'18/19 Weeks 7 and 8

This is the cats' IMAX. They love to lounge on top of our new bookcase and watch the goings on outside. For us, the bookcase means more organized and streamlined school day. 

       Nothing notable has happened in two weeks. Kind of boring, yes, but very productive at the same time. Kids have been busy doing their school assignments, going to their various extra-curricular activities, and caring for all the family pets. Somehow, they carved out time to play with friends as well. 

Our constant study companions.

LA. Learning about hard news articles and feature articles.

There's a whole generation growing up getting their news from other sources but newspapers. We dedicated a whole class to just looking at the newspaper getting to know its different parts. 

The kids chose their favorite articles for analyzing.

And then, they wrote their own straight news and feature articles.

Science. Andrew made a grabber -- a balloon filled with sugar would mold itself around an object and make it easy to lift the object.

Lifting a bottle with the grabber.

LA. A short geography review in our language arts class -- we went over all the states, their locations, and capitals.

Science. An experiment that did not succeed. Andrew did his best to build a robotic arm, but it did not work out this time. We might try it again (with Mom's help this time) as soon as we have some time.