Drew's poem for this week was titled Never Give Up and talked about the birds not giving up if they fall, or the trees that come through a storm - they grow strong. It was encouraging us not to give up, but to keep trying & going in life.
Drew's illustration of his poem shows a man running along a path holding his water bottle, a tree growing tall and baby birds learning to fly complete with little marks to show "action" which was something he learned recently.
Drew has learned about grams/kilograms this week for math. It's hard learning about g/kg when we measure in oz/lbs. here...oh well, he'll be all set for whenever we make the switch to the metric system. Ha! Seems like it's been 20+years coming as I remember my teachers saying the same thing to me in school when we learned about g/kg. 
We had to find something that weighed a kilogram. A can of green beans and a package of butter was the closest we could come. He compared this weight to the weight of a pair of shoes and 5 textbooks to complete part of his math paper on Thursday.
He read about the pilgrims finishing the work on the common house and how they framed it with wood beams. Here he's assembling a frame of straws...
He drew the common house for his timeline...
Today we read the story of The Mitten over lunch. It's a cute story about a boy who loses one of his mittens, animals find it and crawl inside....lots of animals go into it, even a bear! D&K enjoyed watching the illustrations as Jan Brett always gives a hint of what's to come on the far right of each picture. They were calling out what animals would get into the mitten next before I even turned the page. :o) We also read a few facts about the animals featured in the book from our Animals encyclopedia. Drew was especially interested in the Hedgehog since that is what animal "Sonic" is - one of his Wii games that he plays often.
Kate had two activities to go with the story I had printed awhile ago from homeschool share's website. She cut out the animals...
Then put them in the mitten I sewed from fleece (she was upset it wasn't white as in the story, oops!)...
All the paper animals fit! She even "rolled" the paper skunk so he could fit in the thumb as he did in the story. :o)
She enjoyed matching up the animal prints with the animals. We had read another book about animal tracks after reading The Mitten. We saw quite a few last week in the woods and have see several in our backyard this week...
Drew correcting sentences for his grammar lesson today...I wrote them incorrect and he had to correct them with a capital letter and correct punctuation. He did well!
To go with Kate's Bible story abotu Ruth today, she glued pieces of rice to brown stalks (she drew with brown crayon) on paper.
One complete, a few more to go. I didn't get a picture of the completed project...but she did finish it and they look like little wheat stalks.
Schooling is fun, but I'm always thankful for the weekend! Have a good one!
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