Homeschool Day 3/10

 Kindergartener

• Attempted to read the Reader (All About Reading 1).  For some reason, he can not read the Reader.  I'm going to put it away for awhile and switch back to BOB Books and Explode the Code.  There's something about the Reader.  If he sees a word written in sidewalk chalk or spelled out with plastic letters, he's able to read it.  Once the word is part of a sentence in the Reader, he can't do it anymore.  I think his brain needs to tread water and develop a bit more before we start reading stories in books.  Explode the Code is working well - I'm just going to focus on that.
• Summer's Lab (Birds) - we checked our homemade bird feeder made from peanut butter and seeds.  They completely ate all the seeds and you can see the imprint from their beaks in the peanut butter, which was REALLY cool for him!  We also found a small bird egg in the grass, so we looked at that.  It must have fallen out of the nest or blown out by the wind.  Or maybe the birds threw it out - I don't know.  But, it was cracked.  
• https://www.homesciencetools.com/product/sea-life-shell-pack/  He spent some time this morning looking at the creatures from the Sea Life Pack with a magnifying glass.  
• P.E. with our homeschool friends

13 Year-old

• Gospel of John
• Algebra review page - getting better, but I cringe every time she forgets how to convert a fraction to a decimal
• Language Lessons for the Secondary Child - dictation of an Emily Dickinson poem
• Book Basket reading
• She read To Kill a Mockingbird and I read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• German together
• Mystery of History 4 - The Dominion of Canada
• P.E. with our friends

16 Year-old

• 2 Samuel
• Algebra 2
• Language Lessons for the High School Student - dictation
• Biology Lab - we looked at a sponge (a real one)
• ACE Health - Calcium lab
• P.E. with our friends
• Scarlet Letter Unit Study
• Read The Scarlet Letter
• Read Whatever Happened to Justice
• The Fallacy Detective
• Paintings from the Puritan time period
• "Thomas Anguish, Mayor of Norwich"
• "Cotton Mather" by Peter Pelham (we also discussed who Cotton Mather was)
• "Increase Mather" by John van Der Spritt