Thursday, August 27, 2026

Homeschool Day 8/27

 Bible

  • The Action Bible - we finished the Old Testament
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
  • Spelling Workout F
Math
  • Saxon 6/5 - Investigations - we learned about different types of charts, tallying, etc
Science
  • Apologia Earth Science - we took different soil samples from around the neighborhood and looked at them under the microscope

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Homeschool Day 8/26

 Reading

  • 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
History
  • The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
  • Story of the World 2 - The Black Death
Extras
  • Duo Lingo German
  • A playdate with his friend
  • Confirmation Class

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Homeschool Day 8/25

 Science

  • Apologia Earth Science - we worked on weathering - physical, chemical, biological
Health
  • Are You What You Eat?
Art and Music
  • We worked on violin a little bit
Extras
  • Karate Class
  • Boy Scouts 

Monday, August 24, 2026

Homeschool Day 8/24

 We were doing great until about 11am and then he became a tornado with bombs in it.  Here's what we did today:

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
  • Spelling Workout F
Math
  • Saxon 6/5 - two step word problems
History
  • Story of the World 2 - the Black Death
  • The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Art & Music
  • The Good and the Beautiful Drawing I - we started using tracing paper and it was very interesting.  We've never used tracing paper before.
  • Violin lesson at the music school

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Homeschool Day 8/20

 Bible

  • The Action Bible
Reading
  • Where the Red Fern Grows
  • The Wild Robot
Language Arts
  • Spelling Workout F
  • The Good and the Beautiful Cursive 6
  • The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts 6 - we did the lily art project with pastels
Math
  • Saxon 6/5
Science
  • Apologia Earth Science - we learned about dirt and looked at samples under a microscope

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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

Monday, August 17, 2026

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 8/27

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