Homeschool Days 3/30 & 3/31

 Kindergartener

• Lots of reading - probably 4-5 picture books a day
• Playing at the park 
• P.E. today - we played baseball for PE.  We worked on catching, throwing and batting skills
• He went to an Easter egg hunt at church and his Wednesday night class at church

13 Year-old

• Gospel of John
• Algebra
• Language Lessons for the Secondary Child
• Free reading
• To Kill a Mockingbird and Mrs. Frisby
• Apologia Anatomy - reading from the text
• History 
• video: "Brutal Execution of the Romanovs"
• video: "The Revolution that Shaped Russia"
• movie depicting life around WWI: Legends of the Fall (we fast forwarded the Brad Pitt love scenes 😬)
• Group discussions during the two days we watched the videos and movie
• trench warfare
• mustard gas
• the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Austria-Hungary and its alliance with Germany
• Prohibition
• the draft 
• the murder of the Romanov's - also specifically talked about the daughters
• Ballet 
• Confirmation class at church
• P.E. - baseball
• EasterNow app - following Jesus' activities during Holy Week in real time

History was very productive this week for both teens.

16 Year-old

• 2 Samuel
• Algebra 2
• Language Lessons for the High School Student - I'm, once again, getting pushback from this kid, because the program is too easy.  This time, she wrote an essay on how to write a really bad essay - it was an instruction guide.  She's asking to do more creative writing, so after we finish this batch of stuff, it's time for more creative writing, I guess.
• Apologia Biology - reading all week about spiders and other arachnids
• German together
• History 
• video: "Brutal Execution of the Romanovs"
• video: "The Revolution that Shaped Russia"
• movie depicting life around WWI: Legends of the Fall (fast forwarded the Brad Pitt love scenes)
• Group discussions during the two days we watched the videos and movie
• trench warfare
• mustard gas
• the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Austria-Hungary and its alliance with Germany
• Prohibition
• the draft
• the murder of the Romanov's - also specifically talked about the daughters
• Communism
• Scarlet Letter Unit Study
• Read Scarlet Letter
• Whatever Happened to Justice
• The Fallacy Detective
• Viewed The Mayflower Collection from the Pilgrim Hall Museum
• "The Mayflower on Her Arrival in Plymouth Harbor"
• "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth"
• Ballet
• Youth Group at Church
• P.E. - baseball
• EasterNow app - following Jesus' activities during Holy Week in real time

Here is the EasterNow app:  https://easternow.com