Homeschool Day 3/22

 Kindergartener

• Beginner's Bible - story of Ruth and Naomi
• Explode the Code - I could only get him to write one word, which was fine
• DK Children's Encyclopedia: we read the entry on Asia and searched some of the animals online
• Summer's Lab - we read Day 1 about Insects, did the coloring page and then watched some videos about preying mantises and different species of ants
• Follow Finn: A Search and Find Maze Book - I happened to pick this up at the library last week.  It's similar to Where's Waldo.  It gives you a riddle and then you have to find the item/items it talks about in the riddle.  He LOVED this.  We did most of the book in one sitting.
• Ballet class

13 Year-Old

• Gospel of John
• For math, she's taking a break and working through a book called: You Do the Math: Solve a Crime.  It walks you through a crime scene and you have to do various math word problems to solve the crime.
• Languages Lessons for the Secondary Child
• Free Reading from her book crate - she's finished most of her books now
• She read To Kill a Mockingbird - I read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• Anatomy & Physiology - the respiratory system
• Ballet class

16 Year-old

• 2 Samuel
• Algebra 2 video
• Language Lessons for the High School Student
• Biology reading and Lab - we observed a Planarian under the microscope - located its eyespots, intestines and pharynx.  Our planarian looked like it was winking.
• She read a short bio of Albert Einstein
• Scarlet Letter Unit Study
• Read The Scarlet Letter
• Read a short bio of Jonathan Edwards
• Read the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
• Wrote a short narration about the sermon
• Whatever Happened to Justice
• The Fallacy Detective

College Students

The college students actually had a very busy week.  

The freshman registered for all of his classes for the summer semester.  He's taking New Student Orientation, Kinesiology, Speech and American Music.  By the time August rolls around, he'll already have 8 credit hours.  He tried to register and we found out that they did not receive some of his paperwork, so we resubmitted it (ALWAYS do things early when it comes to college, because things go wrong, they lose paperwork, etc).  Their website crashed when he was trying to register.  He was up until 2am trying and then gave up and we registered the next morning.  He also had to take a long learning assessment that told him his strengths and weaknesses, what kind of learner he was, etc.  I now need to take him to the campus and get his ID and he wants a college hoodie (lol).  A couple of weeks before class starts, I need to get his books.

The sophomore met with her advisor and was told that she qualifies for the Chancellor's Scholarship at the private university about 10 miles from our house.  It's 3 years of tuition covered by the scholarship.  

She is also thinking about changing her major to horticulture with a business emphasis and opening her own nursery, so she is going on campus this morning to talk to her teacher about going into that field, instead of nursing.  I honestly hopes she changes her major.  I think she would be happier and she would be a great business owner.