Weekly Report

I think we've had a very productive week. We were able to get most, if not all, of our assignments done. I think the nice weather earlier in the week was a great motive for getting schoolwork done. 

Pokemon King's Accomplishments:

HISTORY

• King Charles and his 'Cavaliers' or 'Royalists' fighting against the 'Parliamentarians' or 'Roundheads'
  
• Pocahontas
  
• The life of William Shakespeare

SCIENCE

• Cyrus McCormick & the invention of the Reaper
  
• Pressure in soda cans

GEOGRAPHY

• Marco Polo-These are 2 activities from the book:

Weaving

Chinese Mask

LITERATURE

• Parables From Nature-The General Thaw
  
• Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat (this is set during the time of King Charles)
  
• Pilgrim's Progress (we've recently decided to drop this-we will start it up again next year with an easier version-we both need to brush up a little more on vocabulary before we tackle this version again!)
  

LANGUAGE ARTS

• finished punctuation: quotations, apostrophes, commas
  
• wrote a book report (without a lot of fuss, too!)
  
• starting prepositions
  
• poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (some are really good, but others are really hard to follow)
  

MATH

• fractions, circumference, volume, proportions (I know it seems all over the place, but right now they are basically brief introductions)
  

Dinodude's Accomplishments

HISTORY

• King Charles and his 'Cavaliers' or 'Royalists' fighting against the 'Parliamentarians' or 'Roundheads'
  
• Sir Philip Sydney & The Ungrateful Soldier from 50 Famous Stories Retold
  

SCIENCE

• Burgess's Bird Book, which uses real birds to make up stories-after (sometimes during) we look up the birds to see what they look like & also find out a little more about them
  

GEOGRAPHY

• Paddle to the Sea-the story of a handmade wooden boat, traveling along the waters
  

LITERATURE

• Aesop's Fables-The Lion, the Bear & the Fox and The Hares & the Frogs
  
• King of the Golden River-just finished up 
  
• Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp-the version we read has very little in common with the Disney movie!
  

LANGUAGE ARTS

• prepositions
  
• writing a letter
  
• addressing an envelope
  

MATH

• multiplying by 10, 100 & 1000; making change from $1.00; area of a rectangle; negative numbers on a number line; finding missing dimensions of a rectangle
  

Rocket's Accomplishments

Explode the Code-he varies between 1 and 7 pages each day. Right now we are on the second book, studying 'n' and he's doing such a great job! He concentrates so hard when he makes his letters.

FOR ALL: 

MUSIC

• Composer Gustav Mahler-Symphony 9
  
• Piano lessons have drastically improved-I'm giving their lessons on Friday and they are practicing every day!

ART

• Vincent Van Gogh-The Night Cafe

Pokemon King's painting of The Night Cafe

Dinodude's painting of The Night Cafe

Rocket's painting of The Night Cafe