Another good week. I feel like N. has really found his groove and is really enjoying his days (other than the rare frustration with math). This week he had lots of drawing and was back with the painting so that made him very happy.
He and S. both did paintings again this week for poetry.
In Science he started reading "Plant Life in Field and Garden". He did an experimet looking at how plants get nutrients. He did a good job of doing the experiment by himself. He put one stalk of celery in sugar water and one in plain water. Today he tasted the leaves and discovered that the ones in sugar water were sweet, especially the stems of the leaves.
In Storytime we continue to read "Archimedes and the Door of Science". This book is a big hit. He enjoyed telling his Dad all about how an Archimedean screw works.
In History he drew a Greek Soldier using the directions in Draw and Write Through History". Again I was impressed by how careful he was to follow all the step by step directions for drawing. This is a huge improvement over last year.
For his history project he made a scytale message and then acted out Phidippedes run from Athens to Sparta. He ran a mile and then we told him that he would have to run 150 of those for it to equal the run from Athens to Sparta.
After the thread on the HOD board about oral narrations we worked on capturing the authors voice when he narrates. He does better if he acts it out. Written narrations are still very much a work in progress, but he is showing improvement with oral narrations.
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