Homeschool Day 1/18

Kindergartener

• Read Beginner's Bible together - another story of Abraham and Sarah
• Workbook page from Kindergarten Math with Confidence
• All About Reading - we used plastic letters to build and sound out the words from the story he's reading next in the Reader

Five in a Row - Mirette on a High Wire

We read the book Mirette on a High Wire and did a few of the activities in the teacher's guide.  We stretched a tape across the carpet and had the Kindergartener practice walking across the "tightrope".  We also talked about practicing something that's difficult in order to get better at doing that task.  

He had ballet class and played on the playground afterwards.

13 Year-old

• Ugh - algebra.  Algebra with decimals and fractions...triple ugh
• Language Lessons for the Secondary Child - this was dictation from a letter George Washington wrote to his wife
• Sequential Spelling
• I read aloud, she read from her book crate
• Mystery of History 4 with Timeline Figures - we read about the Trail of Tears
• German together
• Ballet class

15 Year-old

•  Algebra 2 - one more workbook page on dinomial theorems and that's enough.  We're never going to use that in our lives.  I don't even remember those being on the ACT
• Sequential Spelling - we're almost finished with level 6 and after that, spelling is getting a bit ridiculous.  She thinks she is a bad speller and requests to do spelling, but I think her spelling is fine.  I don't see any reason to waste any more time on spelling at this point.  She spells better than I do
• Read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and wrote a character sketch of Huck Finn.  She wrote a good, full page about Huck Finn's character and his reactions to moral dilemmas
• Read biography of Lincoln
• Biology - read from the text
• Latin
• Art Appreciation - continued the chapter on 19th century art in Gardner's Art Through the Ages 
• Ballet class

Me

I finally finished the book of Matthew (I'm reading the Bible from cover to cover).  I started the first six chapters of the Gospel According to Mark.  I also read the historical background info on who wrote the book of Mark.  I actually really like the directness in this book.  I think this is one of my favorite books of the Bible.