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

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

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