HOT is the word to describe our week.  The lovely weather from last week has turned into 95+ degrees every day.  We look for shady spots outside to do our schoolwork, and hope that a breeze comes our way.  Here's a bit of the fun and learning that went on this week:

Smiley reviews the letter he has learned, adding them to his drawings in his lesson book.  This week he learned D and drew the door of a house into a big D. 

Both the boys loved the Beatrix Potter story we read this week, The Pie and the Patty Pan.  Caleb chose to write a made-up poem about the story, in addition to writing about Jolly Robin and practicing the consonant blend FL.

For the number 2, Smiley made a picture of the moon (on the left) and the sun (on the right).  Throughout the week, he was on the lookout for other things that come in pairs.

Caleb's math lesson was about number sequencing.  He did a page in his workbook everyday and then took his test.

This week's stories and legends from around the world were from Mali, Africa.  Caleb's is getting better at reading a world map.  We always locate the countries we are reading about on a globe before starting the lesson.

We continued to feed and observe the ants we captured last week.  Caleb's writes or draws about his observations in his science notebook.

Smiley got to experiment with making colors and mixing water and he drew a picture about it.

The boys also swam at the Colville pool this week, played at the park, made art (pictures, jewelry, paper airplanes) with friends to sell on their sidewalk, swam at the (nice and cold) Chewelah creek, created designs out of toothpicks and beans, read and read, swam at Lake Roosevelt, and lots more!  (Did I mention we're trying to keep cool?)