Homeschool Day 6/30

 Reading

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Math

• Saxon 6/5 - rounding

History

• The Whipping Boy

Science

• Apologia Astronomy
• We started the geosphere project
• The layers of the Earth

German

• We watched some introductory German videos from YouTube
• We watched SpongeBob in German

Art/Music

• One Hundred Great Paintings

Homeschool Day 6/29

 Bible

• The Action Bible - more Kings of Judah

Reading

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• The Wild Robot

Math

• Saxon 6/5 - polygons

English

• Spelling Workout F
• Writing with Ease 3 - dictation
• Building Language - from Royal Fireworks Press
• Practice Island - from RFW Press

History

• Story of the World 2 - the Crusades
• The Whipping Boy

Health

• Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys

Homeschool Day 6/23

 Reading

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Math

• We played the math board game Adsumudi

Science

• We started Apologia Earth Science and the Notebooking Journal
• We started with Lesson 3, because we just did an entire Astronomy text, so I didn't want to cover that a second time

Foreign Language 

• Names of animals
• Der, die and das
• You are/I am

Art and Music

• We listened to more de Palestrina (Kyrie)
• He worked on a water color painting
• We looked at paintings in One Hundred Great Paintings

Extras

• Karate class
• Boy Scouts

Homeschool Day 6/22

 We finished schoolwork at 1:30 today, which was a bit of a long school day, but that included lunch.

Bible

• The Action Bible - still working through 2 Kings

English

• Spelling Workout F - this is shamefully challenging me
• Writing with Ease 3 - he did a written narration
• Building Language (from Royal Fireworks Press)
• Practice Island (RFWP) 

Math

• Saxon 6/5

Reading

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• The Wild Robot

History

• Story of the World 2 - the Crusades
• The Whipping Boy

Health

• Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys

Homeschool Day 6/18

 Bible

• The Action Bible - Jezebel dies

Reading

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• The Wild Robot

Health

• Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys

Science

• Apologia Astronomy - we completely finished this today.  We'll start Earth Science on Monday.

Art and Music

• Watercolor Painting - this is our first day trying this out.  I bought a palette of watercolors and a book of mixed media paper
• We listened to "Sicut Cervas" by Giovanni de Palestrina

Homeschool Day 6/17

 Today went sooo much better than yesterday.  He also finished and received his Tenderfoot rank for Boy Scouts.

Bible

• The Action Bible - more Elisha and Jezebel stories

English

• We finished Grammar Island (from Royal Fireworks Press) and we started Building Language (the vocabulary book) and Practice Island.  I was floored at how well he could pick apart the parts of speech in Practice Island.  This English program is excellent!
• Spelling Workout F
• Writing with Ease 3 - poetry

Math

• Saxon Math 6/5 - we finished the fractions/percents investigation

Reading

• Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• The Wild Robot

History

• Story of the World 2 - the Samurai
• The Whipping Boy

Health

• Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys
• We are going to jog the indoor track at the gym

Homeschool Day 6/16: Trying to Survive the School Day

 After his karate class this morning, the 11 year-old turned his brain off and never turned it back on again.  So, we did not make much progress this morning.

Math

• Saxon Math 6/5 - we did the fractions investigation, but only finished half due to his temporary insanity

Reading

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (read-aloud)
• The Wild Robot

Science

• Apologia Astronomy - galaxies and black holes, which our school day was suctioned into

Extras

• Karate class - which apparently prohibited him from remembering what 12 divided by 3 was, among other things
• Boy Scouts