Currently Reading *Anyone Can Homeschool* by Nicki Truesdell

 I've never read the books written by Nicki Truesdell, but after listening to her podcast, "The Nicki Truesdell Podcast," I decided to read Anyone Can Homeschool.  It's available on Kindle Unlimited, to which I have a subscription.  Her other book, Home Sweet Homeschool: Gentle Moments of Encouragement for Christian Homeschooling Mothers is also available on Kindle Unlimited and is my next planned read.

Here's a link to her book: https://nickitruesdell.com/anyone-can-homeschool-the-book/

Here's a link to her podcast: https://nickitruesdell.com/podcast/

So far, I am enjoying her book Anyone Can Homeschool.  It's a good introduction to home education for new homeschoolers.

Homeschool Day 2/4

 We're still struggling with an illness, so we're not quite finishing things like we normally do.

Bible

• The Action Bible
• Action Bible Anytime Devotions
• My First Hymnal - "O Lord Throughout These Forty Days"
• We went over the church calendar again

English

• Spelling Workout D
• Voyages in English 6 - adjectives

Math

• He listened to the Musical Multiplication app (from the Good and the Beautiful)

Medieval History

• Mapwork and activity from the Story of the World 2 Activity Guide
• We finished Stories of Beowulf Told to Children

Science

• Exploring Creation with Astronomy - Venus

Reading

• My Side of the Mountain

Homeschool Day 1/29

 We did our subjects a bit backwards today.

Latin

• Minimus chapter 2

Artist/Composer Study

• Cimabue - we looked at several of his paintings
• John Dunstable - we listened to his piece "Quam pulchra es" - which was pretty amazing

Reading

• My Side of the Mountain
• Independent reading

Medieval History

• Stories of Beowulf Told to Children

English

• Voyages in English 6
• Spelling Workout D

Math

• BJU Math 5 - long division with large numbers

Homeschool Day 1/28

I realized that we were already about a week ahead in our schedule, so I'm slowing down a bit.

 Bible

• The Action Bible - Samuel

English

• Spelling Workout D

Math

• Musical Multiplication app
• We worked with fractions and fraction rods on the dry erase board
• BJU Math 5 - prime factorization

Medieval History

• Story of the World 2
• Stories of Beowulf Told to Children

Science

• Exploring Creation with Astronomy

Reading

• My Side of the Mountain
• Independent reading

Homeschool Day 1/27

 Bible

• The Action Bible Anytime Devotions
• The Action Bible

English

• Voyages in English 6
• Spelling Workout 

Math

• He is not understanding the way BJU Math 5 is teaching fractions, so I had to get the dry erase board out and teach fractions with fraction rods

Medieval History

• Story of the World 2
• Stories Of Beowulf Told to Children

Science

• Exploring Creation with Astronomy - we finished Mercury

Reading

• My Side of the Mountain

Latin

• Minimus 1

Homeschool Day 1/26

 Ice storm.  We're snowed in.  One kid in the hospital last week.  This was rough trying to get started back up with school today, but we did most of it.  We called it quits at math, though.  We couldn't bring ourselves to do math.  

Bible

• The Action Bible
• Action Bible Anytime Devotions
• My First Hymnal - we listened to "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light"

English

• Voyages in English 6 - he wrote a paragraph about his favorite animal
• Spelling Workout

Medieval History

• Story of the World 2 + Activity Guide
• Stories of Beowulf Told to Children

Science

• Exploring Creation with Astronomy - Mercury

Reading

• My Side of the Mountain (read-aloud)
• Independent reading

Latin

• Minimus 1

This Online Fraction Generator Saved My Life

https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/fractions/

The 10 year-old is struggling with fractions, improper fractions, mixed numbers, etc. He needs fraction manipulatives to solve the fraction problems in his math workbook.  I have fraction rods, but I needed a fraction manipulative that could do larger numbers.

So, I found this online fraction generator (free).  There's a small learning curve when first starting out.  But you can choose a rectangular shape or a circular shape, choose how many parts the shape is divided into and then shade in how many parts are in the numerator.  There's a pencil to scribe the fraction, do some quick addition/subtraction, etc on the whiteboard.

There's a fraction feature which tells you what fraction of the shape is shaded.  

You can even add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions with the calculator.

This online generator is going to be so helpful while I try to drag the 10 year-old through the daunting world of fractions.