2nd to Last Week

A1 worked really hard and finished all of his math review this week. We had a donut party to celebrate.

LA: More typing and reading and writing. A1 also compared and contrasted different DND characters.  He then picked one to research further into what the character could do as it leveled up. He made a chart to explain it and wrote a paper on it.  I love that he can pick a topic he's interested in and use that to learn important language art skills.

Science: Here are more crazy facts A1's has learned: 

Getting Closer to the End of School

Love note from A2

Math: We finished the last unit. We have a couple of weeks of review and then math is complete.

Language Arts: Reading and typing.

Science: Videos...

Shoutout to an awesome kid!

First off, a huge shoutout to A1 for being an amazing student. This week both of his OpenEd Club teachers gave him shoutouts for how kind and respectful he is in their classes.  From his chess coach:  

(He) deserves a MASSIVE shout-out today! He absolutely crushed it in Chess Tournament Club!  He played an amazing tournament and was just as impressive in the chat—kind, helpful, and constantly lifting others up. He brought skill, sportsmanship, and great energy all at once. Seriously awesome job!

Easter

We were going to take spring break the first week in April for Holy Week. A1 and A2 ended up being really sick all that week, so neither school or a break happened.  K and J had school off and they ended up having lots of fun without us.

Last Week of March

Math- triangle angles

Language Arts highlight: A1 helped A2 with some reading and writing. He was a patient teacher. He also did typing and reading.

Science- Videos: weird noises from the ocean.

Did you know there are mysterious sounds coming from the ocean? I am going to note that some of the sounds do not sound like their name. The bloop was a very confusing sound and no one knew what it was for a long time. It happened to be ice breaking. We think another sound is also ice but we don't know for sure. Ice is so loud you can hear it all the way across the sea. One that I can't remember what its called is like a car horn going loud and then quiet and loud and quiet. It's still going today but is getting quieter. That sound is still a mystery.

More Rocks to Climb on and We Love Animals

The highlight of the week for me, was taking the kids to the Fiery Furnace, which you can read more about here.  We also found some other big rocks for the kids to climb on while we explored another trail.

 As far as the rest of the week goes...

The Fiery Furnace!

It's true, we took our kids to explore Utah's largest furnace- The Fiery Furnace in Arches that is. Cliffs, rock scrambling, crawling under things, jumping over crevasses, squeezing between fins, if you followed along our homeschooling journey, you'll know crazy hikes like this is familiar territory.