Homeschool Day 3/1

Kindergartener

• Beginner's Bible 
• Explode the Code 1 - today he read a page of words and then copied the words on the page
• All About Reading - we built the words from the lesson with plastic letters and sounded them out
• Summer's Lab (Science) - the lesson on Amphibians - frog development cycle
• History/Geography - we read a page in the Children's Encyclopedia on Africa
• Read-aloud - I haven't been including these in my blog posts, but we cover these at night before bedtime

The DK Children's Encyclopedia.  We needed this for the Summer's Lab science curriculum, but after flipping through it, he absolutely fell in love with it.  I decided to take a Five in a Row break and use this encyclopedia to pull History/Geography from.  There weren't samples on Amazon, so I bought this book without seeing it.  I absolutely love this book for a 5 year-old!

https://www.dk.com/us/book/9781465462077-dk-childrens-encyclopedia/

13 Year-Old

• Mathusee Algebra - she watched the video lesson
• Language Lessons for the Secondary Child
• Free Reading from her book crate.  She's still working on To Kill a Mockingbird and I'm reading aloud Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• Apologia Anatomy
• German - we did this together

16 Year-Old (she just had her birthday)

• Mathusee Algebra 2- she also watched the video lesson
• Language Lessons for the High School Student - she's working on Descriptive Essay writing
• Apologia Biology
• Health - she did an activity where she researched the nutritional content of her favorite foods
• Scarlet Letter Unit Study

Scarlet Letter/Salem Witch Trials Unit Study

• Read a chapter of The Scarlet Letter
• Watched the History Channel's "The Mayflower"
• Read the Mayflower Compact and it's history
• Read Whatever Happened to Justice?
• Read The Fallacy Detective
• Artwork Viewed
• "The Puritan" sculpture by Saint Gaudens (Met Museum)
• "Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary" painting
• "Oliver Cromwell" painting by Robert Walker

Me

After the 16 year-old finishes the Scarlet Letter Unit Study, I don't have anything planned for her.  I'm planning to put together a large (and I mean like a YEAR-long) Steampunk Unit Study.  I'm wanting to include:

1. Steampunk literature - half classic/half contemporary
2. Physics and Advanced chemistry
3. Beginning Coding and/or Robotics
4. History of science during the Industrial Revolution, with maybe science biographies of famous scientists

It's going to take me a couple of months to get this idea going...plus I need to plan for the 5 year-old.

Registration for the homeschool enrichment center has started, so I am busy planning outside activities for the fall and sports, etc.  

I finished the Martin Luther biography by Martin Marty.