Homeschool Day 8/19

 Bible

• The Action Bible - Esther

Language Arts

• Spelling Workout F

Math

• Saxon 6/5

History

• Story of the World 2 - Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible
• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

German

• DuoLingo

Science

• Apologia Earth Science - sedimentary and metamorphic rock
• We looked at samples of each type of rock from our Rock Collection Kit from Home Science Tools

Health

• Are You What You Eat?

Extras

• Received his Tenderfoot rank at the Boy Scouts' Court of Honor
• He is starting Confirmation Class at church tonight

Homeschool Day 8/17 - Added some new things

 After the break, we changed our schedule a little and added private violin lessons with a teacher.  We will also start our little co-op on September 18th.  I will be teaching from BJU Press' 7th Grade Life Science (with lab manual) and the other mom will be teaching Health.

Here's what we finished today:

Reading

• The Wild Robot
• Where the Red Fern Grows

Language Arts

• Spelling Workout F
• The Good and the Beautiful LA 6
• The Good and the Beautiful Cursive 6

Math

• Saxon 6/5 - boy, we did not do well with this today.  He couldn't concentrate.

History

• Story of the World 2 - The Rus
• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

Art/Music

• The Good and the Beautiful Drawing I
• Violin lessons

Homeschool Day 7/30

We will probably take next week off from school, since we are preparing for our daughter's wedding.  Also, we're almost halfway through sixth grade math and the public schools haven't even started back yet, so it would be ok if we took a break.  We won't fall behind.

Bible

• The Action Bible

Reading

• The Wild Robot
• Where the Red Fern Grows

Language Arts

• The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts 6
• The Good and the Beautiful Cursive 6

Math

• Saxon 6/5

Science

• Apologia Earth Science
• We looked at igneous rocks from a rock and mineral kit that I bought from Home Science Tools.  We looked at the rocks under a magnifier.  These included pumic, basalt, granite, scoria, etc.

Homeschool Day 7/29

 Reading

• The Wild Robot
• Where the Red Fern Grows

Language Arts

• The Good and the Beautiful LA 6
• The Good and the Beautiful Cursive 6
• Spelling Workout F

Math

• Saxon 6/5 - measuring centimeters, millimeters, inches

History

• Story of the World 2 - China and the Forbidden City
• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

German

• Continuing DuoLingo

Homeschool Day 7/28

 Bible

• The Action Bible - Daniel and Belshazzar

Math

• Saxon 6/5 - adding and subtracting mixed numbers

History

• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

Science

• Apologia Earth Science with Notebooking Journal - we looked at causes of mountains and earthquakes

Health

• Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys

Homeschool Day 7/27

 Reading

• Where the Red Fern Grows
• The Wild Robot

Language Arts

• The Good and the Beautiful LA 6
• Spelling Workout F
• The Good and the Beautiful Cursive 6

Math

• Saxon 6/5

History

• Story of the World 2
• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

Art and Music

• The Good and the Beautiful Drawing 1
• We listened to several pieces from Michael Praetorius (late 1500s)

Homeschool Day 7/23

 Bible

• The Action Bible - Daniel

Reading

• Where the Red Fern Grows
• The Wild Robot

Language Arts

• The Good and the Beautiful LA 6
• The Good and the Beautiful Cursive 6
• We're trying out the spelling from The Good and the Beautiful.  It's free online.  I think he needs a break from Spelling Workout.  I think I need a break from Spelling Workout.

Math

• Saxon 6/5 - shorthand long division, adding and subtracting fractions

Science

• Apologia's Earth Science - we are really struggling with the "make a globe" project.  I probably should have skipped this project.  We're trying to add the continents and the material I used for the globe is not holding ink or paint.  I tried printing out continents and glueing them on the globe, but the glue isn't sticking either.

Health

• Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys

History

• The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn