Week 16

MATH
Caleb complete Lesson 12 in math this week.  The lesson taught adding doubles: 3+3, 4+4, 5+5, and up to 9+9.  Throughout the exercises he memorized many of the facts he learned, and also practiced his skills of adding 8's and 9's.  Today he took the Lesson 12 test, getting all the answers correct.

LANGUAGE ARTS
Caleb worked on word endings including ILL, IM, and IN, writing and reading words that had the endings.  He wrote sentences with words he learned.  Today, he read aloud a short story about fishing that had lots of IN words in it.  When he was done he went "fishing" for words that were written on many fish-shaped pieces of paper.  I would read aloud a sentence and he would spot a word from the sentence I read on a paper fish and then retrieve it with a "fishing pole" (a magnet on a string).  He really liked this game and afterward drew an underwater picture with lots of sea life and the sentence "The fish swim and swim."  (It is a little hard to see it amongst the illustration.)

Caleb has been enjoying listening to The Burgess Bird Book for Children where every chapter talks about a different bird amongst a happy forest of bird friends.  "I like hearing about the birds that make their nests in different places; one nest was in a cow print on the ground!"  We have also been reading from a Dr. Suess collection. 

SCIENCE and S.S.
Before the winter break, Caleb had been working with Washington state maps.  This week, he moved on to U.S. maps.  He put together a puzzle of the U.S., becoming more familiar with the names of the states and seeing how much they differ (some states border oceans, some have mountains, some are large, some are small, etc.)  Caleb drew an outline of the U.S. and colored in the bodies of water including the oceans and the Great Lakes and some of the states, including his home state and a few of the other western states.  He could find his home on his map and when he colored Oregon he realized, "I've been to TWO different states!"  The size of the U.S., and his own size in comparison seemed to really be sinking in!

We also began looking at world maps.  I read a story about harp seals and we spent time looking at where in the world the harp seals live, what other animals live in the arctic, and how different life is for those that live near the poles. 

ART
In art class, the students did some work with fabric and fiber.  They are learning how to tie and braid material and make different things out them.  They are working on making bags.  Caleb also did some painting.

P.E.
Over the weekend, before the weather turned cloudy and snowy again, Caleb spent a few sunny afternoons snowshoeing.  It was a fun way to exercise and Caleb never got tired of being able to move easily over the snow.  Here he is, having got much farther than the rest of us.