machine at the end of class. My teacher was really pleased with me. I started working on the Bad Piggies theme song on my own (with mom's help) because I like that song. Is is tricky but I am learning a little bit at a time.
Mali: I started reading Ruby the Red Fairy with my mom this week. We are taking turns reading paragraphs. It has a lot of challenging words but I am doing ok. The fairies on the covers of the book are cute. I did my writing/spelling lessons as well and finished up the Hey Diddle Diddle lessons. I am still working on multiplication. I am using Times Tales to help me remember some of the tricker math facts.
M&M: In science we started learning about genetics. We learned about alleles and how there are dominant alleles and recessive alleles. If a dominant allele is present, that trait will show up in the phenotype of the organism. For history we learned about Copernicus and Galileo and how their ideas challenged what people believed at the time. We had a good conversation about how people don't like to have parts of their worldviews challenged and it feels wobbly like a jenga tower.
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